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Trade barriers such as tariffs have been demonstrated to cause more economic harm than benefit. They raise prices and reduce availability of goods and services resulting in lower income, reduced employment, and lower economic output.
Rather than erect barriers to trade that will have negative economic consequences, policymakers should promote free trade and the economic benefits it brings.
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The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was agreed upon earlier in July 2018 by 192 countries. One was missing.
The United Nations on Friday [July 13, 2018] completed an agreement on improved ways to handle the global flow of migrants....it was boycotted by a huge and influential member, the United States.
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While the headlines are filled with terrible things, others like this never see the light of day. This is disgusting and I refuse to believe more than 5% of the country agrees with it.
The Interior Department on Thursday [July 19, 2018] proposed the most sweeping set of changes in decades to the Endangered Species Act, the law that brought the bald eagle and the Yellowstone grizzly bear back from the edge of extinction....
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Lost in the hyperspeed news cycle is this important and somewhat amusing story from last month about villain Kris Kobach. Score one for the good guys and girls for once.
A federal judge on Monday [June 18, 2018] permanently struck down Kansas's proof-of-citizenship voter registration law, handing down a blistering ruling against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the country's most vocal advocates of voter-ID laws.