The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by many of the nation’s most influential free-market and taxpayer groups, has sent to all members of Congress a letter warning about the adverse impact of anti-investment provisions in Senator Reid’s “Jobs” Bill.

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, joined by many of the nation’s most influential free-market and taxpayer groups, has sent every United States Senator a letter warning about the adverse impact of anti-investment provisions in Senator Reid’s “Jobs” Bill. The Coalition for Tax Competition letter highlights the inclusion of provisions taken from the “Foreign […]

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective.

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video examines anti-money laundering laws and finds that they are expensive and intrusive. These costs might be acceptable if the result was less crime, but this mini-documentary reveals that anti-money laundering policies are ineffective. As a former Reagan Administration official remarked, they undermine the fight against crime by misallocating law enforcement resources.

In a new “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), Izzy Santa of the Cato Institute uses school choice as an example to explain why competition is better than government-created monopolies. The video entitled, “Economics 101: School Choice Example Shows Why Government Monopolies Are Bad,” examines the data and notes that private schools produce better academic results at a lower cost than government-run schools.

This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is preferable to government monopoly.

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) uses Labor Department data to demonstrate that the first stimulus bill did not create jobs and explains why politicians, in spite of the data, want to enact another so-called stimulus proposal.

Labor Department numbers show that the Obama Administration’s $787 billion “stimulus” was a flop. Instead of holding the unemployment rate at 8 percent or below, the jobless rate soared to 10 percent. Now there is discussion of second so-called stimulus, which politicians are calling a “jobs bill.” But making government bigger, the video explains, is a recipe for long-run stagnation and lower living standards, regardless of what the policy is named.

Moral Hazard occurs when bad choices are subsidized. This video explains the dangers of Moral Hazards created by government intervention.