I am told that at the recent CPAC 2020 gathering the President told a well-received joke aimed at the latest “Green” demands that we forgo dirty carbon-based energy and rely…
American Experiment is pleased to announce we are releasing a groundbreaking new study detailing the high cost renewable energy mandates in Minnesota. On the 2018 campaign trail, many DFL candidates,…
American Experiment has documented Minnesota’s vulnerability to reliance on wind turbines in the midst of the polar vortex. As policy fellow Isaac Orr put it, “when the cold got goin’,…
When I got home last night, I watched a local news clip reporting Gov. Walz’s “100 percent renewables by 2050” proposal. I was looking closely at the news anchors; would…
DFL Governor Tim Walz is making Mark Dayton look downright moderate. Just this morning the newly-elected governor held a press conference stating his goals for making Minnesota's electricity sector 100 percent…
Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment, released the following statement in response to Governor Walz’s Green New Deal: “Governor Tim Walz’s Minnesota Green New Deal is…
The good news is that the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that you’re rich.
Hello! In this episode of In the Tank, we talk about Medicare for All, the latest in the Green New Deal saga, solar panel waste, and American Experiment economist John Phelan joins the podcast…
The following article originally appeared in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. There have been many recent articles in The Daily Sentinel on Xcel’s new Colorado Energy Plan related to climate…
Hello! In this edition of the In the Tank podcast, Donny interviews Jonathan Williams from ALEC about his organization’s latest installment of the Rich States Poor States book. Minnesota does not fair…
Taxes are incentives. Change them, and you'll change behavior. Sen. Warren's assumption that 'the rich' will make no response to her wealth tax is completely unrealistic.
This video by our friends at the Clear Energy Alliance shows how the Green New Deal tracks closely with California’s disastrous high speed rail project that was just cancelled after…
A deadly cold front recently swept through the Midwest, but thanks to nuclear energy, coal and natural gas, things did not turn out as badly as they could have. Most people stayed…
Donny, Isaac, and Justin talk about how the Green New Deal saga gets even crazy, what would increasing top marginal tax rates to 70 percent accomplish, California's failed high-speed rail,…
The Green New Deal (GND) has become the talk of the down despite the fact that Ernie Moniz, the head of the Department of Energy under the Obama administration, has…
If 'the rich' are going to pay for everything then somebody had better be rich.
Hello! This week’s episode of In the Tank deals with the green new deal insanity, the abject failure of Panera Cares, and stadium subsidies (hint, it’s not great for MN).
And it's a spending problem, not a revenue problem — making proposals like "Medicare for All" or a "Green New Deal" even more worrisome.
To borrow from P. J. O'Rourke, the good news is that, according to Sen. Warren and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according…
One of the great myths of public finance is that politicians can help themselves to more of their citizens' income simply by raising tax rates. The historical record shows that…
The Wall has become the epicenter of the federal government shut down but judging from the GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for it, it doesn't seem to be much…
Curious to learn more about the so-called "Green New Deal?" My friend Justin was on Tucker Carlson Tonight on January 8th to talk about it.
Hello all! I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to be a co-host of the In the Tank Podcast, which examines the work of Think Tanks throughout the…
One of the great myths of public policy is that politicians can help themselves to more money simply by raising tax rates. As the evidence shows, it ain't necessarily so.