…of Texas’s low taxes and tort reform? Setting aside for a moment the fact that Texas’s tort laws have little effect on lawsuits for injuries from their products in other…

…national issues in general or health-care reform in particular. But it makes it similarly hard to argue that the state is firmly opposed to health-care reform, or that Scott Brown’s…

…for their own profits. Those were clearly not the target of Sen. Hatch in his favored tax “reform.” So what did he say about tax reform? Let’s see. 1) The…

…2009 Heath Care Reform– Looking at the Glass Half-Full What Has Been Accomplished; What Still Must Be Done These days, many progressives are expressing deep disappointment with the health reform…

…I can safely and for sure tell you that food labeling is approved by the USDA and or the FDA. A small change in a label or packaging such as…

…Lower Healthcare Costs?” Tom Baker answers questions in the NYT Health Section. Tom Baker made the following observation on medical malpractice reform: “Because it’s (tort reform) a red herring. It’s…

…of an oil company and other mega-corporations. —- *Correction, Oct. 2: The statute is known by two names: The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA)….

…that the lower appellate court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, decided. The issue is whether under the Alien Tort Statute, which was enacted in 1789 and allows “aliens” to…

…endorsed the Bradley-Kemp Tax Reform Bill. That bill later evolved into the famous Tax Reform Act of 1986. The concept of the Tax Reform Act was to promote simplicity and…

…reform. Oddly there seems to be almost a consensus that welfare reform was a good policy. I think this is based entirely on the fact that, by pure coincidence, it…