The Lone Star Policy Institute joins fifteen other organizations representing taxpayers, consumers, and free market advocates across the nation in strong opposition to proposals to change substantive antitrust standards that encourage courts to break up and destroy American technology companies. You can read the letter here.
The Lone Star Policy Institute joins the Alliance on Antitrust and other advocates in providing a statement regarding HJC Antitrust Proposals. You can read the letter here.
While government struggled mightily to steer us through the coronavirus pandemic, the free market got to work. Popular culture most often portrays businessmen and the corporations they head as greedy and ruthless. A lightly regulated free market and the profit motive, we’re told, inevitably leads to the exploitation of workers and consumers. Through Hollywood’s lens, government is far more virtuous…
For the past several years, conservatism has battled an identity crisis. Fundamental questions surround the Republican Party’s commitment to its own principles. Now, in the wake of a presidential electoral loss and a final defeat at the hands of the conservative-majority Supreme Court, we hear unserious and reckless calls for secession, rather than a gracious admission of defeat or a willingness…
The Lone Star Policy Institute unequivocally rejects the notion suggested by Texas GOP Chair Alan West that the state of Texas should secede from these United States. On Friday December 11, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously denied the frivolous lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought an injunction preventing the selection of presidential electors…
For centuries, people have been fleeing governments that limit their freedoms and moving to countries, or to less regulated areas within their own nations, that afford greater freedom. For many years, the U.S. had an open door to those immigrants. That door is no longer quite so open. One reason is that some immigration opponents believe immigrants will import the…
America’s large successful tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Apple are facing heightened scrutiny from federal and state officials. Increasingly, populists from both the left and the right are calling for the break-up and structural reorganization of America’s tech companies based on misguided notion that big is bad. In addition to a recent spate of highly partisan congressional…
Texas Innovation Regarding “U.S. hits Google in antitrust suit,” (A1, Oct. 21): The recent antitrust lawsuit against Google, joined by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, misapplies antitrust law and threatens Texas’ burgeoning tech sector. The proper standard for antitrust law is preventing consumer harm. It is difficult to argue Google causes harm to consumers when search is free and the cost of…
Some immigration opponents claim that immigrants import bad institutions and policies from their country of origin into their new home country. We argue just the opposite—namely, that immigrants are more likely to self‐select into countries with better institutions than those in their home countries. Researchers have examined this issue in both a cross‐country and within‐country context. Their findings have been mixed.…
When people can work wherever they want, where do they choose to live? And perhaps more importantly, where do they choose to leave? Traditionally, decisions about where to live have been closely tied to decisions about where to work. If you got a job in Phoenix, you head to Phoenix. COVID-19-related workplace disruptions caused many companies to move all or…