Tonight’s results send a clear message: even in arguably the most liberal city in the state, New Mexicans don’t have the appetite to pay higher taxes. This was the same out-of-touch agenda that Santa Fe lawmakers tried to jam through when they passed a $350 million tax increase – including raising the price of gas.…
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Pope Francis Mistakes Libertarianism as Radical Individualism
In a recent statement to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences entitled Towards a Participatory Society, Pope Francis spoke critically of libertarianism by name. “I cannot fail to speak of the grave risks associated with the invasion of the positions of libertarian individualism,” warned the Holy Father. Throughout the memo, Pope Francis refers to libertarianism as a…
Crib Sheet: April 28th, 2017
We must reform the gross receipts tax. It’s one of the worst in the country. Having a gross receipts tax instead of a sales tax, that scares businesses away. – Governor Martinez in remarks Thursday at the annual meeting of the New Mexico Tax Research Institute announcing that tax reform will be part of the…
What powers the U.S. electric grid of the future?
The Trump administration’s well publicized push to roll back President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s grid study intended to boost coal, are not going to revitalize the coal industry. The evolution of the U.S. electric grid from baseload coal plants to more renewable energy is not so much due to a…