by Brad Galbraith | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog
In a recent post, 1889 Institute expounded on the fiduciary duty of elected officials “to act in the best interest of the people of the state as a whole,” a “high duty, executed as a public trust … wherein one puts the people’s interest above one’s own.” This...
by Tyler Williamson | Sep 30, 2020 | Blog
Imagine that someone forcibly takes your hard-earned money and then simply gives it to a multi-billion dollar corporation such as Home Depot, Wal-Mart, or Boeing. You receive no benefit from this forcible redistribution of wealth, and the sole beneficiary is the...
by Tyler Williamson | Sep 30, 2020 | Research
Policymaker’s Guide to Evaluating Corporate Welfare Authors Tyler Williamson, Spencer Cadavero, and Byron Schlomach Abstract This paper describes what constitutes corporate welfare and what does not. It describes specific questions policymakers should ask in order to...
by Spencer Cadavero | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog
Largely buried under the constant barrage of COVID-19 news and the baffling decision by the Supreme Court to declare half of Oklahoma “Indian Country,” was Oklahoma’s and Tulsa’s attempt to bribe Tesla to locate a new facility in that city. Tesla chose...
by Mike Davis | Nov 6, 2019 | Blog
One January, a farmer decided to invest in the stock market. He’d had a bumper crop, and he wanted to shore up his financial future, planning for the time when providence would not be so kind. Knowing he wouldn’t have time to watch the market during the growing...
