NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-28-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, January 28, 2010 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Taxes ECONOMIC AND FISCAL EFFECTS OF THE ESTATE TAX The economy, the pretax and post-tax incomes of workers, savers, and investors, and federal, state and local revenue would all be higher if the estate tax was eliminated, says Stephen J. Entin, President and Executive Director of the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Federal Spending & Budget Issues THE SPENDING "FREEZE" THAT ISN'T High taxes are clearly bad for the U.S. economy, says Edward P. Lazear, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2006-2009 and a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Hoover Institution fellow... WALL STREET JOURNAL Global Warming CREATING A CLIMATE OF FRAUD The U.N.'s panel on climate change reports should be neutral with respect to policy, say observers... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Unions UNIONIZED GOVERNMENT WORKERS Collective bargaining gives government employees the power to tell voters how to spend their tax dollars instead of the other way around, says James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Federal Spending & Budget Issues PBS SHOULD BE CUT The idea that public broadcasting must be preserved to give access to the arts and education to the disadvantaged is a romantic myth, say observers... WASHINGTON TIMES About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. NCPA Events David M. Walker - Friday, January 29, 2010 David M. Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller of the United States, will discuss his new book Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility Mitt Romney - Thursday, March 18, 2010 Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and former Republican Candidate for President of the United States, will discuss his new book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness Connect with the NCPA on: Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2010 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved