NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-7-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Thursday, January 7, 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! Global Warming COPENHAGEN'S DODGED BULLET There could have been significant damage to many nations' economies if the global warming alarmists' full agenda had been adopted at Copenhagen, says Pete du Pont, a former governor of Delaware and current Chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis... ONLINE JOURNAL Taxes COLLEGE FOOTBALL VERY TAXING Seven college bowl games received more than $21.6 million in government aid between 2001 and 2005, according to Mark Yost, author of "Varsity Green"... CATO INSTITUTE Taxes THE BAILOUT BOWL It is a poke in the eye to bailout-fatigued taxpayers that a government-owned corporate failure continues to blow money on a largely irrelevant football game, says financial analyst Tad DeHaven... CATO INSTITUTE Trade Issues FREE TRADE LEAPS IN YEAR OF TIGER While the Obama administration has put its energy into trade wars with China, free trade is marching on without the United States, say observers... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Taxes WHY TAXING STOCK TRADES IS A REALLY BAD IDEA The exchange and hedging of business interests is a virtuous and utterly essential activity in a free economy, say Donald L. Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics LLC, and Chris Hynes, chief executive officer of Hynes Capital... WALL STREET JOURNAL Government Issues PLAYING FAVORITES Politicians should not be allowed to use economic development as an excuse to build their own careers as favor-grantors, say observers... MACKINAC CENTER 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. 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