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Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) is a constitutional and free market advocacy organization. Visit us online at https://xitter.cf/t.co/LwOGMzn9MH.

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Britain's Socialist Catastrophe Offers Preview for American Voters cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Britain's Socialist Catastrophe Offers Preview for American Voters

As Americans approach our own pivotal election next month, Democratic candidates across the nation either openly embrace socialism or adopt its tenets without publicly acknowledging it. ... As...

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$2 Trillion – and No Excuse cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

$2 Trillion – and No Excuse

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of...

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"Medicare is already scheduled to run out of funds in about seven years; this Medicare for All plan ensures the program runs out of money in two to three years." -@StephenMoore cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Medicare for Nobody

The bill to create Medicare for All has a multitrillion-dollar price tag. Medicare is already scheduled to run out of funds in about seven years; this Medicare for All plan ensures the program runs...

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With more than 130 federal broadband programs operating across 15 different agencies, there’s little justification for imposing new broadband taxes through USF reform. Doing so would be counterproductive and duplicative - and at a time when consumers are struggling to make ends meet.
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🧵Hearing concerning rumors that a draft USF reform bill in Congress would impose new taxes on broadband and mobile lines. Hard to imagine the idea of raising consumer Internet prices getting meaningful bipartisan support with such strong opposition from conservative groups.
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Unions: Americans Profess to Love Them, But Few Want to Join One cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Unions: Americans Profess to Love Them, But Few Want to Join One

Nothing in American life illustrates the vast chasm between what I say and what I do better than abstract approval of labor unions versus actual willingness to join one.

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"Politicians can legislate lower prices; they cannot legislate away scarcity, other costs or risks." -@veroderugy cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Judge the 'Populist' Push for Price Controls on Populist Grounds

Most Americans apparently agree on at least one thing. Unfortunately, it's something dangerous: price controls.

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"Protecting vaccine access and preserving personal choice are not competing principles — they are part of the same responsibility." Read more from President Jeff Mazzella in @dcexaminer: tinyurl.com/5fe9jsny

Washington must not limit access to childhood vaccines

The new federal childhood vaccine schedule limits access instead of expanding choice. States and Congress must reject it outright.

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Interview: IP Protections Critical for America’s Economic Success - To kick off #IntellectualPropertyMonth, @Council4IP's Coke Morgan Stewart joined #IPProtectionMatters to discuss the Constitutional foundations of IP protection, patent myths, China, and much more. ipprotectionmatters.org/epis…

IP Protections for Scientific Discoveries and Innovations Critical for America’s Economic Success

Coke Morgan Stewart, President and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), and a Former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent...

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Three Easy Ways to Reduce Pain at the Pump cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Three Easy Ways to Reduce Pain at the Pump

I checked with the experts at the Institute for Energy Research on a plan to lower gas prices, and here's the plan that would repeal the excessive regulation and taxation of gas and diesel.

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In a new episode of the IP Protection Matters podcast, Coke Morgan Stewart, C4IP president and CEO and former USPTO deputy director, sat down with host Renee Giachino to discuss the PREVAIL Act, patent myths, U.S.-China competition, and much more. 🎙️ Listen here: ipprotectionmatters.org/epis…

IP Protections for Scientific Discoveries and Innovations Critical for America’s Economic Success

Coke Morgan Stewart, President and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), and a Former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent...

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"The idea that all this debt won't bring a reckoning may sound tempting, but it's questionable at best." -@veroderugy cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

'When Will Markets React to Debt?' Is the Wrong Question

Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way.

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"[B]efore the Constitution included the First Amendment or any other among the Bill of Rights, and even before it establishes a federal judiciary, its text empowers Congressional protection for the IP of inventors, authors and other creators." #IPMonth cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

October Is National Intellectual Property Month

Throughout our history, and continuing today, America leads the world in IP protection. While we may no longer lead the world in free markets, we continue to lead the world on IP. And that’s precis...

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Diesel Export Ban: A Simplistic Proposal That Would Backfire cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Diesel Export Ban: A Simplistic Proposal That Would Backfire

Simply put, America has become a more important supplier into a stressed global market, and removing American diesel from that market won't eliminate global demand, it will simply reduce supply....

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Al Gore's Inconvenient Lies cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Al Gore's Inconvenient Lies

It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient – for Al and his band of apocalyptics.

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A diesel export ban would interfere with the market precisely when energy markets are under extraordinary stress. Diesel is a globally-traded commodity, and its price is ultimately determined by market forces—not government mandates. @AmerComm @consumerpal American Energy Leadership Institute @ForFreeMarkets @AFPhq @taxreformer @C3SolutionsNews @CFEconomy @CFandP @CFIFonline @ceidotorg @ConservAmerica @CASE_forAmerica @ConsumerChoiceC @FamBizCoalition Frontiers of Freedom @HispLeadFund @IPI Main Street Foundation @MarketInstitute @MtnStatesPolicy @PelicanInst @RioGrandeFndn @SBECouncil @southwestpolicy @Protectaxpayers @JoinYoungVoices
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"Although decades of constantly failing doomsday predictions demonstrate that the climate-industrial complex won’t police itself, perhaps if more people recognize the folly and stop listening, they’ll finally be shamed into greater humility and scientific objectivity." cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Where Have All the Hurricanes Gone? New York Times Concedes Climate Alarm Flop

Newspaper headlines sometimes employ such delicious phraseology that additional commentary seems almost unnecessary. In this particular case, the New York Times headline read, “Where Are All the...

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Americans Are Right: Inflation Is Not Just the Fed's Problem @veroderugy cfif.org/v/index.php/comment…

Americans Are Right: Inflation Is Not Just the Fed's Problem

Inflation hasn't gone away – it's going up. With the midterm elections seven weeks off, that's a problem for the president and Congress.

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Our president Tiger Joyce joined @CFIFonline to discuss how profit motive — rather than justice — is driving lawsuits with big paydays for plaintiffs lawyers. 📢 Listen now! cfif.org/v/index.php/freedom…

Regulation by Litigation: “Where are the Legislators?”

Sherman “Tiger” Joyce, President of the American Tort Reform Association, discusses the rise of “regulation by litigation,” how policy should be developed and enacted by elected lawmakers and not...

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According to a new @expandbroadband report, 79% of locations initially eligible for BEAD funding have already been resolved. @NTIA would do well by taxpayers to ensure the evolving BEAD program continues to refocus on truly underserved and unserved areas. broadbandexpanded.com/posts/…
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