Jon Sanders, Author at The Locker Room

Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.

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How can the US lead the world in producing oil and gas AND reducing CO2 emissions?

Hasn't everything we've been told over the past two decades said that those were impossible? Weren't we under the impression that those things worked in opposition — that we'd have to choose between one or the other?

Jon Sanders, February 21, 2020
UK studies: Plug-in hybrids emit up to three times more CO2 than advertised

The case for EVs to curb climate emissions (let alone mitigate hurricanes) is too weak for Gov. Cooper to force. Worse, the trend of research makes them seem much more likely to have negative unintended consequences.

Jon Sanders, February 17, 2020
Cooper: Hey, corporations getting nearly $100 million in incentives aren’t asking me for a tax cut

You see it, don't you? The flaw in Cooper's reasoning is glaringly obvious. Media don't, however.

Jon Sanders, February 14, 2020
Cooper continues to choose the wrong combo of corporate welfare and taxes

Gov. Roy Cooper's policies on corporate taxes and corporate welfare can seem confusing at first. In January, he continued his befuddling practice of approving millions of dollars to individual corporations while complaining about corporate tax cuts.

Jon Sanders, February 12, 2020
Regulatory capture, the hidden cronyism

The captured regulator is a pernicious failed safeguard against cronyism that cloaks corruption in the guise of government oversight.

Jon Sanders, February 11, 2020
Forcing a 20th century model of collectivism on NC’s gig economy?

The act would try to enforce a 20th century model of collectivism on a different world. In the name of enriching and empowering unions, it would disrupt untold numbers of mutually beneficial relationships between entrepreneurs and companies in North Carolina.

Jon Sanders, February 7, 2020
Bernie Sanders shows why you don’t shut down nuclear

A "phase out" of all nuclear power plants in America is a part of Sanders' climate plan. It's a colossally bad idea. For that matter, so is banning hydraulic fracking, and Sanders recently introduced legislation to do just that.

Jon Sanders, February 6, 2020
The wild card in modernizing liquor sales in NC

How do we get around artificial problems created by a needlessly complex state/local government hybrid system set up to control alcohol sales that, after the fact, became attractive to state and local government to deliver monopoly revenues?

Jon Sanders, February 3, 2020

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Director of Regulatory Studies

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