Support the Stop PPE Taxes Act, S. 4497
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor the Stop PPE Taxes Act, S. 4497, introduced by Sen. Pat Toomey…
FreedomWorks’ Member of the Month for February 2020: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)
FreedomWorks is proud to honor Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) as our member of the month for February 2020. Representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate since…
Restoring the Balance of Powers: The Constitutional Role of the Legislative Branch
Download FreedomWorks’ new issue brief, Restoring the Balance of Powers: The Constitutional Role of the Legislative Branch. Over the past century, the Legislative Branch has ceded many of its…
The USMCA is a Bad Trade Deal, But It’s Not All Bad
As the newly-negotiated trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) came to light, pundits and politicians rushed to process what the re-negotiation of the North American Free…
A TPA-Style Rundown of TPP and TTIP
In true D.C. form, a series of acronyms regarding trade have erupted onto center stage. Although it seems these terms just popped onto the scene, the efforts behind each have…
The Real Cost of the Auto Industry Bailout
Today, Politico’s Arena featured an online debate over the results of the automobile industry’s bailout. Many of the contributors have hailed the bailout as a success due to the…
A Widening Trade Deficit: Something to Worry About?
Last Wednesday, the Department of Commerce announced that the US trade deficit has grown for the second consecutive month. In April alone, the US imported $29.2 billion worth of…
Unfree Trade
From the FT today: No one should forget that all countries rely on open trade to feed their populations. But we are already seeing actions at the national level,…
Made in China: Free trade helps all
Did you grow your own sugar? Did you build your own laptop? Maybe, but odds are you didn't. You almost certainly traded money for sugar and your laptop. We buy…
Globalization and You
Tuesday, the House is expected to vote on HR 3920: The Trade and Globalization act of 2007. Like George Costanza deconstructing the word manure, the innocuous title belies the…