The Calvert Institute for Policy Research
The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan, educational institution dedicated to the research and propagation of solutions to Maryland state and local public-policy concerns based upon the principles of free markets and personal responsibility. It is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.
The institute is named for George Calvert, founder of the Maryland colony, and the author of its experiment in freedom of conscience. The institute seeks to replicate his vision of a Maryland where a diversity of views is encouraged and disseminated.
Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsGov. Palin's pension partyGeorge W. Liebmann 2009-11-02 This writer has long taken an interest in Maryland's pension funds. Recently, while investigating the adventures of Gov. Martin O'Malley, who recently acquiesced in the removal of any percentage limit on the compensation of hedge fund managers, I came upon pension fund adventurism in Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska.Maryland's state and local pension coffers seriously underfunded, study finds George W. Liebmann 2008-10-30 ROCKVILLE, MD—The Maryland Public Policy Institute in Rockville, MD, and the Calvert Institute in Baltimore, MD, have released a joint evaluation of state and local retirement benefits: "Passing the Buck: Maryland’s Unfunded Liabilities for State and Local Retirees," authored by Gabriel J. Michael and George W. Liebmann.Pensions dig us deeper into debt George Liebmann 2008-09-28 When one is in a hole, it is usually sound practice not to dig deeper. Maryland is in a very large hole deriving from its habit of paying its employees with future benefits rather than current salaries. Governors and county executives of both parties have made promises, the bills for which do not fall due until the politician in question has left office or ascended the next rung of the ladder. The result is huge liabilities and an immobile work force too many members of which are serving time until their benefits fall in.Here's how to get real political change George Liebmann 2008-07-21 In the presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama supports nourishing bureaucracies and union clients, while Republican John McCain denies needs and fails to provide efficient ways of satisfying them.The 2008 General Assembly Session: An Intellectual Vacuum George W. Liebmann 2008-03-23 Consideration of the work of the 2008 General Assembly causes one to recall the observation of Gertrude Stein: "There's no there there." The Governor proposed an essentially nonexistent legislative program, having run out of ideas in his second year, after having raised almost every available tax except the two most obvious candidates for increase: the gasoline tax and the alcoholic beverage tax.Missing Issues George W. Liebmann 2008-01-30 Americans in both parties report themselves uninspired by the current crop of Presidential candidates. Yet Americans know that significant domestic problems are unaddressed: that the public high school system is a disaster area; that the savings rate is nonexistent, being discouraged by over-liberal credit and justified fear of eventual inflation; that transportation infrastructure is deteriorating; that both local and national policies favor sprawl development and the mismanagement of public lands; that families with young children are under great economic pressure, while the elderly are the darlings of the tax and benefit systems; and that police, prison, and judicial bureaucracies are ever-expanding.Move Beyond School Voucher Fantasy to Focus on Real Reforms George Liebmann 2008-01-06 The recent, ringing defeat of a referendum on school vouchers in Utah - generally thought of as America's most conservative state - should be a wake-up call to critics of our public school system. The proposal failed for several reasons apart from the might of the teachers unions. Chief among these is that it was perceived as a solution in search of a problem: an effort by a group of doctrinaire conservatives to sell an intellectually tidy "free market" panacea without taking the trouble to first convince the electorate that schools, and particularly high schools, have serious flaws. |
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