Regulatory Reform & Abuses
BPF believes in a free market society but the overreach of government regulation is stifling. BPF accesses regulatory policy with a view of reform to the overreach abuses.
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Off the Grid Puts Someone on the Hook
Mississippi has now seen the data center problem from three vantage points. From one end, Amazon cut a sweetheart deal — SB 2001 — that handed it access to Entergy’s grid while keeping the contracts secret from the ratepayers who will subsidize it.
Who You Gonna’ Believe?
“Who you gonna’ believe? Me or your lying eyes.” Substitute Entergy’s spokesperson for Chico Marx, and you have the current gaslighting telling you don’t believe what you see happening in other states and what common sense tells you will happen here. Just trust Entergy not to raise electric rates for small customers to benefit Amazon’s data centers.
Telemedicine Regulations and the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure
The Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure has largely been a protectionist group designed to protect the economic rights of physicians in the state and its reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed this view.