FEF's Official Statement on Renewable Energy
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The Foundation for Economic Freedom wrote a letter to clarify their position on renewable energy in the Philippines. They state that while they support renewable sources like geothermal and hydro, they oppose the current Feed-in-Tariff petition that would force consumers to pay double or triple the price of conventional energy through surcharges. They also oppose awarding renewable energy projects without competitive bidding. The FEF takes the position that they support renewable energy when it is economically efficient and not exploitative of Filipino consumers.
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FEF Statement on Mass Civil Registration and A National ID System
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FEF Congratulates President Elect Rodrigo Duterte
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Fef position on lowering income tax rates
The Foundation for Economic Freedom is a non-profit organization with a board of advisers and trustees that advocates for lower personal income tax rates, adjustments to tax brackets, and alignment of corporate tax rates with other ASEAN countries. They support recent moves in the House and Senate to pass legislation lowering taxes. Lower taxes are needed for fairness, equity and competitiveness since inflation has pushed many into higher tax brackets and the country has the highest individual and corporate tax rates in the region. The organization also supports identifying progressive and simple compensatory revenue measures for the government.
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SPEECH ON PROMOTING INCLUSIVE GROWTH: FIVE ARROWS FOR ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH
AIM SGV HALL AIM CONFERENCE CENTER
August 3, 2015
Five arrows for inclusive growth
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FEF Statement of Support for Charter Change on Lifting Economic Restrictions
We, the Foundation for Economic Freedom, support the ongoing deliberation at the Lower House on the Resolution of Both Houses No. 1 (RBH1) or the Belmonte Resolution, which seeks to amend the restrictive economic provisions of the Constitution.
Building an Inclusive Democracy
Presented during the FEF Fellows Monthly Meeting for April by Dr. Ron Mendoza. The results are as follows: poverty entrenches political dynasties; education appears to have no bearing on political dynasties; and the media affect only the largest political dynasties. There is less evidence that political dynasties bring about poverty.
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- 1. Foundation for Economic Freedom, Inc. January 30, 2012 LETTER TO THE EDITOR, PHILIPPINE STAR In the January 29 issue of Philippine Star, the columnist Federico Pascual in is column Why the 0bjections to Renewable Energy? seemed to imply that certain specific individuals are responsible for the Foundation for Ecnomic Freedom’s position against the current Feed-in-Tariff petition of Renewable Energy Developers before the Energy Regularatory Commission. For the record, Mr. Ramon del Rosario Jr. and Mr. Delfin Lazaro serve in the Board of Advisers and are not in any way responsible for the official positions of the Foundation for Economic Freedom. The official position of the FEF is adopted by members of the FEF board. Thus, no single individual, particularly Mr. Ramon del Rosario and Mr. Delfin Lazaro, who are not members of the FEF Board, is responsible for the position of FEF. For the record too, the FEF is NOT, repeat, NOT against Renewable Energy. The FEF is not against renewable sources like geothermal and hydro, whose generation cost are competitive with traditional sources of energy. The FEF is also not against the use of renewable energy in off-grid areas, where the avoided cost of using diesel is high and it makes sense to use RE sources like solar. What the FEF is against is forcing Filipino consumers to pay twice the cost of conventional energy from wind and more than three times the cost of conventional energy for solar by way of a forced surcharge on Filipino power consumers. This surcharge will be paid for by Filipino consumers for twenty years even if the cost of technology goes down to guarantee a rate of return of 17 percent per annum to RE developers. 303 Philippine Social Science Center (PSSC) Commonwealth Ave., Diliman, Quezon City Telefax: (632)4532375 (Main Office) Tel. No. 8939602 (Accounting) www.fef.org.ph / Follow us on Facebook & Twitter (RPeconfreedom) Email: fef@fef.org.ph or fefphilippines@gmail.com
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