Departing Dems: What to do After You Lose Your Seat
November 17, 2009 | 02:08 PM | 1 Comment
Some suggest that it will be a political liability if Democrats don’t pass health care reform. But maybe passing health care reform would be even worse.
After all, If I were a...
read more »The Best We Can Get: Support H.R.3905
November 15, 2009 | 04:31 PM | 0 Comments
Americans for Tax Reform sent the following letter today to Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX):
On behalf of Americans for Tax Reform, I am pleased to support H.R. 3905, “The Estate Tax...
read more »White House Wages War on Free Speech
October 24, 2009 | 07:44 PM | 5 Comments
It should go without saying that freedom of speech is an essential part of any democratic state. The freedom to criticize the government, to say what you think and feel, and to truly engage in the...
read more »Healthcare Bill Breaks Obama's Oft-Repeated Promise on Taxes
October 22, 2009 | 01:22 AM | 3 Comments
Over and over again, President Obama has promised not to raise “any form” of taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year. Yet, the U.S. Senate is getting ready to consider a...
read more »Government Healthcare: Everyone is Equal, Some More Equal Than Others
October 20, 2009 | 01:16 PM | 10 Comments
Government run healthcare - the promise of equality for all! Everyone is equal, universality for all!
In reality, of course, it doesn't work like that. Like in George Orwell's masterpiece...
read more »Cap and Trade: Price Controls Don't Exist in a Rational Market
October 18, 2009 | 01:35 AM | 3 Comments
Prices play a crucial role in a market economy and history has shown that any attempt to artificially manipulate prices has disastrous effects. Prices send signals to producers and consumers about...
read more »"Stimulus" Job Numbers Greatly Exaggerated
October 17, 2009 | 06:42 PM | 3 Comments
The first batch of recipient reports have been uploaded to Recovery.gov, and media headlines are now saying that the $16 billion so far tallied (more data is to be uploaded by the end of...
read more »White House Spins Redistribution Scheme as Tax Cut
October 12, 2009 | 04:43 PM | 3 Comments
President Obama’s White House blog team reports that “President Obama’s aims (sic) to restore fairness to the tax system by providing the Making Work Pay tax cut to 95 percent of...
read more »Soviet Defector Provides a Lesson in Government Run Healthcare
October 05, 2009 | 08:09 PM | 1 Comment
Yuri N. Maltsev, who previously worked as an economist on Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reform team before defecting to the United States, wrote recently on the ultimate government run healthcare...
read more »Government Intrusion Threatens Future Technological Innovation
October 04, 2009 | 03:23 PM | 2 Comments
Only a week after President Obama’s newly-appointed FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced his plans for government regulation of the internet, a study by the network planning consultancy...
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