September 24, 2011 Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON – In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for […]
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NEWS & OBSERVER Fri, Sep 16, 2011 Positively Ponzi BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it’s a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But these dividends don’t come from any profitable or
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Charles Krauthammer September 9, 2011 12:00 A.M. The 9/11 ‘Overreaction’? Nonsense America’s current demoralization is not a result of the War on Terror. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The total costs of “the two wars” is $1.3 trillion. That’s less than one eleventh of the national debt, less than one year of
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Bad Luck? Bad Faith? by Charles Krauthammer (more by this author) Posted 08/19/2011 ET “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.” — President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did
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NEWS&OBSERVER The grand bargain to be had By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group Published in: Other Views August 6, 2011 WASHINGTON Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so sure. There is a grand compromise to be had.
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NEWS & OBSERVER Fri, Jul 29, 2011 BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group Published in: Other Views WASHINGTON We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state. The
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IBD Editorials Best Debt Plan Would Shave A Half-Trillion By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Posted 07/21/2011 06:54 PM ET The debt ceiling looms. Confusion reigns. Schemes abound. We are deep in a hole with, as of now, only three ways out: the McConnell plan, the G6 plan and the Half-Trillion plan. • The McConnell essentially punts the
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NEWS & OBSERVER Sat, Jul 09, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road
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