Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan How Obama blew his opportunity. BY Noemie Emery August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 When he signed the health care reform bill earlier this year, Barack Obama gave progressives the prize they had aimed at for seven-plus decades, an event they compared to the […]
AUGUST 8, 2010 Richard Foster for President Medicare’s chief actuary vs. President Obama on the ObamaCare facts. There probably isn’t a worse job in Washington than Medicare trustee, unpaid Capitol Hill interns included. Every year the trustees issue the gravest warnings about entitlement spending and at best prompt a moment of brow-furrowing before the political
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Why I’m Not Hiring When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Canada, Land of Smaller Government Its corporate income tax rate is 18% and falling. America’s is 35%. By JASON CLEMENS When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Unpresidential President Barack Obama has managed a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature. BY James W. Ceaser August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 From charisma to populism—this is the slippery slope down which Barack Obama has been sliding over the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lone Economic Star What the rest of the country can learn from Texas. BY Eli Lehrer August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 Austin On the 80-mile drive from San Antonio to the Texas capitol in Austin, it’s difficult to miss the signs of growth. At every highway exit,
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Ryan’s ‘Roadmap’ Krugman’s detour on ‘Roadmap’ to solvency By Paul Ryan Aug. 7, 2010 |(85) Comments Related Coverage Paul Krugman: Ryan’s plan is a fraud; the math doesn’t work Paul Ryan: Krugman’s detour on ‘Roadmap’ to solvency Despite watching European welfare states collapse under the weight of their own debt, those running Washington are leading
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RAHN: Abolish state income taxes Statistics show they retard economic growth By Richard W. Rahn – The Washington Times July 19, 2010 Did you know there are nine states that have no state income tax? The non-income-tax states (see accompanying chart) are geographically and economically diverse, ranging from the state of Washington in the Pacific
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AUGUST 7, 2010 The World Drills On There’s no ban in Norway, Brazil, Australia, Canada . . With reason to hope that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is being brought under control, it’s time to start thinking into the future. The Obama Administration is sticking by its ruinous deepwater drilling moratorium,
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AUGUST 7, 2010 Democrats Against ObamaCare The 1099 repeal fiasco, and the Snooki tax. This wasn’t a good week for ObamaCare, with Missouri voting to repeal the law and a Virginia judge refusing to dismiss a serious Constitutional legal challenge. Unlikely as it sounds, however, the repeal movement even came to include House Democrats. To
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