REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 30, 2010 President Obama today signs his nationalization of the college student loan market, which will put the Department of Education directly in charge of doling out cash to students and colleges. It’s one more plank in the cradle-to-grave entitlement state, but this landmark is also a good moment to recount […]
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Democrats threaten companies hit hard by health care bill By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent March 28, 2010 Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles (Susan Walsh/AP) Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has summoned some of the nation’s top executives to Capitol Hill to defend their assessment that the new
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OPINION MARCH 26, 2010 ObamaCare: Repeal, Replace or What? Editor’s Note: We asked five opponents of government-directed health care for their thoughts on our new health-care entitlement. Specifically: Now that ObamaCare is law, how should Republicans respond? Should they work to repeal some or all of it, and do they need to offer an alternative
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 27, 2010 The ObamaCare Writedowns It’s been a banner week for Democrats: ObamaCare passed Congress in its final form on Thursday night, and the returns are already rolling in. Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what
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MARCH 27, 2010 ‘Basically an Optimist’—Still Gary Becker By PETER ROBINSON Stanford, Calif. ‘No, no. Not at all.” So says Gary Becker when asked if the financial collapse, the worst recession in a quarter of a century, and the rise of an administration intent on expanding the federal government have prompted him to reconsider his
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New York Times March 21, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Arlington, Va. ON Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower
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Feeding the deficit’s appetite WASHINGTON As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 ObamaCare Day One Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let’s see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away. Even before President Obama signed the bill on Tuesday, Caterpillar
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the
Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. Congress health care vote: a dark day for freedom in America By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: March 22nd, 2010 138 Comments Comment on
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