JULY 11, 2011 Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . . Obama wants $1 trillion in taxes on top of what he’s already signed. So the fondest Washington hopes for a grand debt-limit deal have broken down over taxes. House Speaker John Boehner said late Saturday that he couldn’t move ahead with a $4 trillion deal […]
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JULY 11, 2011 Relying on unelected bureaucrats, such as ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board, to ratchet down Medicare price controls won’t control overutilization. By MERRILL MATTHEWS AND MARK LITOW Almost all discussions about Medicare reform ignore one key factor: Medicare utilization is roughly 50% higher than private health-insurance utilization, even after adjusting for age and
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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July 10, 2011 By John C. Goodman John C. Goodman is president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a free-market think tank established in 1983. Goodman’s ideas on health policy can also be found at his own blog, where he provides daily analysis and lively discussion on a wide range of health
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Isn’t that the morally decent thing to do? Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future. July 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 41 The problem with
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lead? President Obama would prefer not to. Fred Barnes June 27, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 39 We’ve had strong presidents and weak presidents, skillful presidents and incompetent presidents, mediocre presidents and just plain poor presidents. Barack Obama stands alone as the first president who simply declines to lead. On
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Medicare? Thanks, but no thanks. Jeff Bergner June 27, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 39 In a few months my wife and I will turn 65 years of age. I guess we’re the proverbial grandpa and grandma that our political leaders aim to protect. Our mailbox has been full lately
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July 1, 2011 by Donald Rumsfeld EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Our country has taken an ax to our national security budget—both the Defense Department and the intelligence community—after every war of the 20th century. And every time we later regretted it. Defense spending is now 19% of federal outlays and declining. This is the lowest
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