JANUARY 31, 2011, 7:36 P.M. ET Don’t Just Cut Government, Reinvent It Across-the-board reductions will not improve efficiency. By LOUIS V. GERSTNER JR. The hottest topic in Washington, D.C., and many state capitals is cutting the cost and size of government. Understandably so—we are living way beyond our means, and the future of our nation […]
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JANUARY 27, 2011 Congress’s inquiry commission is offering a simplistic narrative that could lead to the wrong policy reforms. By BILL THOMAS,KEITH HENNESSEY AND DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Today, six members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—created by the last Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis—are releasing their final report. Although the three of
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 27, 2011 Milton Friedman warned that government spending cancels out higher-return private investment. By STEPHEN MOORE Words matter in politics, which is why the federal government no longer “spends” (and wastes) money, but rather “invests” it. According to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, nearly every penny of the $2.5
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JANUARY 22, 2011 ‘The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.’ By JASON L. RILEY Devon, Pa. ‘Sometimes I sarcastically, perhaps cynically, say that I’m glad that I received virtually all of my education before it became fashionable for white
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JANUARY 22, 2011 Renewable energy’s state capitalists. One of the least edifying spectacles in American business is the sight of industry titans begging politicians for alms. We therefore direct your attention to today’s nearby letter from Rhone Resch, the solar industry’s man in Washington, for a classic of the genre. Mr. Resch more or less
JANUARY 21, 2011 It was hard under Ronald Reagan. It will be impossible under Barack Obama. By PAUL H. RUBIN How successful is the president’s recently announced deregulatory initiative likely to be? Based on my experience at two regulatory agencies (the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Product Safety Commission) during the Reagan years, I
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Founders’ spirit returns with Tea Party movement By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. The Washington Times January 5, 2011 New Year’s Day in Washington dawned gray, wet and cold. It was a perfect day for sightseeing, and so my wife and I decided to sightsee. We went to Mount Vernon, George Washington‘s home, named, incidentally, after
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Obama’s Rules Revelation The era of big regulation is over. Or is it? President Obama took to these pages yesterday to announce a new executive order to restore “balance” to federal regulation and root out rules that impede job creation and economic growth. If he means it, this will be one of
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a
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