HERITAGE.ORG Economic Freedom on the Wane By Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. Ed Feulner is president of the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) January 15, 2013 “Land of the free.” It’s right there in our national anthem. As well it should be — the personal liberties we enjoy are the envy of many around the world. Freedom […]
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The Health of America Is Not About Government By Gov. Bobby Jindal – January 25, 2013 By Gov. Bobby Jindal Remarks by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, N.C., January 24, 2013. Thank you all for having me here tonight. And thank you Reince for the outstanding
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January 24, 2013 The RomneyCare Bill Comes Due Deval Patrick proposes a huge tax increase on the middle class. The health reform that Mitt Romney passed in 2006 in Massachusetts presaged President Obama’s, and its results are showing what we can expect nationwide. The latest warning comes in a huge new tax increase proposed
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January 14, 2013 E-Filing and the Explosion in Tax-Return Fraud Identity-theft cases rocketed to 1.1 million in 2011 from 51,700 in 2008. The IRS has a backlog of 650,000. By JAY STARKMAN Mr. Starkman, a practicing certified public accountant, is the author of “The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and
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January 11, 2013 Rivkin and Casey: The Myth of Government Default The Constitution commands that public debts be repaid. There is no such obligation to fund entitlement programs. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: …..since the federal government’s roughly $200 billion in tax revenue per month is
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January 5, 2013 There’s No ‘I’ in ‘Kumbaya’ Obama doesn’t seem to have it in him to make a deal. By PEGGY NOONAN We’re all talking about Republicans on the Hill and their manifold failures. So here are some things President Obama didn’t do during the fiscal cliff impasse and some conjecture as to
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January 4, 2013 Strassel: The Debt-Ceiling Fight Will Be Dirty The GOP thinks it will win, but the party’s strategy is far from clear. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Question three: What other hostages are Republicans willing to see shot? Knowing he has lost his tax trump card, Mr. Obama seamlessly
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER January 2, 2013 by Tim Carney http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-how-corporate-tax-credits-got-in-the-cliff-deal/article/2517397#.UOVlQuTO3De The “fiscal cliff” legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren’t the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff’s edge —
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January 3, 2013 Henninger: Repealing Reagan After trying for 25 years, the Left finally unwinds the Reagan tax legacy. By DANIEL HENNINGER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Amid the seven growth years of the Reagan presidency, a who’s who of great American companies was born. In Barack Obama’s first four years, the number is about
January 2, 2013, David Malpass: Nothing Is Certain Except More Debt and Taxes The Senate fiscal-cliff bill still means higher taxes on every working American. So much for just going after ‘the rich.’ By DAVID MALPASS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: No wonder many House Republicans balked at what was presented. The New Year’s Day
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