Rise of the global tax collectors Congress is giving international bureaucrats the power to intrude By Richard Rahn– Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth The Washington Times Monday, July 9, 2012 Illustration Global Tax by Alexander Hunter for The Washington […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Life of Henry Matthew Continetti July 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 42 In May, the Obama campaign unveiled its “Life of Julia,” a website detailing “how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime—and how Mitt Romney would change her story.” Julia is a composite character, the invention
ORLANDO SENTINEL Marco Rubio: Obamacare’s taxes punish individuals, small businesses By Marco Rubio | Guest columnist July 8, 2012 Since the Obamacare debate began in 2009, I have met thousands of real people impacted by this policy. One in particular has always stood out to me: restaurant owner Ben Pumo from Land O’ Lakes. When
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Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform Taxes that took effect in 2010: 1. Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per hospital if they fail to meet new “community health assessment needs,” “financial assistance,” and “billing and collection” rules set by HHS. Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971. 2. Codification of the “economic substance
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July 2, 2012 The Chief Justice’s ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth. The commentary on John Roberts’s solo walk into the Affordable Care Act wilderness is converging on a common theme: The Chief Justice is a genius. All of a sudden he is a chessmaster, a statesman, a Burkean
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Updated: Fri., Jun. 29, 2012, 4:16 AM Chaos, fury as Roberts fakes right & goes left By MICHAEL GOODWIN Last Updated: 4:16 AM, June 29, 2012 Posted: 12:43 AM, June 29, 2012 Weird, strange, infuriating. And maybe brilliant. Chief Justice John Roberts is either the most savvy person on the Supreme Court, or an odd
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May 26, 2012 Advice for a New President The counsel that Reagan received in November 1980 is still relevant today. Editor’s note: The following are excerpts from a Nov. 16, 1980 memo to President-elect Ronald Reagan from his Coordinating Committee on Economic Policy. Its title: “Economic Strategy for the Reagan Administration.” The memo describes an
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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May 15, 2012 McGurn: Jerry Brown vs. Chris Christie More states are realizing that the road to fiscal hell is paved with progressive intentions. By WILLIAM MCGURN In his January 2011 inaugural address, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared it a “time to honestly assess our financial condition and make the tough choices.” Plainly the choices
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May 14, 2012 By Warren Beatty Will Obama learn from Sweden? Will he learn from Canada? Or will he cling to the European socialist economic model that is currently failing? Sweden Anders Borg, Sweden’s finance minister, reduced Sweden’s deficit and created economic growth. There is one thing that Borg did: “Since becoming Sweden’s finance minister,
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