AUGUST 24, 2010 Virginia Is for Surpluses Erasing red ink without a tax increase. Here’s something you don’t see often these days: a government running a budget surplus. Governor Robert McDonnell announced last week that Virginia closed fiscal 2010 some $400 million in the black. That’s a radically improved financial picture from a year ago […]
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Frank Roche, economist, comments on issues and concerns of our day http://www.therocherecord.com
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MITT ROMNEY Grow jobs and shrink government By Mitt Romney | August 18, 2010 IT’S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn’t looked back. Private sector investment in new jobs and capital has languished. Even the head of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina
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ACCOUNTING 101 It seems like a miracle that our leader was able to convince BP to establish a $20 billion slush (oops, escrow) fund to compensate those hurt by the ongoing oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico . After all, he had no constitutional power to force them to do so; so had to
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AUGUST 16, 2010 The End of American Optimism By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages,
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HEUBUSCH: Remembering ‘Morning in America’ Tax cuts unleashed America’s renewal at home and abroad By John Heubusch – Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library The Washington Times July 28, 2010 Illustration: Reagan’s morning by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Over the eight years of the Reagan
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Why I’m Not Hiring When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Canada, Land of Smaller Government Its corporate income tax rate is 18% and falling. America’s is 35%. By JASON CLEMENS When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lone Economic Star What the rest of the country can learn from Texas. BY Eli Lehrer August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 Austin On the 80-mile drive from San Antonio to the Texas capitol in Austin, it’s difficult to miss the signs of growth. At every highway exit,
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RAHN: Abolish state income taxes Statistics show they retard economic growth By Richard W. Rahn – The Washington Times July 19, 2010 Did you know there are nine states that have no state income tax? The non-income-tax states (see accompanying chart) are geographically and economically diverse, ranging from the state of Washington in the Pacific
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