JULY 13, 2010 The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come. By BRIAN RIEDL President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting […]
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JULY 13, 2010 FDR, Obama and ‘Confidence’ Demonizing business deepened the Great Depression. The White House can learn from Roosevelt’s mistakes. By AMITY SHLAES What is confidence and why is it missing? The concept seems to be driving Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner crazy this summer. You can hear that when you listen to him talk
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JULY 13, 2010 U.S. Rebuilds Power Plant, Taliban Reap a Windfall By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 10, 2010 Lessons From the Swedish Welfare State New research shows bigger government means slower growth. Our country is a prime example. By ANDREAS BERGH AND MAGNUS HENREKSON Americans are debating whether to substantially expand the size of their government. As Swedish economists who live in the developed world’s largest welfare
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JULY 12, 2010 The World Isn’t Waiting on Free Trade, Why Are We? Our exporters are losing ground. The president should act on the trade agreements with Colombia and others. By MIKE JOHANNS More than three years ago the United States and Colombia signed a trade agreement that would reduce or eliminate tariffs on most
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JULY 12, 2010 U.S. Weighs Tax That Has VAT of Political Trouble By JOHN D. MCKINNON At least 139 countries, including most major economies except the U.S., levy a value-added tax on goods and services. Amid swelling deficits, there are increasingly loud calls in Washington for adopting a value added tax. John McKinnon discusses. But
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JULY 10, 2010 What You Can’t Say About Islamism American intellectuals won’t face up to Muslim radicalism’s Nazi past. By PAUL BERMAN In our present Age of the Zipped Lip, you are supposed to avoid making any of the following inconvenient observations about the history and doctrines of the Islamist movement: You are not supposed
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JULY 10, 2010 Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere Government pork hasn’t made West Virginia prosperous. By BRIAN BOLDUC ‘His heart belonged to you,” President Obama told the hundreds of West Virginians who attended Robert Byrd’s funeral last week. “Making life better here was his only agenda.” Maybe so. But despite the $4 billion in pork
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JULY 9, 2010 The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy Union ‘card-check,’ cap and trade, and so much more. By JOHN FUND Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they’re leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won’t return until mid-September. Members gulped when National Journal’s Charlie Cook, the
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JULY 8, 2010 The New Start Treaty: Time for a Careful Look The Senate shouldn’t rubber stamp an arms control strategy rooted in a vision of ‘nuclear zero’ without opening up the negotiating record. By JON KYL Hearings to ratify the nuclear arms treaty with Russia known as New Start are now underway in the
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