Rick Perry and Crony Capitalism
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I don’t like to see Presidential candidates engaged in this kind of crony capitalism.
Further Thoughts on Taxes and Spending
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William Voegeli takes on the idea that “it’s absurd to cut spending because we tax the wealthiest Americans less today than we did in 1955”.
First he illustrates that today’s rich pay more in taxes than the rich of 1955 did. (They pay more in real dollar terms, even if they do pay less in percentage …
Haley Barbour: Crony Capitalist
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Mississippi governor Haley Barbour wants to run for President. As governor, he’s supported farm subsidies, corporate welfare, and eminent domain abuse. Why would I want to vote for him, exactly?
Families Are Fragile
But within five years, a tiny 15 percent of the unmarried couples had taken wedding vows, while 60 percent had split up. At the five-year mark, only 36 percent of the children lived with their fathers, and half of the other 64 percent hadn’t seen their dads in the last month. One-half to two-thirds of the absent fathers provided little or no financial support.
Barney Frank Wants to Kill Fannie and Freddie?!?
Be still my beating heart. No, wait. Start beating, my stilled heart. Barney Frank just recommended killing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
”As I believe this committee will be recommending, abolishing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their present form and coming up with a new whole system of housing finance [is in order],” …
Health care is not a human right
This morning I saw a new Facebook poll: ”Is Health Care a Human Right?”. I voted no.
Do you have a right to health care? Yes. And no. My answer ultimately depends on what you mean by a ”right” to health care.
Rights come in two varieties: negative and positive. A negative right can be thought of …
Get Cheaper
Private colleges want equitable portion of need-based state aid
Tough. They’re private. Try lowering your prices for needy students, not charging someone else (namely the forgotten taxpayer) who doesn’t have a say in the matter.
McCain's Healthcare Plan
I’ve said before that McCain’s healthcare plan is one of the few proposals he’s made that I actually like. Robert Carroll explained some of the benefits in the Wall Street Journal.
The McCain health-care insurance tax credit may well be one of the most misunderstood proposals of this presidential election. Barack Obama has been …
An Ethanol Bailout?
I agree with Congressman Jeff Flake.
Ethanol plants may be the next beneficiary of a federal bailout and Mesa congressman Jeff Flake is among those opposed to that idea.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said the federal government is considering outlays of as much as $25 million to help ethanol plants, …
Fix the Mortgage Crisis By Subsidizing More Mortgages
Sometimes the federal government is unusually annoying. This is one of those times.
Efforts to create new tax breaks to encourage home purchases are gaining attention on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers gird for a major debate this spring on how best to shore up the nation’s troubled mortgage markets.
Some Democrats, …