Debt Crisis and Candy Cigarettes
By official projections, President Obama for eight years is firmly on track to more than double the amount of federal debt incurred during Bush’s eight years. All the news, however, isn’t bad....
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“Slavery Is Freedom” and “Tax Hikes Are Tax Relief”
In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the overpowered subjects of the state are indoctrinated to believe the mantra “War Is Peace, Slavery Is Freedom, Ignorance Is Strength.” In our time, it’s...
Good Intentions and Bad Results
Launched in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the “unconditional war on poverty in America,” now in its 49th year, might arguably be the most expensive and longest running example of...
Taxes, “the Rich,” and “Fairness”
President Obama regularly admonishes “the rich” for not paying their “fair share” of taxes. On the other hand, Peter Schiff, an investment broker, notes that “after the tax hikes go into...
Obama: Fudging the Numbers and Threatening Jobs
President Obama says he wants more jobs, a “top priority,” plus a growing small business sector, the section of the economy that creates the majority of new jobs, and more income...
MSNBC’s Tag Teams of Redistributionists
It’s not hard if you have a show on MSNBC. There’s a mantra and all you do is repeat it. I get home from work and click on the TV and...
Obama’s Switcheroo on Economics, From Right to Wrong
Here’s President Obama in August 2009 regarding the link between tax increases, recessions, and business growth: “The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a...
Campaign Claims: Who’s Telling the Truth? Is Anyone?
“Well, the liar won!” That’s what half the country will be saying the night of the election or the morning after, no matter who wins, given the current level of political...
Bad Lunches Cooked Up by the Central Planners
The big news out of Sweden is that lunch lady Annika Eriksson has been shut down. Eriksson was an exceptionally creative and hardworking head cook at a school in central Sweden....
The Labor Department’s “Mud Pie” Unemployment Rate
The funny thing about the Labor Department’s monthly unemployment report is that the number-crunching bureaucrats act like they’re delivering high-carat diamonds when the real worth of what they’re reporting is closer...
The Central Planners’ Projected Crackup
The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it’s officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government’s own number...
Super Rich and a Little Quirky
The problem Mitt Romney has had during the entire campaign is the perception among many, in both parties, that he’s soft, and cynical, a limp and bendable chameleon, and that he’s...
A “Recovery” in Reverse
They say the economy is moving in the right direction, that we should stay the course, be patient, that it takes time to pull out of the recession that began in...
ObamaCare’s Central Planning
The central planners of ObamaCare have established an Independent Payment Advisory Board, a panel of 15 unelected and unaccountable government officials who will call the financial shots in the U.S. healthcare...
Socializing Incomes Through Denigrating Success
There was nothing new in President Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that — somebody else made that happen.” Ten months before Mr. Obama’s statement, Harvard...