Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Two and a Half Cheers for Ryan-Murray
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
Tagged: government shutdown
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
A Bad Budget Deal Compared to What?
Paul Ryan gives GOP a short-term win. But has the “Stupid Party” snatched defeat from the jaws of victory … again?
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Why I Love Libertarians
No intellectual movement speaks truth to power better than libertarianism.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Speaker Series
Heartland Speaker Series: John Baden on Free Market Environmentalism
On Monday, November 18, John Baden joined the Heartland Institute for a luncheon to discuss conservancy and environmentalism from a free market perspective.
School Lunch Expansion: Another Wasteful, Unaffordable Entitlement
Soon, all public schools will be allowed to enroll all students, regardless of need, into a new federal entitlement: “free” school lunches. This is the second year of a three-year rollout for the program, embedded in Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Obamacare Yet Again Shows: More Government Means a Worse Private Sector
The lies about ObamaCare from the Administration and the Democrats are now being revealed in a fast and furious fashion.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Obama’s Shutdown/Default Scare Tactics
Hundreds of thousands of government workers were laid off, national parks, monuments and other federal tourist attractions were closed, veterans were shortchanged, etc. All because the Republicans in the House of Representatives didn’t vote the necessary money for them, right? Wrong!
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Media · Politics
Heartland’s Ben Domenech on MSNBC’s ‘All In with Chris Hayes’ Talking End of Government Shutdown
Chris Hayes says that the Tea Party faction and right-wing activists are “lying” to the American people and the Republican leadership in Washington. But Ben points out, rightly, that the bigger lie was that Obamacare was ready for prime time.
The Republican Establishment and The Tea Party Need to Stop Fooling Themselves
The balance of what’s possible with what the base wants is a delicate thing, and Republican leadership sure hasn’t figured out how to achieve it. That Bismarck line about politics being the art of the possible is being bandied about a lot lately… But I’ve always had a problem with it, because I think it ignores the reality of modern political tactics.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
It’s the President’s Fault
Day 4 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping. The Great Government Shutdown[...]
Budget Deal Shows Republicans and Democrats are Two Wings of the Same Bird
Is anyone surprised that last Friday’s budget deal to avert a government shutdown (most of the government would have kept going) is being shown to be a sham? Thirty-eight billion[...]
Government shutdown? If only!
Headlines in newspapers across the country today declare we are on the verge of a “government shutdown” because the Republicrats and Demoplicans cannot agree on whether to cut an infinitesimal[...]
Politics · Regulation · Taxes
Postscripts to America’s Uncommon Sense
Reactions to recent events, cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense: Budget and National Debt If not now, when? If not the House, who? These two questions lie at the core of[...]
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