Republicans and the Long Game
The sudden deluge of scandal which dominates the discussion around President Obama’s administration at the moment has handed a golden opportunity to Republicans. Yet if they aren’t careful, they’ll squander[...]
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The Bloom is Off the Rose: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of the Watergate Hearings
Suffice it to say that – four decades after Watergate – nothing much has changed when it comes to the abuse of Executive Branch power, and the famous dictum of Lord Acton remains true: power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Obamacare Implodes
As HSAs and similar plans have soared in the private market, health spending growth has plummeted. That is the result of market competition and incentives.
The Know-it-Alls Now Know Nothing
Do you believe, as this administration wants you to, that our leaders don’t have a clue as to what is happening unless it appears as a trending topic on twitter? [...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: IRS Scandal Gives Obamacare a Poor Prognosis
Host Steve Stanek interviews Dr. Keith Kantor, CEO of Service Foods, about whether or not the IRS should continue its major role in administrating Obamacare. Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist[...]
The Taxman Cometh (for Tea Partiers)
The petty tyrants at the IRS have added to the distrust, even dislike, of government by many Americans — not just committed conservatives or Tea Party activists. It will make every attempt to increase the size and intrusiveness of government — including the implementation of Obamacare which requires many thousands of regulatory “trust me’s” and a large role for the IRS — much harder to sell.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Obama and the Pirates
Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion. You probably heard again the other night in[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
To Win The Debt-Ceiling Debate, We Must Discredit Obama’s Debt Dishonesty
President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they “should pay the bills that they have already racked up.” Let me translate that into household[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Tax Cuts and Duplicity
Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was ever discussed is continuation of the same middle[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Why America Is Going To Miss The Bush Tax Cuts
[First published at Forbes and the Heartlander.] President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Politics · Taxes
After The Fiscal Cliff or Grand Bargain
A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the fiscal cliff and a grand bargain. If the past is any indicator, under either event taxes will go up[...]
FIRE · Health Care · Regulation · Taxes
Compliance Nightmare: IRS Admits Obamacare’s Small Business Tax Credits Won’t Work
Surprise, surprise: The IRS has testified before Congress that the small business tax credits in Obamacare are so complex, they are essentially useless for most employers. Makes one wonder if[...]
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