president obama
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Budgets/TaxesTaxes
Trump’s Budget Proposal Shows The Way To Greatness
by Jesse Hathaway June 15, 2017Government spending and its evil twin, taxation, harm people every day, sometimes mocking taxpayers by claiming to help them, even as they inflict serious economic damage. Reducing spending and taxes, and therefore reducing the harm they cause, is the best way government can actually help people.
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Internet/Telecom
Internet Giants, Not Broadband Providers, Are the Top Threat to Consumers
by Scott Cleland May 17, 2017The Federal Communications Commission has begun a high profile rulemaking process to undo the net neutrality rules that President Obama’s FCC passed in 2015. So it is imperative to get the basic facts right about the “networks” involved in “network neutrality.”
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EconomicsRegulation
Dodd-Frank: All Of It Is Awful – So All Of It Needs To Go
by Seton Motley January 21, 2017For decades and decades in Washington, D.C., members of both political Parties have time and again thrown at us the Groucho Marx quote: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
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FeaturedGovernmentPolitics
Yes, Mr. President, You Must Enforce the Laws You Don’t Like
by Rob Natelson January 9, 2017Must the president enforce all laws, even those he disapproves of?
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FeaturedGovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
The Obama Legacy: If It Lives By ‘Executive Action’ – It Should Die By ‘Executive Action’
by Seton Motley November 15, 2016A hallmark – perhaps the hallmark – of the Barack Obama Administration is the “executive action.” The unilateral changes in law – oft major in size and scope – executed by the Executive Branch.
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EconomicsGovernmentPolitics
New York’s Government Needs To (Re)Learn: You Can’t Spend Your Way To Prosperity
by Seton Motley November 10, 2016President Barack Obama has doubled the national debt – from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. He’s added more debt than all of his forty-three presidential predecessors combined.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland Daily Podcast – H. Sterling Burnett: The Environmental Agenda of Obama’s Last Year
by H. Sterling Burnett March 17, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as H. Sterling Burnett, Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News joins the nationally syndicated radio show, An Economy of One, with Host Gary Rathbun. Burnett joins the show to talk about the environmental agenda of President Obama’s last year in office.