Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Heartland Senior Fellow Benjamin Domenech was a guest Wednesday night on “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Ben is rare among people who go on TV to talk: He actually endeavors to answer the questions he’s asked.
President Obama paints pretty pictures with flowery pro-growth and populist rhetoric. But the results are consistently the opposite of his promises.
Bad news: Employers are already starting to get the same cancellation letters that went to millions of people in the individual market late last year.
Featured · Health Care · Regulation
We live in a post-Obamacare world now. The only questions are what we do about it. Avik Roy and Benjamin Domenech discuss the future of Obamacare in this cross-post to the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
Featured · Health Care · Media · Politics
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel slammed Obamacare on Tuesday night, ridiculing the Obama administrations expectation that young people would buy health insurance.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Legal Affairs
Tax evasion is of course illegal, but tax avoidance is not.
The Media’s double standard when describing political advocacy organizations is as obvious as it is unsurprising.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics · Random
Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty
Income inequality will be the theme of Obama’s forthcoming State of the Union speech, but like everything else he says it will be a Big Lie.
A truly free market economy is one that tends to have the “good deflation,” and we should look forward to it.
The last remaining glimmer of Obama’s political capital and personal appeal, and thus his ability to help vulnerable Democrats in the 2014 elections and beyond, is flowing into the septic tank of Progressive history.
How long will the insurance industry abide being treated like shoe shine boys? Mr. Obama will not be in office forever. His regime is already coming to an end. What will these companies do then?
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
So-called Progressives like to talk in code words, because they know if they told the American people what they were really thinking, they would never get elected.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
“If you like your health plan, you can keep it,” is the Lie of the Year, according to PolitiFact. But Barack Obama has been operating under an even more momentous lie for his entire presidency.
The Supreme Court has taken up another case based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s campaign of lies that carbon dioxide is the cause of “climate change” and claims about the quality of air in the United States. The Court is composed of lawyers, not scientists.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
For weeks, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney derided the policies people liked and could afford as “junk.” Today, that “junk” is apparently treasure.
Featured · Health Care · Politics · Regulation
The president’s latest decision to effectively exempt a portion of the American people from the individual mandate is the most egregious and unlawful step he has yet taken in the failed rollout of his health care law.
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