Money & The Economy
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Why Tax Rates Instead of Loopholes?
The Obama Administration has been adamant about raising tax revenue by raising marginal rates rather than by closing loopholes and…
Read More »Unemployment rate drops to 7.7% “Unexpectedly”
In today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics employment summary, the Department of Labor reports that the unemployment rate dropped to its…
Read More »Rebuttal of Doug Bandow’s newest anti-defense lies
The pseudoconservative, anti-American “American Spectator” magazine has published yet another ridiculous screed by leftist-libertarian, isolationist pundit Doug Bandow (whose screeds AmSpec publishes…
Read More »Rebuttal of CATO’s/PDA’s “Defense Sense” defense cuts proposals
In May 2012, the CATO Institute and the extremely-leftist, Massachusetts-based “Project on Defense Alternatives” wrote and published a garbage pamphlet…
Read More »Evaluating the “strategic choices” of teams assembled by the CSBA
This past summer, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) assembled seven teams composed of 10 “defense insiders” each.…
Read More »Mayors Challenged to Food Stamp Life Should Visit Military Families
Do you ever watch reality shows? I am not a fan because most of the participants are ill-equipped to…
Read More »Rebuttal of the ACA’s newest blatant lies
The extremely leftist, pro-unilateral-disarmament Arms Control Association (ACA) has written yet another litany of blatant lies on its website, this…
Read More »Rebuttal of Veronique de Rugy’s latest anti-defense lies
The French libertarian Veronique de Rugy, who currently lives in the US and writes garbage for the GMU’s Mercatus Center,…
Read More »About that defense budget waste that Sen. Coburn has found…
When, on November 15th, Sen. Coburn published his report, The Department of Everything”, documenting non-military and wasteful items in the defense…
Read More »Rebuttal of the IISS’s and Alan Simpson’s false claims and statistics
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) falsely claims, and has produced a graph purporting to show, that the…
Read More »ObamaCare: Unaffordable to Working Poor
But you say, “How can that be? I thought the Affordable Care Act would mean health insurance coverage for those…
Read More »ObamaCare: MN Exchange Cost Greater than Expected
Kaiser Health News is reporting today that Minnesota’s portion of the state’s health care insurance exchange will cost far more…
Read More »Fiscal Cliff Will Happen
With events scheduled for in the White House and on the road, Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail…
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