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Beware the Static Analysis

When considering tax policy, analysts can choose from two basic methods to determine how policy will affect revenues and industry. The first, used by many politicians, is static analysis, which assumes that tax policy has no effect on consumer and investor...

Published 09-17-2009 8:53 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, big government, health care

Someone Else Doesn't Pay The Freight

For fans of economic policy, this promises to be the equivalent of the Summer of Love … or Altamont, depending on our individual perspectives. Not for decades has the federal government attempted such a broad program that essentially revamps an...

Published 07-16-2009 11:56 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, big government, health care

SOWELL: A Personal Inequity

Sometimes, when I hear about "disparities" and "inequities," I think of a disparity that applied directly to me-- the disparity in basketball ability between myself and Michael Jordan. When I was in school, I was so awful in basketball...

Published 07-14-2009 9:15 AM by Thomas Sowell

Filed under: business, big government, economic recovery

SAMUELSON: The Real Era of Big Government

WASHINGTON -- The question that President Obama ought to be asking -- that we all should be asking -- is this: How big a government do we want? Without anyone much noticing, our national government is on the verge of a permanent expansion that would endure...

Published 07-13-2009 12:05 AM by Robert Samuelson

Filed under: big government, budget, GDP, government spending

The Only Thing Stimulated In a Government Stimulus

A new GAO review of the $787 billion stimulus package tells us what we should have known all along. When government spends money themselves to stimulate the economy rather than let citizens have their own money to spend, the only part of the economy that...

Published 07-09-2009 11:03 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: stimulus, big government, wasteful spending

Independence Day

Tomorrow we celebrate Independence Day. It is the 233rd anniversary of our country's founding when we told the king of England that we were no longer interested in living under his oppressive thumb and decided it was time for us to create our own...

Published 07-03-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: taxes, stimulus, big government, limited government

Health Care Scare

Earlier this month, Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy presented the new “Affordable Health Choices Act” on his website . But what does it really mean? What does the plan entail and what does it really cost? Let’s start with the simplest...

Published 06-22-2009 8:11 AM by Kirsten Wright

Filed under: big government, health care

What Really Happens With Government Run Health Care

\Both President Barack Obama and Senator Edward Kennedy released their health care plans this weekend. They reach out a helping hand--the kind that will strangle you should their ideas get passed. As expected, there are many parts and pieces to this legislation...

Published 06-09-2009 12:06 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: business, big government, health care, consumers

"Shared Sacrifice" Means It's Time to Look at Government Employees, Too

Fiscal conservatives recall well one of the promises Barack Obama made while campaigning for president. In his October debate against John McCain, Obama said "actually I'm cutting more than I'm spending so that it will be a net spending cut...

Published 05-08-2009 12:05 AM by Brian Faughnan

Filed under: liberal hypocrisy, wasteful spenging, big government

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