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  • Justifying government interference by demonizing, oversimplifying.

    This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina Karras on 08-02-2009
    Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, investors, economic crisis, regulation, government, economics, federal government, action, government intrusion, government expansion

  • Obama supporters on cap and trade: a huge tax that will decrease GDP

    "I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina Karras on 06-28-2009
    Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists

  • No to Bailing Out Beach Houses

    Looks like Congress is again cooking up a bill that would send over taxpayer money to cover the poor financial decisions of others. It's officially called the " Homeowners' Defense Act " but Competitive Enterprise Institue (CEI) has dubbed it the "Beach House Bailout :" So...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on 06-08-2009
    Filed under: free market, regulation, bailout, Beach House Bailout, insurance, Florida, CEI, Homeowners Defense Act

  • It's Now or Never for a True Conservative Health Care Alternative

    President Obama said on Thursday that the time is now or never for health reform, which means it is also the time for conservative alternatives to Obamacare. Ryan Ellis, Tax Policy Director for Americans for Tax Reform , writes on Red State that the current solution proposed by Congressional Republicans...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Alexa Shrugged on 05-29-2009
    Filed under: congress, free market, health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, regulation, Freedom
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