Alan Reynolds, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, explains why estimates that tax rates on the rich can be raised to 70-83% without reducing tax revenue are surely wrong. He argues that the rate at which tax revenues start to decline is closer to 33%.
Christina Hoff Sommers, writing in U.S. News and World Report, says the Paycheck Fairness Act will work to the disadvantage of women. Read more here.
Iowa Republican Steve King and his colleague Dave Reichert of Washington announce support for more federal subsidies of wind energy. The Wall Street Journal editorial board takes exception (here).
Originally published in The Telegraph — May 7, 2012 – Francois Hollande’s election victory is a symbol of the EU’s decline By Nile Gardiner Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat at the hands of French Socialist leader Francois Hollande has sent shock waves throughout Europe, and will significantly challenge the fragile austerity consensus across the EU. Jean-Marc Ayrault, [...]
“If you struck from Barack Obama’s vocabulary the first-person singular pronoun, he would fall silent, which would be a mercy to us and a service to him, actually,” Will continued. “Because he was been so incontinent for the last three years that you wind up with, as you said, [an] Ohio State University with empty [...]
Socialists win in France. Extremists win in Greece. But Evo Morales is facing resistance in Bolivia. Is the U.S. immune?
In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins on Europe’s problems which are the problems of every welfare state — the inability to create wealth.
Not only was the April new jobs report disappointing, but the unreported number of people no longer looking for work was even worse. People who have quit looking for work because they are discouraged by long unemployment are a better indicator of the state of the economy than people looking but not finding work. Saturday’s [...]
Originally published in The Daily Caller — May 4, 2012 – About a week ago, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman pronounced April “the month the confidence fairy died.” The confidence fairy is the idea that economic revival will come when people have confidence that regulations will be predictable, taxes low and stable, and government [...]
President Obama has been traveling the country speaking on college campuses. His topic is the interest rate students pay on their student loans. In a transparent effort to attract a new generation of students to his campaign, the President promises them to keep interest rates low. But as Andrew Biggs points out in today’s Wall [...]
First Elizabeth Warren (candidate for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts) claimed to be a Native American (when it would advance her career). Now she claims that calling her on it is sexism. Read Seth Mandel’s commentary in Commentary.
The Oregonian reported yesterday that two environmental groups have filed suit to stop a proposed wind farm just north of Steens Mountain. This report from 54 40 or Fight includes the map below showing the location of the proposed wind farm in relation to Steens. One thing to remember is that this would not even [...]
In his regular Oregonian column today, Jack Roberts speculates about the possibility that President Obama will abandon Vice President Obama as his running mate this time around. Roberts says that Biden’s opposition to the mission to kill Osama bin Laden makes his less viable given the Obama campaign’s suggestion that presumptive Republican candidate Mitt Romney [...]
The price of natural gas has fallen from $15 per 1000 cubic feet in 2005 to $2/1000 cf today. A few years ago their was local controversy over a liquified natural gas import facility on the Oregon coast. Now the controversy is over a natural gas export facility. What’s going on, and how likely is [...]
If you missed it in Monday’s Oregonian, take a look at Robert J. Samuelson’s commentary on the myth and reality of Washington. Here is what Samuelson says: “The Washington of conventional wisdom and the real Washington are two entirely different places. The Washington of conventional wisdom is overrun by well-paid insiders — lobbyists, lawyers, publicists [...]
Portland’s Lincoln High School is the national champion of the We the People Competition. And this is not the first time they have won the title. It is testimony to the great work of the Lincoln students, their teacher, their volunteer coaches, and the Classroom Law Project which has made Oregon’s statewide competition the best [...]
In it’s “Notable & Quotable” feature, yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried this quote from Jeffrey H. Anderson writing in the May 7 Weekly Standard: “The most politically brazen feature of Obamacare has always been its looting of Medicare. About half of Obamacare’s costs are to be covered with money taken from an already nearly bankrupt [...]
A Speech Delivered to Portland Rotary — May 1, 2012 – Can Congress mandate that you and I purchase health insurance on penalty of payment of a fine if we do not? As a matter of raw political power? Absolutely. We saw it happen in 2010, complete with Cornhusker kickbacks and Louisiana purchases. But [...]
