Category: The Economy and Your Money
Flacking for Power
This sort of thing makes me just a little bit ill: The Senate should pass a fair and clear-cut minimum wage increase for our nation’s working poor, with no special strings attached for business. Last year, Democratic Senators were successful in rejecting the Republican leadership’s cynical ploy to use the minimum-wage proposal as a vehicle [...]
“Boom”, Says the Economy.
How’s the economy doing? Let’s check the headlines. Well, the deficit is at a four-year low. That’s because “revenues” are up over 8 percent from last year. Why yes, as it happens. And this past month set a record as the government posted the largest December surplus in history. Seems that the big influx in [...]
Stepping Between the Democrats and Getting A Win!
Here’s a headline you don’t see every day: “DeMint Thanks Democrats for Agreeing to Accept Pelosi Earmark Disclosure Requirements”. It appears that Republican DeMint had to work really hard to get Senate Democrats to accept the earmark reforms passed by the House Democrats and got a bit more in the process. Good for Jim DeMint. [...]
So, how’s that “culture of corruption” thing coming along in Congress? As it happens, pretty comically. Here’s the story in brief. House Democrats passed an earmark reform bill. It was kind of light, but not a bad start at all. It would require congressmen to fill out a public disclosure form every time they requested [...]
Are Public Libraries a Thing of the Past?
This story strikes me as interesting in any discussion over our educational system. You can’t find “Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings” at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or “The Education of Henry Adams” at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson’s “Final Harvest”? Don’t look to the Kingstowne branch. It’s not that the books are checked [...]
Oh No! Corn!
Beware the corn! No, really. According to Miss C, PBS and NPR are warning parents of the eminent danger their children face from high fructose corn syrup. Says Miss C, According to the left, the government is always responsible for the behavior of individual citizens. If citizens make bad decisions, it can be corrected only [...]
RIP Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman, Nobel-winning economist has died at the age of 94. I am not an economics-minded person by any stretch of the imagination, but I always found Friedman easy to read, intensely interesting, and highly informative. He was a genius who has done as much for modern economic thought as just about anyone I could [...]
Tax Cuts for the Kinda Rich!
Who would have thought that one of the Democrats’ priorities would be giving tax cuts to well-off people? Democratic leaders this week vowed to make the alternative minimum tax a centerpiece of next year’s budget debate, saying the levy threatens to unfairly increase tax bills for millions of middle-class families by the end of the [...]
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