Taxes & Economy

Hugo Chavez: Bush is sociailist “comrade”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 16, 2008

Cato-at-liberty notes that Venezuelan would-be-dictator Hugo Chavez has welcomed President Bush into the socialist movement: Socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked George W. Bush as a “comrade” on…

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Taxes & Economy

A Replay Of 1929? Don’t Count On It

  • October 6, 2008

Investor’s Business Daily editorial helps make the point that the panicked actions of President Bush and Congress to thwart another Great Depression were/are unsubstantiated, something Matt Brouillette also stated…

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Taxes & Economy

Marx was Right (Groucho, that is)

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • October 6, 2008

Washington’s response to the current financial trouble has affirmed Groucho Marx’s definition of “Politics”: “The art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong…

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State Budget

What Congress is up to

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 24, 2008

While the Pennsylvania General Assembly is on vacation, Congress is not – and they are up to no good. 1) The House passed the housing bailout bill, which backs…

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Government Accountability

How the left and right differ on reform

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 23, 2008

I was in DC on Monday at a conference hosted by the Brookings Institute on reforming Pennsylvania – yes, our state is so bad that we are a great case…

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Taxes & Economy

What to do with Fannie and Freddie

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 18, 2008

While President Bush and Congress are debating a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (properly the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, which…

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Taxes & Economy

Bush: Drill Now

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 14, 2008

President Bush will repeal the executive order banning offshore drilling. Of course, the executive order was superseded by a law banning offshore drilling, which Congress will have to…

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Taxes & Economy

Conservative Movement, RIP … or Not

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 23, 2008

Dan Flynn writes that the “Conservative Movement” is dead: Eurocommunism is gone and party conservatives now openly question the utility of even limited government rhetoric in 21st-century America.

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Education

President Bush Praises EITC

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 24, 2008

From the REACH Foundation: President Bush spoke about the need to make a good education for every child a national priority. The President then highlighted Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit…

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