Taxes & Economy

The Fallacy That Government Creates Jobs

  • Nathan Benefield
  • December 9, 2008

Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute has an excellent piece on the economic benefit of so-called fiscal “stimulus” In part, this is a debate about Keynesian economics, which is…

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Taxes & Economy

Why Permanent Tax Cuts Are the Best Stimulus

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 25, 2008

John B. Taylor has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal concluding that – and this will shock Governor Rendell and the state treasurer – government spending is…

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Regulation

Corporate Welfare: Bad for Business

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 8, 2008

A Capital Commerce blog post – on the subject on whether Obama is a Marxist (concluding that he is not, but he is a…

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Are we all “supply-siders” now?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 9, 2007

I saw this Bruce Barltett editorial in the NY Times over the weekend. Bartlett makes the intriguing argument that politicians no longer need to claim to believe in “supply-side”…

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