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Which Obama Will Be President?

  • Matthew Brouillette, Nathan Benefield
  • November 13, 2008

Will an Obama presidency bring a lurch to the political Left in America?  This is of great concern for those of us who believe that our prosperity and security do…

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Taxes & Economy

Real Hope and Change Comes From Ideas Not Politics

  • Nathan Benefield
  • November 3, 2008

In 1993, I officially launched my campaign for President of the United States.  Granted, I was only 17 years old, hadn’t graduated high school yet, and wasn’t a member of…

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Taxes & Economy

The Age of Prosperity Is Over

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 27, 2008

Art Laffer in today’s Wall Street Journal on how the bailout mentality is bad news for our economy: Whenever the government bails someone out of trouble, they always…

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Taxes & Economy

Mexicans and Machines

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 27, 2008

The latest Drew Carey video on Reason TV tackles NAFTA, robots stealing jobs, and the benefits of creative descrution. I don’t know whether I laughed harder at the machines…

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Taxes & Economy

Obama: NAFTA not so bad after all

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 19, 2008

Barack Obama tells Fortune magazine that NAFTA hasn’t been as bad as he said it was. It may have been that he was pandering during the campaign, or it…

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Taxes & Economy

Economic Benefits of NAFTA

  • Nathan Benefield
  • June 16, 2008

National Center for Policy Analysis has a new analysis on the economic benefits of NAFTA. NAFTA critics most frequently point to the “lost jobs” but here are some facts:…

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Taxes & Economy

Hoover’s Heirs

  • Nathan Benefield
  • April 3, 2008

Wall Street Journal editorial on what not to do facing a possible recession, i.e. follow the lead of Herbert Hoover: In 1930, he signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act,…

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Taxes & Economy

Defending Free Trade

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 15, 2008

The Economist has an editorial defending NAFTA – and the need for the US (and presidential candidates) to drop NAFTA bashing. (HT: The Foundry). On a related front,…

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Taxes & Economy

NAFTA, Foreign Trade, and jobs

  • Nathan Benefield
  • March 3, 2008

Cato’s Dan Griswold writes that “Ohio Needs More Foreign Trade” as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama denounce NAFTA in Ohio: Ohio workers would pay a heavy price for…

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