As the DC Democrat Party unilaterally worked to ram through Obamacare, there were roughly nine million red flags alerting us to the fact that it was in its entirety a terrible idea. One of the biggest, reddest flags – was the individual mandate. Obamacare forced you – under penalty of an inexorably increasing fine – […]
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy”: “(T)o describe how a ‘state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.’” Cities and towns also experiment with policy novelties – serving as even smaller laboratories. For […]
Remember “Cap and Trade?” The anti-market allegedly “market-based” “solution” to man-faked global warming climate change? A central authority (usually a governmental body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that may be emitted. The limit or cap is allocated and/or sold by the central authority to firms in the form of […]
For governments everywhere, taxes and regulations are like Lays Potato Chips – no one can eat just one. In part, of course, because governments’ appetite for taking our money and controlling our lives is insatiable. It’s their nature. And because government intervention just about always makes things worse. ObamaCare Makes Things Worse Damaging Dodd-Frank is […]
Hershey’s – the Candy Man – is a BIG business. Its May 2014 market cap was $23.26 billion. And Hershey’s is very generous with government. Through the second quarter of last year, it had spent $8,332,000 on lobbying and $845,534 on candidates and elected officials. Tallies no Mom & Pop Candy Shoppe can come […]
Bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. has for the most part devolved into a pipe dream, a dirty word – or both. A pipe dream because after decades of gerrymandering – partisanship is what you get. Gerrymandering is elected officials choosing voters rather than the other way round. Those already elected carve Congressional districts into bizarre shapes […]
We have noted time and again how government – in the name of helping the Little Guy – eviscerates the Little Guy. Claude Louis Hector de Villars – the great early 18th Century French general (back when France had them) – rightly observed: God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my […]
The late, inordinately great Ronald Reagan provided expert analysis of the ridiculous Push-Pull damage wrought by government. The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Government Pushes you into arrest […]
We recently referenced the very good news to come from an otherwise very bad President Barack Obama China trip. U.S., China to Drop Tariffs on Range of Tech Products The U.S. and China reached an agreement to drop tariffs on a wide range of technology products, in a deal that its backers say could cover […]
President Barack Obama’s recent Asia trip was – like much of his presidency – very often disastrous. Some things are more disastrous than others. A Look at What the US-China Climate Deal Means for the Fight Against Global Warming China, whose emissions are rising as it builds new coal plants to fuel its economic growth, […]