The Congressional Budget Office recently reported new numbers related to the impact of the Affordable Care Act. The report provided good news for Democrats and other presidential supporters when it estimated that the number of uninsured has dropped to approximately 30 million Americans. On balance, however, Republicans and opponents have more fodder for the political […]
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Obamacare by the Numbers: Who Really Cares?
22 Feb 2014
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Fiscal Follies and International Trade
06 Feb 2014
William Galston published an opinion piece in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal titled: Obama’s Moment of Truth on Trade. In the editorial Galston compares Obama’s trade statement in his recent State of the Union address to Bill Clinton’s battle to pass NAFTA in 1993. Clinton faced significant political opposition within his own party, but stood tall […]
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The Affordable Care Act and Labor Supply
05 Feb 2014
On Tuesday the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released it’s report – “Budget and Economic Outlook: 2014 to 2024” . The report is causing quite a stir because of the CBO’s estimates of the affect of the Affordable Care Act on the United States economy. President Obama has previously used CBO estimates to provide support for the […]
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The Weekly Standard‘s Charlotte Allen has revisited Kelo v. New London (2005). The aftermath is nearly as ugly as the initial case. For those uninitiated, Kelo dealt with government’s power to seize private property. The Constitution implies and accommodates this power of eminent domain in the Fifth Amendment, so long as government seizes the property for […]
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The Minimum Wage and Poverty
31 Jan 2014
In Tuesday’s State of the Union address President Obama made some bold statements about the relationship of the minimum wage and the reduction of poverty (emphasis added). But Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. … And as a chief executive, I intend to […]
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Argument for focusing on Wealth Inequality evaporates. Will this stop Mr. Obama in his speech tomorrow?
27 Jan 2014
Mr. Obama continues to focus on wealth inequality as the causal force driving lack of opportunity, and is expected to push to some degree in his SOTU speech. As we discussed last month, Mr. Obama asserts this is “the defining challenge of our time.” Notice the reason this is so important: it is a difficult […]
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Fairness and Equality: Part 2
16 Dec 2013
I feel the need to clarify my earlier post on “Fairness and Equality” due to the many and varied comments on it and some misunderstanding. At the outset, I will say that in a blog post it is impossible to address every aspect of a subject or every objection. So the reader must read the […]
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Not fair! How many times did we hear, or say, that when we were children and someone thought they were not being treated fairly, whatever that meant to them? We are hearing it again, from grown-ups—well, I think they are grown-ups. We hear it from the Occupy Wall Street crowd (what is left of them), […]
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In their new book, published by Crossway in 2013, The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution, the authors Wayne Grudem and Barry Asmus tackle the issue of whether one can make a distinctively Christian defense of markets and economic growth. The book involves a unique combination of authors and perspectives. Grudem is a well-known and […]
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Christian Religion versus Environmental Religion
05 Nov 2013
We see it every day, a newspaper article or news report about what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done or might do to further regulate what it considers to be pollution. Most recently President Obama issued a statement to his agencies that he would soon be addressing global warming through some type of Federal […]
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