Daily Archives: September 5, 2012

Would this DNC ever nominate a candidate who advocated doing what Bill Clinton did during his term? Remember, Bill Clinton significantly cut the capital gains tax, reformed welfare by making work a prerequisite to receive it, implemented “don’t ask don’t tell” for the military and enthusiastically signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law.Continue Reading

Dan Mitchell writes here about the latest competitiveness rankings, showing that the US has continued its decline, which began in 2007. Some of the national comparisons are startling. The US is now worse than Uruguay, for example, when it comes to property rights.

Post updated at 8 p.m. The day started with a stop at a small business in Statesville. Business owner Steve Johnson addressed the Statesville crowd. AFP’s Jeff Mixon mans the “Freedom Is Cool” ice cream truck. Becki submits this group photo from Salisbury. The tour rolls through Lexington. The bus stopped in Asheboro this afternoon.Continue Reading

Wrong, says Swedish economist Nima Sanandaji in this paper published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. In the last two decades, Sweden has been moving away from the socialistic model that leftists here point to as proof that we need still more government economic control and welfare. The Swedish are doing as well as theyContinue Reading

Think we can close the federal government’s funding gap by raising taxes solely on “millionaires and billionaires”? Think again, warns Thomas Sowell in a new column. Not even the Obama administration believes it can rely only on taxing the wealthiest Americans to meet its goals. The actual tax-increase plans being proposed by Obama do notContinue Reading

If you’re looking for praise of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech, don’t turn to John Stossel. He shares his ambivalence with Human Events readers. The Republicans did some good things in Tampa, like showing two debt clocks and allowing speakers like Ted Cruz to say, “Rights are secure only when government power isContinue Reading

Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to the debate over the release of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax records. One endlessly repeated commercial points out that Romney paid only 13.9 percent of his income in taxes in 2010, “probably less than you.” That ad is misleading onContinue Reading

Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online tackles the notion that a president and his advisers can oversee the American economy. The idea that presidents “run” the economy is both ludicrous and fairly novel. Before the New Deal (which in my opinion prolonged the Great Depression), the notion that presidents should or could growContinue Reading