I found out something quite interesting today in the conservative press. The roads we drive on and the bridges we cross were all built with the bare hands of small business persons and entrepreneurs, all without any government funds. When President Obama said, “Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If …
The blogosphere has, of course, exploded over the Supreme Court Obamacare ruling. My Mind&Politics colleague I.A. Grea added his say in response to articles by Stephen Presser and Ilya Shapiro. The article that most impressed me was from Ed Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation. In Morning Bell: Join the Fight …
As I ponder how rising health care expenditures will affect our society and our politics, and wait with baited breath the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare, I have come across 3 articles in the New York Times on health and health care spending which seem to take contradictory trajectories. In Let’s …
Taxes are becoming a more popular subject. The last time I did this analysis, I had to troll the internet to find and gather information from a variety of sources. Now, the Citizens for Tax Justice has an easy to find, easy to comprehend set of articles, tables, and graphs on the …
It was a fascinating day reading the New York Times Sunday Opinion Section (April 28). Ross Douthat, in When Assimilation Stalls, notes that there is a crisis in the working and lower classes related to a retreat from marriage and rising out-of-wedlock birthrates that is contributing to their children assimilating downward. …
Imagine a country with 100 people and a total income of $100, with total federal income taxes of $11. Imagine further that one person made $100 and paid all $11 of the taxes, and the other 99 people made and paid nothing. In this case the top 1% of income …
The question of religion in politics is a touchy one, as contributors to the NY Times Sunday Dialogue: What Its the Role of Faith in Public Policy?1 demonstrate. The author of the original letter notes that while it is entirely proper for people of faith to contribute to the public forum, “faith …
Health care costs by the numbers: Americans spend $7500 per capita on health care. This is the highest in the world. The nation with the next highest spending is Norway, at $5000; we spend 50% more. Even though our spending on health care is higher, our health outcomes are generally …
Hilary Rosen, Democratic consultant and CNN contributor, certainly created a firestorm with her words, referring to Ann Romney, “Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.” And with that, the political commentariat exploded. Let’s be charitable. “Worked” has at least two basic meanings, one of …
CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Bolger, in the article Epic failure by Washington sets us adrift1, puts forward the proposition from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan that, “Great changes in national public policy should never be erected on slender partisan majorities.” She uses this to criticize the health care …
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