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Attacking Federal Worker Compensation
Conservatives think they have scored again in their ongoing attack on federal workers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal (see here for a reprint at AEI), Paul Kupiec points out that federal bank regulators earn higher compensation – gasp! – than employees of the … Continue reading
More Insights From Wise Boy
So Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein) is perplexed. You see, he noticed that Republicans support the idea of doing long-run estimates of the federal budget deficit, hope to secure the long border between the U.S. and Mexico, and believe that the government … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, budget, budget deficit, ezra klein
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More Obfuscation From Ezra Klein
Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein) is at it again: destroying the meaning of words in the best Orwellian tradition in support of statism. Wise Boy is one of those liberals who confuses matters by calling government spending “investment” or “insurance.” And he loves to equate tax expenditure … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, ezra klein, government spending, interest rates, liberal mind, Orwellian
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Raising The Medicare Eligibility Age Would Not Increase Costs
In Medicare discussions, the suggestion arises from time to time that we could reduce federal spending by raising the Medicare eligibility age, for example, from 65 to 67. The popular liberal response (see e.g., this Kaiser Family Foundation report) is that raising Medicare’s eligibility age actually … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, health insurance, healthcare reform, Medicare
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Wise Boy Should Wise Up
According to the Wise Boy (aka Ezra Klein), the sequestration (automatic across-the-board spending cuts) proves that the U.S. government is “dumb.” Yeah, for Klein everything is dumb except more taxes and spending. He especially loves the high tax recommendations of the deficit reduction … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, budget deficit, ezra klein, sequestration, taxation
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Orwellian Word Games
Ezra Klein is again making an Orwellian argument to mislead readers, this time about taxes and spending. It appears that Klein, other liberals, and even a few misguided Republicans have agreed to use another word for “taxes,” especially those taxes that relate to what has become known as tax expenditures. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged budget deficit, ezra klein, government spending, liberal mind, Orwellian, propaganda, tax expenditures, tax rates, taxation
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Still Attacking Federal Employees
Federal workers have been subject to a pay freeze for the last two years, but that’s apparently not good enough for Republicans in Congress, who now look to introduce legislation to prevent Obama’s plan to give employees a pay raise of, wait for … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged budget deficit, economy, federal spending, government salaries
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Defragmenting Healthcare
Einer Elhauge, a healthcare expert at Harvard University, argues that we can lower healthcare costs and cut the deficit by “defragmenting” the system, by which he means replacing small group physician practices with large companies that combine hospitals and salaried physi-cians, similar to … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, healthcare costs, ObamaCare
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Spending Is The Problem
In his latest column, George Will cites to an article by economist, Jeffrey Dorfman, in which Dorfman refers to some interesting facts about the deficit. In the last year of the Clinton administration, which was the last time the budget was balanced, Dorfman points out … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, fiscal cliff, government spending, taxation, taxes
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Heavy Taxation Of The Wealthy
Richard Posner is one of the great jurists and legal scholars of our time. No matter what topic (he is a prolific writer on many subjects), Posner can be counted upon to make thoughtful and interesting arguments, usually from a … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged budget deficit, capitalism, current events, economy, politics, Richard Posner, taxation
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