Feb 7, 2012
Government corruption can take many forms.
Last week, most of those forms could be seen in the actions of the Obamaadministration everything from government officials taking simplebribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay offpolitical supporters,...
Jan 31, 2012
President Barack Obama keeps demanding that the rich pay more because it is only fair. In his State of Union address, he said millionairesshould pay a minimum of 30 percent of their income in taxes. The 30percent number seems to have come from divine inspiration rather...
Jan 24, 2012
Last week, ABC News ran a story that led with the statement, MittRomney has millions of dollars of his personal wealth in investmentfunds set up in the Cayman Islands, a notorious Caribbean tax haven.
What the reporters failed to mention was that ABC, a unit of the...
Jan 18, 2012
Cayman is rich, and Belize is poor. Why? Both are small Caribbeancountries with the same climate and roughly the same mixed racialheritage, and both were English-speaking British colonies. Belize (theformer British Honduras) received its independence in 1981, while Caymanis...
Jan 10, 2012
Despite pledges to cut spending by the new Republican House majority, itappears spending during the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept.30, will actually be greater than in fiscal 2011.
The House Republicans were filled with good intentions, but they gotsnookered by...
Dec 27, 2011
Even though some are predicting the end of the world in 2012, there is apossibility it could turn out better than 2011 (a low bar). Many peoplewho are not part of the political class continue to advancecivilization and make things better for us like the late Steve...
Dec 21, 2011
Do increases in government spending increase or decrease the number of jobs?
Conventional wisdom is they will increase jobs, and a few left-wingeconomists, such as Paul Krugman of The New York Times, frequently aretrotted out by reckless politicians and some in the news...
Nov 29, 2011
President Obama said last week that we need to increase tax rates onthe wealthiest Americans to obtain an extra $100 billion in tax revenue,and he blamed the failure of the supercommittee on the unwillingness ofthe Republicans to increase tax rates. Do you agree?If you...