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The rich pay more than their fair share in taxes. In fact, all of us would benefit by deep, across-the-board tax cuts that include relief for the wealthy. That’s right – you read that correctly. I can practically hear the ...
Read More »Sports must still compete for leisure dollars
Super Bowl XLIV will be played in Miami on Feb. 7 to determine this season’s National Football League champion. But the NFL was involved in a very different contest on Jan. 13. It was a legal battle before the U.S. ...
Read More »Good riddance to the death tax? Not so fast
We all hope for a healthy and prosperous 2010. But if a business owner were to depart this earth for what William Shakespeare called the “undiscovered country,” one is left wondering just how pricey that final journey might turn out ...
Tagged with: death dax Estate Tax
Read More »Economists shouldn’t back health care
Can liberals be good economists? That question came to mind reading a Nov. 17 letter on health care policy addressed to President Barack Obama signed by 23 economists. These individuals noted that “we write as economists to stress the potential ...
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Read More »Public policy must help small business
Forget about big business. Push the consumer aside. Government? Oh please. When it comes to innovation, economic growth and job creation, small and midsized businesses are where the action is in the U.S. economy. After all, according to the Small ...
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Read More »Health care proposal limits personal freedom
The health care policy debate touches on various issues, including access to and the affordability of quality care. But many people – including assorted policymakers – forget it’s also about freedom. At its best, government protects individual freedom. For example, ...
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Read More »Perhaps it’s time to privatize the Postal Service
You know the U.S. Postal Service is inefficient when President Barack Obama takes a jab. After all, the president is a guy who apparently thinks there is little that government cannot do. Can government restructure the entire health care system? ...
Tagged with: Barack Obama mail delivery U.S. Postal Service
Read More »The Democrats, it seems, are addicted to raising taxes
What’s the deal with Democrats and higher taxes? Once they gain political power, it’s like some kind of addiction. They seem driven to raise taxes, particularly on upper-income earners. Recall that soon after Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, ...
Tagged with: Barach Obama Democrats health care reform taxes
Read More »It’s the perfect time for immigration reform
Remember when immigration reform was the hottest political issue around, and seemingly everyone on the planet listened when Alan Greenspan spoke about the economy? It wasn’t too long ago. But the rough economy pushed immigration to the back burner. And ...
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Read More »A new American Motors isn’t the answer
When I was a young kid, my family drove a white Rambler station wagon. Ramblers were made by the American Motors Corp. Some might ask: Who? American Motors ceased to exist when it was absorbed by Chrysler in 1987. Chrysler’s ...
Tagged with: Barack Obama Chrysler Lee Iacocca
Read More »Entrepreneurs needed to keep the job engine running
The jobs story in the United States has been ugly since late 2007. That in turn means the story for entrepreneurship and small business has been pretty ugly as well. After all, small businesses truly are the engines of job ...
Tagged with: economy jobs Office of Advocacy Small Business Administration U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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