Editorials: Budgets and Taxes

Policies Meant To Achieve Equality Are Very Unfair To The Least Equal

Peter Ferrara
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November 29, 2012
Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

Taxpayer Protection Act rewards risky behavior

Steve Stanek
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November 22, 2012
Congress is considering another federal government intervention in the market for homeowners’ insurance — on top of federal and state-level programs that already are causing problems.

California, Illinois Double Down on Big Government

Steve Stanek
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November 15, 2012
A few days after the big election, and the smoke is clearing. We're beginning to see the most consequential vote of Nov. 6 probably wasn't the one for president of these United States.

Coercive, futile taxes not the answer for Cook County

Steve Stanek
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November 12, 2012
This is no way to solve budget problems caused by years of reckless spending.

The Short Pro-Growth Defense of Capitalism Romney Did Not Deliver in the Debate

Jim Lakely
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October 18, 2012
During Tuesday’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney interjected at the end of an exchange with President Obama that “government doesn’t create jobs.” He said it, I think, at least twice.

Obama's Coming Crash: The President's Recession Of 2013

Peter Ferrara
Newt Gingrich
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October 03, 2012
So far, Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. But if Obamanomics is not stopped, next year it will produce renewed recession.

Make pensions a defined-contribution program

Matthew Glans
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October 01, 2012
In response to “Low investment returns test S.D. budget” (Government & Politics, utsandiego.com, Sept.

Reining in pension costs

Matthew Glans
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September 29, 2012
On September 29, Policy Analyst, Matthew Glans, had a letter to the editor published in Crain's Chicago Business (circ. 45,667).

At Their Most Brazen

Peter Ferrara
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September 19, 2012
You can tell where the Obama campaign is worried that Romney is drawing blood, because it's made up a fairy tale totally disconnected from reality to address that concern.

Mitt Romney Is Right About the ‘Victims’ of Government

Jim Lakely
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September 18, 2012
Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at theInstitute for Policy Innovation and a