Editorials: Budgets and Taxes

Obama's Calculated Deception

Peter Ferrara
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August 01, 2012
How the Obama campaign is trying to deceive you on the economy.

Milton Friedman, Father of School Choice

Joy Pullmann
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July 31, 2012
Louisiana's  10,000 kids clamoring for vouchers may never know it, but they owe their school  choice opp

A Century of Milton Friedman

S.T. Karnick
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July 31, 2012
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, who played an indispensable role in making the case for market freedom and individual liberty in the

How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

Peter Ferrara
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July 25, 2012
The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a resu

Obama's Surprising Tax Logic

S.T. Karnick
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July 20, 2012
Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about self-made wealthy people -- "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own" -- is a truism that ac

Obama Promised He Wouldn’t Raise Taxes On the Middle Class. He Lied.

Peter Ferrara
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July 19, 2012
When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, “I can make a firm pl

Obama Retracts Clinton Welfare Reforms

Peter Ferrara
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July 18, 2012
At one point in the Star Wars double trilogy, the character who starts out as a corrupt politician but morphs into an evil Sith Lord announces the suspension of the Republic in f

Obamanomics: The Final Nail In the Discredited Keynesian Coffin

Peter Ferrara
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July 12, 2012
Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action which says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits

Obamacare would also hike capital gains tax

Matthew Glans
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June 29, 2012
In “Relief from Taxmageddon” (Commentary, June 20), Emily Miller made a point that cannot be repeated often enough: Combined with the tax increases included in the Obama health care plan, allowing

Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies

Peter Ferrara
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June 28, 2012
President Obama’s June 14 address in Clevelandpresented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign.  We w