Monthly Archives: November 2017

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The Special Interest Spread

By Henry Oliner The life force of the swamp is the tax system.  It has grown monumentally complex from the thousands of lobbyist swamp creatures and the thousands of special interests who have learned how to thrive in the hazardous

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Regulatory Capture

from Gene Epstein’s departing column at Barron’s- Keep Asking the Big Questions: I often paraphrase Winston Churchill on democracy when confronting a critic of the financial markets: They’re the worst way to allocate capital investment, except for all the others. The

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The Dictated Truth

from Rupert Darwall in National Review, The Spiral of Silence: One-sided media reporting is a striking feature of the climate and energy debate. “Climate denier” and “tool of malign fossil-fuel interests” are epithets used to delegitimize dissent and quash diversity

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The Lobbying Principle

From my article in today’s American Thinker, Save the Swamp: If the per capita cost of government is x, then every deduction, credit, and tax benefit awarded to one party comes at the expense of another.  The main function of

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