by Henry Oliner | May 1, 2024 | Politics
Permanent solutions to short term problems will create new problems. Reality is not optional. Our political differences often hinge on the different meanings we assign to words. Our political differences also depend on the different priorities we assign to issues....
by Henry Oliner | May 16, 2018 | Politics
Jonah Goldberg newest book, Suicide of the West will be released next week. This piece in National Review of the same name is a thesis of his book: The American Founding’s glory is that those English colonists took their cousins’ tradition, purified it into a...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 21, 2017 | Economics
by Henry Oliner The drop in corporate taxes is huge, even though it only makes us competitive with other nations, but what happens to this savings? If it is paid in dividends, it is taxed. If it is used to increase salaries, it is taxed. Corporate taxes are an...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 21, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs by John F Cogan (pp. 381-382). Stanford University Press. Kindle Edition: The data reveal just how far entitlements have departed from their original purpose of providing a measure...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 10, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
By Henry Oliner The High Cost of Good Intentions- A History of U.S. Entitlement Programs by John Cogan may be the first comprehensive look at the growth and dynamics of this government function. It is meticulously researched and documented, yet remains digestible for...
