Political Realities

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....

Entitlement and Gratitude

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...

Tax Thoughts 2017 12 21

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...

Entitlements for the Non Poor

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...