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As my colleague Doug Bandow pointed out this morning, today’s Washington Post has an analysis about the uncertain prospects of GM ever making taxpayers whole again. It is a very similar analysis to the one I gave in this L.A. Times Dust-Up installment four weeks ago, although I find prospects unlikely, rather than just uncertain.
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A column in the Washington Post makes an excellent general observation about how taxes on business are actually paid by people. The piece also cites a couple of examples, including an explanation of why the Administration’s big tax hike on American multinational firms will backfire - which is the same argument I made in this […]
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The president and his appointees have expressed their hope that Government Motors will eventually pay back taxpayers for their “forced investment” in the company. But there aren’t many cases of this sort of lemon socialism actually paying off.
Now most everyone connected with GM is admitting the same thing. Reports the Washington Post:
If a new General Motors emerges from […]
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Last week, I had the opportunity to testify before the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation on the topic of “cybersecurity.” I have been reluctant to opine on it because of its complexity, but I did issue a short piece a few months ago arguing against government-run cybersecurity. That piece was cited prominently […]
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The U.S. is not yet out of Iraq, but American forces have pulled back from Iraqi cities. Iraq’s future increasingly is in the hands of Iraqis. And most Iraqis appear to be celebrating.
Reports the Washington Post:
This is no longer America’s war.
Iraqis danced in the streets and set off fireworks Monday in impromptu celebrations of a […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to decide in its current term the campaign finance case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Instead, the Court issued an order that the case should be reargued. The parties in the reargument should address the question of whether the Court should overrule two of its earlier decisions. […]
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