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By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
The two most recent first quarter deficits have been about $100 billion higher than the average annual deficits run from 2002 to 2008.
Utah legislators call for fiscal federalism.
Small businesses are citing government as the problem, but the media ignores the story.
Fannie Mae […]
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By Daniel J. Mitchell
Since many of the politicians in Washington want America to be more like Europe (including complete government-run health care instead of the partially government-run health care system we have now), it’s worth contemplating what that would mean for the economy.
America today is richer than Western Europe. Indeed, per-capita living standards are about […]
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By Chris Moody
Republicans and Democrats are both missing the point of true health care reform: “Health care reform cannot just be about giving more stuff to more people. It should be about actually ‘reforming’ the system. That means scrapping the current bills, and crafting the type of reform that makes consumers responsible for their health care decisions.”
Alan […]
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By Jim Harper
Here’s a great conversation at Slate.com about Shane Harris’ new book The Watchers.
We’ll be having the author here at Cato on March 10th for a similar discussion of his book and the growth of the surveillance state.
Register here.
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By Neal McCluskey
On the heels of exploiting the name of perhaps the world’s all-time greatest free-marketeer, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has decided to cut right to the chase and abuse the term “free market” itself. Writing in the Washington Post as part of his ongoing effort to demonize banks and push the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act over the finish line, […]
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By Daniel Griswold
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-MS, thinks so. According to CongressDaily, Taylor is about to introduce a two-page bill that would withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Taylor blames the agreement with Canada and Mexico for the loss of 5 million manufacturing jobs since it was enacted in 1994. This is […]
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Nice health care lecture
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