Good (and Bad) Ideas From the Deficit Panel
Over at Heartland’s FIRE Policy News, Eli Lehrer has gone through some of the recommendations from the deficit panel. If you haven’t been following this piece of the news cycle, it’s a great roundup of...
View ArticleSocial Security is in Worse Shape than the White House Says
Here is a letter to the editor I submitted to USA Today the other day and was recently published. If Jacob Lew, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, believes what he wrote,...
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Today’s Obama Speech: Nearly as Deceitful as it was Dull
My initial reactions to Obama’s speech: 1) Dull, dull, dull! Nothing inspiring or even interesting. 2) He spent more time and gave more detail attacking the opposing plan than he spent and gave on his...
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Policies Meant To Achieve Equality Are Very Unfair To The Least Equal
[First posted at Forbes.] Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth In America, quoting President Obama saying: We’ve...
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If They Would Just Think Anew
Fundamental, structural, entitlement reforms, proven to work in the real world, would provide far better benefits for seniors and the poor, while slashing future entitlement spending. Indeed, over the...
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Overcoming Obama’s Obduracy
President Obama said at his increasingly notorious press conference on Monday, “America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they have already...
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Obama and the Pirates
Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion. You probably heard again the other night in his State of the Union...
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Central Banks Buy Gold, Print Money
Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have participated. Many...
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One Day in the Life of Federal Government
I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take more, give less....
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Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Obama’s 2014 Budget Plan
President Barack Obama released his 2014 budget proposal, which would spend $3.8 trillion. The budget contains a tax hike of some $800 billion, including a requirement that “millionaires” pay at least...
View ArticleWhy I Hate Chained CPI, and You Should Too
[Editor's note: Listen to Steve talk The Take with Charles Butler about chained CPI and other aspects of President Obama's 2014 budget with the player above.] President Obama today unveiled his...
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Entitlement Reform, Obama-Style, Can’t Even be Called Bogus
The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as to empower...
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President Obama’s Predictable Budget: More Spending, More Tax Increases
President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, “more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax...
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Farm Bill: After Three Failed Decades of No Reform, Isn’t it Time to Try A...
The Great Wall of Sugar – Until Now Insurmountable Unwinding the government’s crop protectionism regime has been a 30+ year-long nightmare mess. We who wish to make it all go away have in that time...
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Heartland Daily Podcast: Peter Ferrara on How Social Security is Going Broke,...
It's like putting your money in a bank. But instead of the bank paying you interest...you pay the bank interest.(Read more...)Categories: Budgets/Taxes Economics Featured FIRE Podcast TaxesTags:...
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German Government Fights Citizen Preference to have Fewer Children
A recent New York Times article looked at the declining population “crisis” in Germany. A recent census indicated that Germany has lost 1.5 million citizens since its peak and could lose another 15...
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Predicting America’s Future
One of the great parlor games of pundits, politicians, journalists, and just about everyone else is predicting the future. There’s a wonderful book, “The Experts Speak”, that is filled, page after...
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Heartland Daily Podcast: America 3.0 with Michael Lotus – Part II
Michael Lotus offers up his hopeful perspective in Part II of the Heartland Daily Podcast about his new book titled, America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century.(Read...
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“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by...
The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted in the media as indicating the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country. The number of poor...
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Countless Government Operator Errors – And Obama Wants to Give Us More
We are currently hobbled by a whole host of federal government debacles. An endless litany of Government Operator Errors (GOEs). Many are chronic. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are staring...
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