It’s a day with a “Y” in it (check not your calendar – I’ve already checked mine). Which means in many places throughout $4-trillion-per-year Washington, D.C., there are recipients of massive cronyism – looking to keep their gravy trains a-rolling. They’d ordinarily take for granted that the cronyism would continue – and be looking to…
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Walmart and the founding Walton family have long been seen as conservative stalwarts. The Waltons have indeed contributed much money to conservative causes – much to the Left’s chagrin. Walmart has long been a Leftist bogeyman – in large part because they remain rightly, reasonably opposed to the unionization of their stores. Which drove the…
Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore are four big name Washington, D.C. free market economic “experts.” They have for decades been ensconced inside the Beltway – doling out their brands of reform. But as we have seen from nigh anyone who enters the belly of the DC Beast – people grow…
I like Bill Buckley, Frederic Bastiat, Milton Friedman and a whole host of other conservative luminaries. But I am a conservative first and foremost – because I loathe lies and liars. And Leftism – is a giant lie. All the lies told by all of Leftism’s practitioners – are told in service of hiding the…
I have long liked former Texas Congressman, Senator and presidential candidate Phil Gramm. I in fact voted for him in the 1996 Republican presidential primary. The one time I got to meet him – years thereafter, at a UBS event (with whom he’d landed a post-politics gig) – I told him I had cast a…
Congress hasn’t done major tax reform since 1986. We are WAY past due. And it is WAY past necessary. The current tax code is an economy-stifling combination of sky-high rates – and stupid mandates and stipulations. Most of what our government has ensconced in tax law – works to drive businesses out of business and…
Our nation’s tax code is a nightmare mess of thorny brambles. Interwoven with other thorny brambles. Behind a high wall of thorny brambles. It is anti-citizen. And it is anti-anything-productive citizens choose to do – up to and especially including engaging in anything having to do with business. Many, many facets of our tax code…