Unlike each of his three predecessors, President Bush did not raise taxes. George W. Bush, a wartime President, had a smaller federal government and lower taxes relative to the economy than each of his three predecessors, historically small deficits, no tax increases, and 5.3% average unemployment. He vetoed a farm bill and two health bills for spending too much. He proposed structural and incremental reforms to Social
Big Government, Big Business and Big Labor are in cahoots. Big Government puts up barriers through laws and regulations that only Big Business can jump over. Big Government also colludes with Big Labor to make sure that only Big Business can hire the newly expensive Big Laborers that are controlled by Big Labor Bosses. Who loses? Free Local Governments, Free Small Business and Free Individuals - Growth is stymied - America loses. The main effect
Down with Big Government, Big Business, Big Labor
Down with top-down governance. America has succeeded as a bottoms-up nation - and its people know it. Michael Barone from the Washington Examiner: Scads of liberals gleefully predicted that the financial crisis and deep recession would destroy Americans' faith in markets and increase their confidence in Big Government. Many conservatives gloomily feared they were right. Hasn't happened. If anything, public opinion has moved in the other direction, with most Americans rejecting the stimulus package and
We know that Congressional leadership lied to get the nightmare that Obamacare has already become passed. Nancy Pelosi needed the CBO to tell her members that the healthcare law would reduce the deficit. But as Keith Heneesey points out below, how many members would have voted for the thing if the CBO reported out that the new law would "raise taxes" by $525 billion and increase government spending by $410 billion - ouch. Well, five months too late
Freedom took a hit in 2009. One year into the Obama presidency and America is no longer classified as having a “free” economy, according to the 16th annual Index of Economic Freedom, a joint report by the The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The land of the free and the home of the brave is now only “mostly free” for the first time in the report’s history.
In this Christian Science Monitor/ December 28, 2009 essay Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz argue that only free and open markets, not government regulation, can clean up the mess that markets sometimes make. Unfortunately, none of their common sense will rub off on the Obama administration because they are all solidly behind the view that only the technocrats - they themselves - can save Americans from the mess that the markets have purportedly led us into. Two camps have fought the
Executive Summary This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video analyzes how excessive government spending undermines economic performance. While acknowledging that a very modest level of government spending on things such as "public goods" can facilitate growth, the video outlines eight different ways that that big government hinders prosperity. This video focuses on theory and will be augmented by a second video looking at the empirical evidence favoring smaller government.
