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March 24, 2009
Is Congress Facing Its Own Katrina Moment?
So now the Democrat-controlled Congress is pumping money out of Washington in an effort to stem a catastrophe—and lots of bad press.
March 19, 2009
Workers of the World
Bank of America just canceled contracts to hire a batch of foreign-born business students, because Congress said its bailout recipients (the “TARP” money) should hire American first.
March 17, 2009
The Exclusion Intrusion
The New York Times reports that the Obama administration is open to the idea of taxing some employee health insurance benefits.
March 12, 2009
Don’t Throw Good Money After Bad Municipal Broadband Networks
Officials at the NTIA (the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration), the FCC and the USDA, (yes, the Department of Agriculture) held a meeting earlier this week to begin to decide how to spend the $7.
March 10, 2009
Mr. President, Could You Explain That One More Time?
“If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy, then we must address the crushing cost of healthcare this year, in this administration,” President Barack Obama recently claimed.
March 6, 2009
We Told You So! Continue to Say "No" to Municipal Broadband Networks
The history of municipal broadband projects, especially municipal wireless programs, is a history of hubris, mismanagement and failure. Such projects have been plagued by (among other things) underestimates of costs and overestimates of subscriber take up. As federal officials consider disbursing billions of taxpayer dollars to extend broadband coverage to unserved and underserved areas, they should be wary of funding municipal broadband programs.
March 5, 2009
Let Us Read the Bill
Forty-two seconds a page—that is how long members of Congress were given to read, understand, evaluate and consider all the implications for the largest spending bill in history.
March 3, 2009
President Obama Is No Jack Kennedy (or Clinton, or Reagan)
The election of Barack Obama has sometimes been characterized as a return of John F.
February 26, 2009
The High Court on High Taxes
In a desperate scramble to balance their state budgets, state legislators in many states have seized upon the idea of “increasing revenue” (read: raising taxes) rather than taking actions to live within their means.
February 24, 2009
Worse Than You Can Imagine
We thought we should highlight a recent USA Today story because, well, the public needs to know … and the politicians are trying to ignore it.
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