Party Members: Work Together

by Art Smith

We’ve kept it pretty loose here at TCR with regard to the continued havoc being wrought by Hillary Clinton against her party. Every day, the lack of her stepping down extends further and further the demise of Democrats and Obama’s chance to manipulate his...

Congress Should Not Micro-Manage The Economy

by Art Smith

Not so much because tinkering with the economy on a regular basis is messy as much as having Congress doing the tinkering is just dangerous. Remembering that the Prime Directive of nearly every member of Congress is “Do nothing that interfere with my...

Finished, and Convinced: The FairTax Makes Sense

by Art Smith

You may recall a few months ago I mentioned I had started reading The FairTax Book. It only took about 5 or 6 hours of reading time, but it kept bouncing around in priority, and I just finished a couple of days ago. It is really tough to explain the whole idea in a...

Des Moines Taxpayers Win

by Art Smith

Thankfully, the voters of Polk County in Iowa have managed to do better than the legislators in the Iowa General Assembly. While the state is busy raising as many of our taxes as they could get away with, the voters, the people that gave them the power (at least in...

POTUS Election 2008, Taxation and Wealth Redistribution

by Fersboo

I’ve been subscribing to Fortune magazine for about 15 years now, and in the last couple of years I’ve given serious thought to letting my subscription go for something more substantive and/or right-leaning, as I’ve watched the editorial staff at...

Now Social Security?

by Fersboo

Last week I commented on the unspoken (at least by anyone who wants to be President) state of Medicare.  Now it appears that Social Security is a mess too.  (I know, big surprise!)  In the March 31, 2008 edition of Fortune, Allan Sloan reports that in about 10 years,...