Opinions

Why I Oppose Obama’s Health Care Plan

I am not going to bore you in this article with the technical points of budget scoring or anything like that. I approach my opposition from an ideological perspective and a personal one.

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Opinions

Why Obama’s Stimulus Package Does Not Really Benefit the Average Taxpayer or the Middle Class

The new stimulus package is looked at from a taxpayer’s perspective. A look at where the money is going to be divided.

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Opinions

Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan: Fresh Ideas Needed

President-elect Obama’s stimulus plan is deeply flawed. The plan proposes massive infrastructure spending and subsidizing wind and solar energy construction projects. These targeted spending directives are economically inefficient and will likely cost rather than create new jobs. There is a much better way to stimulate economic activity: across the board lowering of tax rates.

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US Politics

How Much is $700,000,000,000, Anyway?

On the congressional bail out deal. 9-26-08.

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Opinions

American Socialized Capitalism: The Wall Street Bailout

A critical review of the initial Bush Bailout Plan for Wall Street. It questions why it is so essential that we institute it in a week and why details are being kept so secretive. It wonders why the American taxpayer must bear the burden for business decision-makers risky actions. It also questions if this is part of the neo-conservative agenda, i.e. leave the country so mired in debt no new programs that can help people could be implemented.

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Opinions

California Wildfires: Why Fight Them?

An opinion that California subsidizes people to live in fire-prone areas, and a prediction that the costs of fighting the fires will continue to escalate in years to come.

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