When you subsidize something to this degree, is it any surprise that demand goes up? =========== A simple fix could save taxpayers $40 billion without damaging the U.S. food supply. By Bruce Babcock And Vincent H. Smith Dec. 23, 2014 6:08 p.m. ET Over the past three years, proposals from the Obama administration and the House Budget Committee to reform the $80 billion-a-year federal crop-insurance... Read more
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Vermont’s Single Payer Washout
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, ObamaCareI did not see this covered in the NYT. ================= Dec. 22, 2014 7:10 p.m. ET Believe it or not, there really are liberals disappointed that ObamaCare does not involve more taxation and central planning of medicine. So be grateful for the state laboratories of federalism and in particular Vermont, where the purest progressive version of ObamaCare has imploded. Last week, in a reversal... Read more
The Double-Dipping Legal Scam
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | Big GovtIts a wonder that the country hasn’t gone bankrupt years ago with all this “corruption”. ========== Dec. 25, 2014 2:31 p.m. ET 119 COMMENTS House Speaker John Boehner says asbestos legal reform is a priority in the New Year, and it can’t come soon enough. Based on the details emerging from federal bankruptcy court, asbestos litigation fraud has reached new heights. Garlock Sealing Technologies is... Read more
The “Influence Economy”
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, US ConstitutionYes =========== From a Dec. 6 speech by Ed Gillespie at the Republican Party of Virginia’s annual meeting in Chantilly, Va.; the former Republican National Committee chairman was the GOP’s 2014 U.S. Senate candidate from the state: We can see an influence economy starting to take shape. CEOs are becoming less concerned about inventing the right products, targeting the right markets and hiring... Read more
Watch Out for That Puddle
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Environment, US ConstitutionThis is one example of why the Founders created ‘checks and balances’. ========== Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a rule redefining the “waters of the United States” that are subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act. The two agencies recently finished collecting public comments on their draft rule and are deciding how to... Read more
Crumbling infrastructure is a sign of lost collective faith
December 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, EconomicsA story worth your time. Mr. Sommers presents some great, albeit challenging, opportunities for both the private and public sectors. =========== Crumbling infrastructure is a sign of lost collective faith – FT.com.
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