“Freedom to Farm”: GOP Hypocrisy – then and now
In a comment to a Mark Thoma post regarding U.S. farm subsidies, Brad Setser gently reminds me not to fall for the Cato and Heritage spin on the Federal Agricultural…
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The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…estimate by The Wall Street Journal, Sanders’ spending plans would cost $18 trillion over 10 years, increasing the federal government’s size by roughly a third. He would create a single-payer…
Train Drain
…ones while also creating deep subsidies for many forms of domestic manufacturing, particularly computer chips and green technology. Responding to these incentives as well as to the supply chain fragilities…
Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
…bother to read the label. It’s not a chart of total foreign aid, just humanitarian aid — which is about one-sixth of one percent of federal spending. Overall, by the way, America…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…But the article discusses in frenzied fashion a case that will be argued on appeal next week at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate court based in…
Starve the state; support traditional families (only)
…lower-middle-class families to vote Republican, which means they are ultimately voting against their own economic interests for a party that wants all the benefits of the federal government to accrue…
What Can Democrats Do Now?
…refocused message that appeals to the masses. I struggle with the concern of whether Democrats can clarify and better define their misleading “woke/progressive” label. There are so many explanations of what…