by Brian Garst | Aug 10, 2010 | Blogs, Constitution, Economic Growth, Taxation
With the public unconvinced of the wisdom of soaking the rich, the latest hot idea floating around in statist circles is not to soak the rich, but rather the really, super-duper, ultra rich. In a class-warfare filled screed, James Surowiecki wrote in the New Yorker on...
by Brian Garst | Aug 6, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care
While the public is rightly skeptical of granting our government overlords unlimited power – which they are busy gathering for themselves nonetheless – there’s one group of people who think it would be just dandy to grant limitless power to the...
by Brian Garst | Aug 2, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Taxation
Statists view “the rich” as nothing more than ATM machines for funding big-government welfare states. They think they can take as much as they like – they’re rich, after all! – without consequences. Once they empty the machine, the bank...
by Brian Garst | Jul 20, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Iain Murray writes at the Washington Examiner that advocacy groups Change.org and the Alliance for Climate Protection are arguing – in an email entitled, “Don’t Let BP Win!” – that “Stalling climate and energy legislation would be a big win for oil...
by Brian Garst | Jul 13, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
Florida Senator Bill Nelson is seizing on the BP oil spill as an excuse to pass federal “price gouging” legislation. It’s certainly nothing new to see anti-market politicians stirring up populist rage with these so-called “price gouging”...
