W. James Antle III
Yuval Levin nails it here: Imagine if Paul Ryan had produced his budget proposal and put it before his committee, but then John Boehner killed it, insisting that the House should not pass a budget of any kind so that…
Yesterday Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) unveiled a budget proposal that differs in many details than the House-passed budget sponsored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). The Toomey plan balances the budget faster, but is also leaves Medicare and…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — the speaker of the House when Obamacare was passed — has an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune highlighting her constitutional confusion. Thinking she has spotted Republican inconsistency, she raps jurisdiction stripping (or “court stripping,”…
This morning the House Budget Committee held hearings about strengthening the social safety net. In his opening statement, Chairman Paul Ryan pointed to the country’s experience with welfare reform in arguing that reforms of entitlement programs can benefit their recipients:…
In my column on today’s main site, I mention Brian Beutler’s defense of the Buffett Rule. He argues that the media is getting the story wrong, because the minimum tax proposal was never intended to be a stand-alone solution to…
When the Congressional Budget Office and similar entitities churn out their projections on how much revenue a tax policy change will bring in, they often assume that the change won’t have an impact on the economy. This is called “static…
Three days before federal income taxes were due, President Barack Obama declared that tax increases can grow the economy. “Now, this is not just about fairness. This is also about growth,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “It’s about…
A few quick thoughts on the passing scene. 1. The allegations that Arizona Republican congressional candidate Paul Babeau threatened to have a Mexican illegal immigrant boyfriend deported (he denies everything from the deportation threat to knowing that the fellow was…
Jonathan Alter has a column arguing that Paul Ryan’s budget cuts are un-Republican, citing everything from Lincoln-era Hamiltonian internal improvements to Ronald Reagan signing on to a few tax increases: The idea of using government money to invest in the…
My review of Debacle, a book by Grover Norquist and John Lott on Obama’s economic legacy, is running in today’s Washington Times. My reaction to Rick Santorum’s withdrawal from the Republican presidential race ran in the Guardian. My take on…
