Both Clinton and McCain’s call for a gas tax holiday would make a neglible impact on your wallet and is nothing more than an election year stunt to win votes. Clinton campaign spokesperson Geoff Garin said in a conference call this week that the proposal would save each driver $70. The Clinton campaign did not […]
City planners aren’t very smart sometimes, or at least, don’t fully grasp the concepts of cause and effect… Dallas had anticipated an annual $14.8 million for red-light-running fines, money essential to keeping the cameras running — before people stopped running lights and reduced violations more than 50 percent at some locations.
Posted here because I couldn’t do a good job explaining this at dinner last night: Why is competition between health insurance companies useful? This is not the world we live in, but it is the world we should aim for and I am more than willing to consider how government might get us there. (Mandating
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Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black
On Brad Delong’s blog Richard Eskow Talks to David Cutler: David Cutler: I’d like to start with a general comment…. Two possible reasons why people don’t have health coverage are usually given. One is that the uninsured are gaming the system. The other is that they can’t afford it and don’t know where to get
She’s willing to garnish people’s wages if they refuse to buy health insurance even though they can afford it. Hmm, i thought the government would coerce us into a socialized health care system by raising taxes to cover the cost. In a day dominated by familiar stump speeches, Hillary Clinton made news by saying she
Who really loves their cell phone provider? I moved from Sprint to T-mobile 3 years ago because you can use unlocked phones and they use a standard that’s recognized abroad. In practical terms, this means when we had to replace Staci’s phone, we simply moved the SIM card from her old phone to the new
The Congressional Budget office released a report on the costs of illegal immigration for state and local governments [HT: Marginal Revolution] Unfortunately, the report is only available as a PDF file, but its not overyly long, approximately 13 pages in length. It estmiates the spending by state and local governments due to undocumented immigrants in
" I challenge Mr. Henn to defend the federal budget as being a shining example of long-term planning for the greater good." – Cafe Hayek
It’s a scary thought, and something only a few years ago I thought I’d only read in the Onion, but I just read an article about a US Citizen, born in California, that had been wrongly deported to Mexico. Think it can’t happen to you? Short of always carrying your Passport, or Citizenship Certficate, if