TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Following up on Tuesday's post, Democrats Propose Afghanistan War Tax -- "Pay As You Fight": Sarah Palin, Facebook: Really? A tax on national defense? I hear liberal Congressional proposals and I, like most Americans, wonder if they’re serious. We’re going to put a price tag on security? With Congress and...
EconomistMom.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
(War bonds ad from the 1940s, from “Found in Mom’s Basement” blog.) As Bruce Bartlett explains in his Forbes column, when a war is deficit financed, people tend to (way) underestimate its economic cost (like all other things that are deficit financed), and that tends to tilt the subjective cost-benefit analysis done in the heads of [...]
Craig Cheslog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Bruce Bartlett has written another must-read column in Forbes about House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey (D-Wisc.)'s demand that any expansion of the war in Afghanistan be paid through a tax increase and not by adding to the national debt....
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... are gained as we withdraw from Iraq, but the costs are quickly absorbed by the war in Afghanistan.Bruce Bartlett on the growing interest in returning to the historical norm.The White House has given no indication of how it plans to pay for expanding the war in Afghanistan. More than likely, it will follow the Bush precedent and just put it all on the national credit card. But at least...
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... on October 1, 2008. This second point has led to some spirited - and conflicting - responses, with Bruce Bartlett attacking me from the left and Mustango attacking me from the right . Let’s deal with Mustango’s criticisms. He argues that budgets are passed by Congress, presumably implying that Nancy Pelosi, et al, should be blamed. The Speaker of the House is a complete...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... past decade - is vital if we are to save capitalism from itself. But Beck is not Richard Posner or Bruce Bartlett or Charles Murray, whose ideas are worth taking seriously. As Charles Murray puts it: "Beck uses tactics that include tiny snippets of film as proof of a person’s worldview, guilt by association, insinuation, and occasionally outright goofs like the fake quote. To put...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... most effective tools. Literate people should boycott books. Start with his ! Hat tip on the link: Bruce Bartlett .
Lawrance G. Lux (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I am not saying that I agree with Bruce Bartlett about this , but do feel that Medicare Proscription D has cost American patients more than they ever received in benefit. I, a User of the great program, find that Drug companies have raised Prices without restriction, Insurers have raised premiums without restriction, and most Patients are simply paying about the same as before; but with...
Craig Cheslog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Bruce Bartlett posts a must-read column at Capital Gains and Games targeting all of those Republicans who today oppose health care reform but in 2003 voted for the Medicare prescription drug benefit as unbelievable deficit hypocrites. As Bartlett explains: Just...
Bright Rights (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Bruce Bartlett in Forbes, on the "Republican Deficit Hypocrisy" : It astonishes me that a party enacting anything like the drug benefit would have the chutzpah to view itself as fiscally responsible in any sense of the term. As I seem to on most things these days, I agree with Bruce Bartlett. Read the whole thing.
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Bruce Bartlett in Forbes: The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn’t surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps at one time they were, but those days are long gone. This fact became blindingly obvious to me six years ago [...]
