This confused and bloated bill, in spite of its reckless assembly, was deliberately hinged on a single element: the federal requirement that you, and every citizen like you, purchase a health insurance plan. The individual mandate was a carefully negotiated and surprisingly in …
You would think that with one of the weakest economic recoveries on record, President Obama would be desperately searching for ways to promote economic growth. It is, after all, an election year.
The message was, sure, unemployment's still a little higher than it should be, and student loans are kind of expensive, and the housing market's pretty flat, but it's nothing that a little government "investment" in green jobs and rural broadband and retraining programs can't f …
Of course when Democrats talk about helping the poor, they don't mean with their own money. They mean using other people's money. Especially money from rich businessmen such as Romney. Romney, of course, has been blistered in the media and by Democrats for being greedy.
The President’s home state of Illinois is a good test case of this approach. The politicians rammed through a big tax increase early last year, supposedly to stabilize state finances. Unfortunately, Obamanomics isn’t working very well in Illinois.
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