In this and the next post we will examine two specific ways that our Progressive government destroys jobs by making our businesses more costly than their international competitors. Those added costs reduce profits, thereby decreasing investment and crippling new job creation. Of course when they kill jobs, they also diminish tax revenue for our local, state and federal governments. Every U.S. public company which reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission must now implement a new...
Liberal Progressive Policies
The Greecehopper and the Ants
For those of a certain age, this Disney video will be familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1DgihKHVI. Please give it a watch. For an individual, household, city, or sovereign nation, it really is not much more complicated than this. With so much practical good sense in the world, from at least the time of Aesop (who was, ironically, a Greek, writing 2,600 years ago), where have we gone wrong? Are we not teaching? Or not learning? And what if there were no ants? See Joseph Shattan’s...
The President’s Credit Rating
The President is out on the campaign trail taking credit for the late, slow, economic recovery that we are finally experiencing. It’s like a delivery room doctor claiming that without him or her, there could be no baby. In fact, to add some extra hyperbole, it’s even worse. Given the President’s steady prescriptions of contraception by regulation, all night binges of spending, and threatened abortion by add-on taxation, it’s a miracle that there is a baby at all. Is it possible that we’re...
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