By Roberto Garabell
Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute devoted the time and and effort recently to analyze the most recently salary and benefits information published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is the kind of reporting we don’t get from the mass media, because it requires critical thinking.
Chris’s results are depressing, if not surprising:
“In [...]
After the Primary, It’s Not Politics as Usual (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)(0)
More info…Terrence O’Brien got his start in Chicago Democratic politics like so many of his peers and the generations that came before him, dutifully ringing doorbells to solicit votes for his state senator on the far North Side. He rose to coordinating other precinct captains for such candidates as a young Cook County state’s attorney [...]
Tax Competition: Governments Competing for Your Tax Dollars(0)
By Roberto Garabell
Tax competition is a term you are going to be hearing a lot in the next few years.
Low taxes create growth and prosperity; high taxes strangle it. Government that take a larger share of their nations wealth cause businesses to fail, citizens to become unemployed, and economics to shrink. Governments that take [...]
Heftel’s media role outshone his politics (Honolulu Advertiser)(0)
More info…As a political figure, Cec Heftel had his faults. He was stiff, not truly comfortable with the backslapping ho’omalimali that is so important in local politics. So, despite his insistence that he was done in by devious figures within the Democratic Party in his unsuccessful run for governor in 1986, the truth is more [...]
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