Using the wrong standard when judging policy prescriptions can lead to unintended results.
Promising developments in the private medical marketplace point the way to a better approach to health care reform.
For their deceptive and harmful misuse of language, I’m not going to rake politicians and news organizations over the coals.
Government exists primarily to protect individual rights from encroachment by force or fraud.
If you think about it, public approval of social institutions tends to vary according to size.
A recent study says North Carolina could 42,000 jobs if Congress kills the “death tax.” The idea makes sense for all Americans.
Perdue doesn’t really think that the General Assembly is going to pass a $1.5 billion tax increase, with or without her support.
Often when a public official is suspected (indicted, convicted) of misbehavior, observers ask, “How could this happen to such a good man (or woman)?” Or the political chatterers bemoan how, once again, power is intoxicating ether.
Bringing the budget into line with reality doesn’t mean losing years of “progress” – because the spending binge of the past 15 years never accomplished what its proponents promised.
The more the public knows about public spending and taxes, the more they express fiscal conservatism.
Arm yourself with good information and sound fiscal and economic analysis. The next few weeks promise to be rocky ones.
