Category Archives: GOP
Like Obamacare, the Senate’s health insurance bill transfers wealth but less so
If you want a case study in the primary role of government, the latest health care insurance industry bill (H.R. 1628, the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017) provides one. Senate Democrats and Republicans yesterday having been throwing the predictable barbs … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Care Reconciliation Act, Democrats, healthcare, Republicans
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What the GOP has wrong about taxation
This week’s print edition of The Atlanta Voice provides two Associated Press stories discussing the Democratic Party’s fifty-state strategy and the GOP’s about face on fiscal responsibility. In one article, the Democrats’ “Resistance Summer” is designed to organize and expand … Continue reading
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Martin Luther King, blacks, Vietnam, & Russia
Blacks have come a long way. On 4 April 1968, their civil rights warrior, Martin Luther King, Jr., was cut down by an assassin’s bullet while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. The Tet Offensive had only occurred three … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, GOP, Martin Luther King, Russia, Vietnam
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Obamacare vs. Trumpcare: As far as the markets are concerned, a difference that makes no difference is no difference
Whether Obamacare is replaced with Trumpcare or not, the following scenario for insurance companies is probable. First, if Obamacare is replaced with Trumpcare, insurance company stock values will take a hit in the very short run. As the sector adjusts … Continue reading
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Low approval rating and U.S. being “not so innocent” gives Trump centrist opportunity
Donald Trump has a low approval rating. According to data cited by Time, 53% of Americans disapprove of how the 45th president is doing his job while 44% give him the thumbs up. Comments made last weekend about similarities between … Continue reading
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Congress should require the FCC stick to spectrum issues
The Federal Communications Commission should stick to managing spectrum, a scarce resource that fuels next generation wireless communications networks. Managing the distribution of scarce resources and getting that resource into activity that provides the highest economic value is among government’s … Continue reading
First Blush: Trump’s independence key to reducing regulations
Pundits expected the Republican Party to implode, but with the Democratic Party’s failure to craft a message that appealed to working poor and rural whites, it is the Democratic brand that is now under serious fire. This failure to connect … Continue reading
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Pluralism, Capitalism, and .@RealBenCarson
Ben Carson has not demonstrated that he understands pluralism or that he can craft a political economy suitable for investors and the flow of capital to businesses or households. For these reasons he should not be president of a political-economic-social … Continue reading
