Debt Limit Watch! A Stealth Tax Hike > The return of the deduction phase-out gambit: The White House wants Republicans to agree to tax increases that no one wants to call tax increases, and for an insight into this political method let's focus on one proposal in particular—the phase-out of itemized deductions for upper-income taxpayers. We hope the tea party is paying attention, because this kind of maneuver is why people hate Washington. [ Hey politicrats! Try this one on us in current negotiations and we’ll try to get you gone! – JS ]
Legislation without Representation > Five Ways Obama Is Circumventing the Legislative Branch: The Obama Administration generally employs one of two strategies to legislate without—and often in spite of—congressional action: (1) administrative decree establishing a new federal rule, or (2) a refusal to enforce existing federal law. In five separate policy areas, Environmental Regulation, Labor Law, Immigration Law Selective Enforcement of Federal Law and Regulating the Internet ,the President and the federal agencies under his command have spurned congressional authority to achieve Obama’s objectives.
Compassion for the Poor is Meaningless Unless it's also Effective
We ought to define success by how many escape dependence on welfare to pursue their full potential as human beings. To measure our commitment to the poor by the number of dollars spent on antipoverty programs is to diminish human dignity.
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