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Cigarette maker spends big to fight per-pack tax

  • Politics
July 7, 2011June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

If we are going to add to the expense of cigarettes, I can suggest better things to do with the extra dollar per pack than put it in the government coffers. 1. Have the manufacturers (or sellers) put a Ziploc […]

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Who is tossing whom over a cliff?

  • Economics,
  • Politics
July 6, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This column by Chris Laureys of New Jersey is one of the best I’ve ever seen on the distortions of our current welfare state. Related: “Who is tossing whom over a cliff?” by Chris Laureys at USAToday.com

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Democrats Are 1955 Republicans

  • Politics
June 29, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Reinforcing my earlier comment on Barack Obama’s allergy to antithesis, here is Michael Lind claiming that Obama is, for practical purposes, an Eisenhower Republican.  As for the so-called social issues, Allan Carlson, in The American Way, pointed out that the […]

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Beyond Red vs. Blue

  • Politics
May 18, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Interesting. I scored New Coalition Democrat, not conventional liberal. Related: “Beyond Red vs. Blue” at PewResearchCenter

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Life in the Slow Lane

  • Politics
May 15, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Our infrastructure has been squeezed between resistance to raising taxes on the one hand, and welfare demands on the other. Related: “Life in the Slow Lane”  by The Economist

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Once Again, the Laffer Curve Curves

  • Economics,
  • Politics
May 9, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Barone, whom I usually respect, confuses, like most Republicans, the issue about tax rates. Yes, when Kennedy cut the top rate from 90% to 70%, federal revenues did actually go up. And when Reagan cut the top rate to […]

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Progressive Consumption Taxes

  • Politics
April 26, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I agree with Frank, not with Henderson.  I have a lot less problem with progressive consumption taxes on the rich than with progressive income taxes.  That way if the rich use their money constructively, for capital investment, saving, or philanthropy, […]

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David Stockman, Again

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 17, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article, David Stockman, although both a hard-money man and a social liberal, comes out against continuing the G. W. Bush tax cuts! Read it to find out why. Related: “The Triumph of Politics Over Economics” by Nick Gillespie […]

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2011 is not 1995

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 16, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I confess that I was hoping that 2011 would be 1995.  After all, we had just climbed out of a serious recession in the earlier part of that decade – dwarfed by the more recent one of course, but big […]

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Club Wagner

  • Politics
April 15, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have asked to become a member of Club Wagner. I cannot be both that and a California Republican, that has been made abundantly clear. Related: “Club Wagner” by Douglas Holtz-Eakin at NYTimes.com Blogs Related: “Conservatives for Higher Taxes” by […]

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