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In a column today on how Democrats demagogue so-called “women’s issues,” she makes a point that one rarely hears about how the tax code is rigged against married women:
Most married women are second-earners. That means their income is added to that of their husband’s, and thus taxed at his highest marginal rate. So the married […]

Bloomberg has noted that the 2008 presidential candidates on both sides of the political spectrum have been relied on themes from past when conveying their stance on issues. For Republicans this means Ronald Reagan and a return to Reaganomics when talking about the economy and government spending.
A return to the ideas that drove policy under […]

Somewhat strangely, Fred Thompson seems to think so.

An editorial in today’s L.A. Times addresses proposed ozone regulations by starting with an alarmist bang: “The stuff you’re breathing could kill you.”  The piece then goes on to assert that new ozone regs should be put into place without even hinting at the potential costs of implementation.  Carter Wood’s got a succinct debunking over […]

Salon.com has a piece on Bjorn Lomborg, who has been one of the most outspoken and widely read critics of global warming alarmism.
Bjørn Lomborg drives people crazy. The tale of the controversy that swarmed his 2001 book, “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” in which the native Dane argued that many environmental problems were overblown, has been widely […]

Over at the Hill’s Congress blog, a place where legislators get to post substanceless political boilerplate, Charles Rangel blathers on:

Five years after the last recession ended, we still have higher poverty, lower wages and more uninsured. We need to change our economic course. Our focus should be on supporting working families, rather than […]

The New York Times runs what I can only surmise must have been an Onion story that mysteriously slipped into the NYT layout:
The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving. They and smaller […]

The New York Times has an article today on the impending expiration of a number of low mortgage “teaser” rates on adjustable-rate mortgages.  Basically, several million people agreed to mortgages with low initial payments, but the payments are about to jump, and there are fears (probably at least somewhat accurate) that many won’t be able […]

Bruce Bartlett has a good piece on the “fair tax” in the Wall Street Journal.

For those who never heard about it, the FairTax is a national retail sales tax that would replace the entire current federal tax system. It was originally devised by the Church of Scientology in the early 1990s as a […]

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who is known for his single payer universal health program in Massachusetts, has drastically altered his position by outlining a plan that relies on tax breaks and free market solutions rather than government mandates:
Mr. Romney plans to focus on tax breaks and streamlining regulations, policies his advisers say would essentially create […]