FreedomTalks

For those who think curbing wasteful spending is a priority, the rumor mill is sending some bad signals right now.  First, on the campaign to put earmark-opponent extraordinaire Jeff Flake on the appropriations committee – Make It Flake! – the word is coming back that he’s a longshot at best. Here’s Ben Pershing in the [...]

The Politico reports:
 Fiscally conservative Republicans in the House and Senate are complaining bitterly that GOP leaders are shutting them out of the bipartisan effort to quickly pass an economic stimulus package.
Gee, there’s a surprise.   Pardon my Clintonism, but I feel their pain.
These conservatives, many of whom helped frame the Republican fiscal message over the [...]

The CBO has released a new report [PDF] on the current economic situation and possibilities for economic stimulus.  I’m still processing a lot of it, but it seems to me that the quick takeaway is this:

The economic situation is not as bad as it feels.  Though the risk of recession has increased, the report tells [...]

This is excellent. Cato’s Dan Mitchell give s a quick video lesson on why tax competition helps everyone, and on the dangers of international bureaucrats using tax cartels in attempts to influence American tax rates:

Clear and concise, all the basics of the issue come across in just 8 minutes.

I think that the presidential candidates, as well as the Bush Administration, should take a few econ classes. At the very least though, they should read the Wall Street Journal.
If they looked today, they’d find Alan Reynolds’ great op-ed about their stimulus packages.
Reynolds discusses the fact that the economic stimulus packages proffered both by President [...]

The Republican Study Committee, comprised of more than 100 conservative Representatives, has released a statement on the fiscal stimulus package. The key bit:

Conservatives know that it is never a bad time to let families keep more of their own money. We are, in fact, the ones who have been leading that charge [...]

FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe recently wrote a much-discussed column on the problems with Gerson’s politics. And today, the former Bush speechwriter is at it again: Michael Gerson’s attack on Fred Thompson in the Post today is both misleading and indicative of pretty much everything that’s wrong with Gerson-style politics.
Gerson’s beef is with Thompson’s [...]

Here’s the Fox News report on that conference the FreedomWorks PAC co-hosted with the Club for Growth Wednesday, including a bit from our own Dick Armey:

Ezra Klein and I disagree on a great many things (though we found much to talk about in our recent Bloggingheads.tv discussion).  But one thing we can agree on is that the FairTax is a terrible, terrible idea. His column on the FairTax is up at The American Prospect today, and it’s well worth a [...]

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey appeared at an even FreedomWorks cosponsored with our friends at the Club for Growth in South Carolina.  The purpose was to warn conservatives in the state to be wary of the misguided fiscal policies being peddled by Republican primary candidate Mike Huckabee.  The New York Times has the scoop (and a [...]