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Presidential Campaign 10-30-07

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A list of blog articles about the current runners and what they are running on. Election 2007: The Taxpayer’s Perspective Parties divided on entitlements Fred Thompson: entitled to a bit of praise In His Words: Giuliani on Torture John McCain’s Best Ad To Date New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg Endorses Mitt Romney Hillary Clinton in [...]

Cato Scholar Comments on Charles Rangel’s Tax Plan

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Read It Here And also see the latest from NTU “Rangel Tax Plan “Wrangles” Money from Small Businesses and Families to Fatten Federal Wallets” NTU also has a few letters you might like: An Open Letter to the United States House of Representatives: Support the Taxpayer Choice Act An Open Letter to the United States [...]

Health Sector Puts Its Money on Democrats

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, even as the leading Democrats in the field offer proposals that have caused deep anxiety in some of its sectors. People in the health care industry say the giving reflects [...]

Trading Down

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by Sallie James Sallie James is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. This week, the House of Representatives will consider expanding the federal program for workers who lose their jobs, or whose jobs move offshore, due to competition from imports. But Trade Adjustment Assistance is increasingly a relic of [...]

The Truth About the Top 1%

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by Alan Reynolds Alan Reynolds is a senior fellow and author of Income and Wealth (Greenwood Press 2006). Key legislators and presidential hopefuls in the Democratic Party have proposed raising the top two tax rates. They’re also suggesting extra surtaxes for war, for alleviating the Alternative Minimum Tax, for Social Security, and for subsidizing compulsory [...]