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  • 2014
    • November
      • Federal Disabilty Insurance Trust Fund
        11/30/14
        From the 2014 OASDI Trustees Report:

        DI Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2016, at which time continuing income to the DI Trust Fund would be sufficient to pay 81 percent of DI benefits. Therefore, legislative action is needed as soon as possible to address the DI program’s financial

      • Do Tax Rate Cuts Increase Tax Revenues?
        11/26/14
        The historical evidence indicates that some tax cuts do increase tax revenues and some do not. For example, the 2001 tax cuts did not increase tax revenues but the 2003 cuts did. It can be argued that the 2003 tax rate decreases did more to raise federal receipts than the 1993 tax rate increases eve

  • 2008
    • April
      • Graphical Presidential Economic Comparison
        04/06/08
        President George W. Bush



        President William J. Clinton



        President George H. W. Bush



        President Ronald W. Reagan



        It is good to have Republicans in office when recessions occur because they are ideologically bette

    • March
      • Stare Decisis Run Amok
        03/30/08
        After the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, the Supreme Court ignored John Bingham's intent to make the first eight amendments enforceable upon the states. Chief Justice Morrison Waite wrote in United States v. Cruikshank (1875) 92 US 542 at 552:
        The

      • Bill of Rights
        03/28/08
        I was blissfully ignorant of the controversy regarding whether the first eight amendments to the US Constitution apply to the states and local governments. Imagine the shock, no, the horror of discovering the Bill of Rights only protected your rights from Federal government violation but not breache

  • 2007
    • June
      • Strong Families
        06/17/07
        A true "hearts and minds" campaign wages daily in the home. There are no perfect people, perfect couples or perfect families. There are strong people, strong couples and strong families. They should be shown to the United States and globally.

        See Cloverdale Center for Family Str

    • May
    • March
    • January
      • Realism About Minimum Wage Laws
        01/14/07
        In 1995, the Democratic President stated:
        Now, I've studied the arguments and the evidence for and against a minimum wage increase. I believe the weight of the evidence is that a modest increase does not cost jobs, and may even lure people back into the job market.
        This is the Card-Kr