…and start over. I agree.
Category Archives: Economics
It’s Probably Worse
Mitch Daniels says that living next door to Illinois is like living next door to the Simpsons.
The Simon-Ehrlich Wager
2011 edition. Pretty amusing. Malthusians never learn.
Sanity In Sacramento?
A bi-partisan bill to cap state employee pensions? Let’s hope.
“A Uniquely Vicious Form Of Corruption”
That’s what ObamaCare is.
[Update a few minutes later]
The House has voted to repeal, with four Democrat votes. Now Harry Reid will be on the hot seat.
[Update a while later]
In 2010, the Democrats passed ObamaCare by a 7 vote margin. In 2011, the Republicans passed the bill to repeal ObamaCare with a 55 vote margin.
In each case, one side of the vote was bi-partisan. In both cases, the bi-partisan vote was against ObamaCare.
That’s because we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Though technically, I think that there was one Republican vote for ObamaCare (Cao).
His Evil Powers Are Undiminished
Ex-Queen Nancy says that it’s Bush’s fault that she lost her job. May her delusions reign over the Dems forever.
The Theftist Mindset Of The Left
Yes, this is the logical conclusion from their beliefs:
Joe Citizen has an inviolable claim to other people’s money but not to his own.
How weird is that?
Only an “intellectual” could believe it.
One Down
…but plenty to go. The House Global Warming Committee is no more.
Good riddance. It’s morning in America.
No, Ezra
…and Nancy, and other economic ignorami, ObamaCare will not reduce the deficit.
[Update early afternoon]
Garbage-Out, Garbage-In budgeting.
A Beautiful Sight
[Afternoon update]
Something else to celebrate — the fall of the House of Waxman:
The committee was an unending source of ghastly new legislative proposals for regulatory manacles to be fastened on one or another sector of the economy , ideas that with any luck we may now be spared for the next two years. Thus it appears unlikely that the Republican-led committee will give its blessing to something called the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 (H.R. 5786), introduced by Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), which — by mandating that all compounds found in personal-care items at any detectable level be expensively tested for and disclosed on labels — could have added tens of thousands of dollars of cost overhead to that little herbal-soap business your sister is trying to start in her garage. (Fragrance expert Robert Tisserand explains why most small personal-care product makers would not survive if the bill passed). Nor is it likely that the new leadership of chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) will be in a hurry to adopt Rep. Schakowsky’s H.R. 1408, the Inclusive Home Design Act, which would mandate handicap accessibility features in most new private homes.
He really is one of the more odious creatures in that cesspool. It’s a shame that he didn’t lose his seat completely, but that’s probably a forlorn hope in his West LA district. But at least he’s been defanged.