Where would meals be better and cheaper? A city where customers could choose between restaurants competing in a free market? Or a city where everyone was forced to buy all their meals at a few mafia-controlled restaurants?
Like the mafia, Congress wants to make you an offer you can’t refuse. At least the mafia doesn’t pretend that it’s acting for your own good.
Hey, it’s the Chicago Way.
Not years. Months. We really need to be thinking about climate control in general, instead of how to punish carbon emitters.
I have some more advice for Barack Obama that, like Joel Kotkin’s, he will be constitutionally unable to take, over at PJM today.
More proof that government spending doesn’t do much for job creation.
One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.
You don’t say.
…it would look like this.
I think that this is one of those rare cases where an abortion is the only reasonable option.
…and 10.2% unemployment:
Naturally, according to the “experts” it’s more than expected.
It’s not more than I expected. I’m actually surprised it’s not worse, considering how they’ve been making war on business and vandalizing the economy in general.
NASA Watch has a poll up on what kind of heavy lifter NASA should build. I’ve decided to do my own, proper poll:
[Mid-afternoon update]
Wow, not much love for either flavor of Ares, at least from my readers. So far, the vast majority goes for “none of the above.”
Fight back against the thieves in Sacramento. Refile your state W-4 ASAP.
Keith Hennessy on Barack Obama’s Bart Simpson defense.
I would add that it’s not possible to know to what degree “tax cuts” boosted the deficit, because they weren’t “tax cuts.” They were tax rate cuts, and they may have actually reduced it by boosting the economy and incomes.