The President signed into law on New Year’s Eve the National Defense Authorization Act. Liberals are not happy, Muslims are not happy, the ACLU is not happy. All this probably means the country is going to be safe.
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Good politics is never a substitute for bad policy.
Today I explained the merits of the National Retail Sales Tax (The Fair Tax) to yet another class of business math students. The response I get, though, is always the same: “Why haven’t we done this yet?”
Our government, though, can increase spending AND ask for more money on loan – all at the same time. At least for now.
Mr. Smith has always been – according to the report – a conservative Democrat. He now calls himself a moderate Republican. In his words: “It’s not a big leap going from a super conservative Democrat to a Republican.”
