Showing posts with label libertarian 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libertarian 2017. Show all posts
Saturday, December 30, 2017

Let this be a sign unto you: The era of libertarian looting ushered in by Reagan now reaching apogee will be followed by another FDR-like "progressive" era of welfare statism

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Bernie tapped into the amorphous socialism clamored for by today's young people who face dim job prospects while saddled by large co...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Sometimes Ann Coulter is an idiot, for instance when dissing federal encouragement of having children

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You'd think someone who wants America for Americans would want to encourage anything which promotes Americans having more children ins...
Friday, November 3, 2017

In all seriousness, Republican elimination of personal exemptions is just sleight of hand to raise your taxes

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In 2017, the personal exemption is $4,050. If your little tribe is six, mommy, daddy, and four kids, your personal exemptions add up...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

CNBC's Jake Novak lets it slip that his libertarian hatred of single family homes has been aesthetic all along

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Seen here , italics added by me: Second we have perhaps the most controversial proposal: The plan to cap mortgage interest deduction...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Strike Three and You're Out: Both National Associations, of Homebuilders and of Realtors, pull support from House tax plan

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Trump looks set to be defeated on tax reform as 2017 winds down, just as he has failed to overturn Obamacare and build The Wall. And consi...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A. Barton Hinkle shows once again that libertarianism is of the left, not the right

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Here : [B]oth parties have grown more extreme in recent years. Congressional Republicans certainly have. Congressional Democrats tend ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

The libertarian Charles Murray is in the news advocating the crackpot idea of handing out free money

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The shock that is no shock: Open borders fanatics in the libertarian Freedom Caucus like Mark Meadows are OK with delaying The Wall some more

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Friday, August 25, 2017

To libertarians there is no injustice too great which can be perpetrated in the pursuit of open borders

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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Kurt Andersen in The Atlantic projects his now-rejected experience of libertarianism onto all of the GOP and conservatism

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Unfortunately for Kurt, he thinks recovery means doing some cherry-picking of his own, exchanging one insanity for another. It never occ...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Mark Levin is at his best to start the show this evening

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He's ripping every president back to G. H. W. Bush as appeasers of North Korea, our feckless Congress, our fifth column media, and eve...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Like most libertarians, Ben Domenech is a progressive who imagines America began as a tabula rasa on which we wrote "manifest destiny"

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I'll bet he's memorized Emma Lazarus' poem, too. Ben is deeply confused about the American founding. Here , where you migh...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Three salvos this morning in the libertarian war against homeownership: Fortunately human nature is stronger

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Insane libertarian fixation on mortgage interest deduction, edition 4716

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You would think a libertarian would acknowledge that shielding YOUR money from taxation is a good thing, but you would be wrong. There are...
Friday, July 28, 2017

As I predicted Real Clear Markets wastes no time trotting out another libertarian to attack your mortgage interest deduction, this time from the Manhattan Institute

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Saturday, July 22, 2017

Your mortgage interest deduction is only eighth in the latest list of top things on which government claims it loses revenue

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But libertarians especially hate it. Expect more articles telling you it's got to go as tax reform talk heats up in Congress. Here...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The Reagan GDP miracle is a complete myth: It was all government spending (on defense)

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And it set a horrible precedent for the dramatic overspending of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, which has sent us on a course to obliv...
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Kevin Williamson of National Review, CNBC's kind of conservative, tries out for job with better liberals, calls Trump a coward and a fool

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Here , saying Trump is no different than Obama for being all talk and no action. Williamson is unhappy that Trump hasn't yet start...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Not to be outdone by P. J. O'Rourke, libertarian Mark Perry also genuflects toward the hypocritical French today

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Namely toward Frederic Bastiat, here , who wrote against "legal plunder", never once mentioning that the estate off of which Bas...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

For some unknown reason The American Conservative decided to remind us today about the crack-up of Bruce Bartlett

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They reran his 2012 piece detailing his several intellectual crises, in which the libertarian finally gave up and became the liberal, alt...