Blue Collar Muse @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In honor of today being April 15th, likely the most reviled day on the calendar (after January 1st and the necessity to make all those fleeting resolutions - not to mention the hangover) , I thought to direct you to an excellent piece on taxes by a friend of mine, Doug Bandow.
Doug notes in his […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ March 24, 2008 # 8 Comments
One of our most cherished rights is to petition our government. If there’s a problem, we want our representatives to know so they can fix it. Imagine, however, if a top law enforcement official denied this right to citizens. Imagine he arrested them, threatening them with fines and imprisonment. Imagine it’s being driven by partisan […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ March 8, 2008 # One Comment
Peter, a recent commenter here at Blue Collar Muse on the topic of Sub-Prime mortgages and the bail out of those who tossed the dice in that game and lost, got me thinking about the issue again.
My principle break with his position is that I do not believe, as he does,
The government is largely responsible […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Taxes … if we are smart, we hate them. They should be rare and low. They should collect just enough to do what the government is mandated to do by the Constitution and nothing more.
The Left loves taxes, especially tax increases. The Right used to love tax cuts and hated tax increases. […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ January 15, 2008 # One Comment
Heading into Michigan and South Carolina, and enjoying an uptick in interest and momentum following Thursday night’s GOP debate hosted at FOXNews, over the weekend the Thompson campaign released Fred’s plan to reduce Federal Spending. It’s not a particularly long read and it is thin on implementation. However, as a good overview on how Fred […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ December 31, 2007 # 7 Comments
In US political discussions, there is currently a heated up Cold War going on between those who desire to move our country towards a Socialist foundation for our governance and those who desire to keep our Capitalist foundation. That struggle is clearly in evidence in the Presidential campaigns, especially of the top tier candidates.
Most […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ December 9, 2007 # 2 Comments
Everyone has been complaining for months about rising gas prices. Almost universally, the blame for said rise has been laid at the feet of Big Oil. Another evil corporate cabal conspiring to hose the consumer! Without getting into another day’s argument, let me direct your attention to a new Heritage Foundation evaluation […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ December 6, 2007 # 2 Comments
Not the sort of title you normally expect to find on a Conservative site. But it’s a question that needs asking in the face of a brand new study, the first of its kind, issued today by The Alliance for Worker Freedom. Entitled ‘2007 Index of Worker Freedom: A National Report Card’, […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ November 3, 2007 # 5 Comments
If you listen to the Left, the mandate from November of 2006 was all about restraining evil, American Imperialistic military expansion. If you look to the message of the day to day grind of 2007, it seems more about restraining vital American Capitalistic economic expansion. From Congress’s refusal to make the Internet Tax Ban […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 22, 2007 # 15 Comments
Big T over at ConservativeINC wrote in ‘Capitalism’s Sledge Hammer’,
There is a lot that is said about how capitalism is efficient and how it brings freedom to the individual. But I think that another aspect of capitalism should be added to those two to create a free market triumvirate: failure.
Yes, failure is one of […]
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