Here’s my op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: A Strategy to Undo Obamacare.
Who will pay the ObamaCare uninsured tax?
These three million people are not rich, they will be uninsured, and they will be required to pay higher taxes. The tax increases on these people clearly violate the President’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $250K.
How to avoid shafting future retirees & creating another bailout
The best way to stop taxpayer bailouts is not to block the bailout after the catastrophe has occurred, it’s to avoid creating the catastrophe in the first place.
It’s not just the economy, stupid
The U.S. economy may not be the only subject this fall, and if we drill down further we can find complexities beyond the simplistic political analysis of “Economy bad, incumbent loses.” President Obama’s economic campaign challenge is multidimensional.
Hello, Cleveland!
President Obama is campaigning on hiring more teachers and cops, building better solar panels, and fixing more potholes. Three of those four are important policy priorities for a mayor.
President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech – detailed outline
This is my attempt to build a detailed outline of the economic speech President Obama gave in Cleveland yesterday. The prior post is a much shorter outline than this one.
President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech – high-level outline
This is my attempt to outline President Obama’s economic speech, given yesterday in Cleveland. This is a super short high-level outline. The following post is a much more detailed outline.
Campaign finance disclosures
Since the next five months of policy discussion will be dominated by the election I think it makes sense to disclose my campaign contributions.
President Obama made two strategic mistakes last Friday
The President is sticking to his guns about what ails the economy and how to fix it. Republicans should relish the opportunity to debate this question extensively.
Is private sector employment fine in absolute or relative terms?
For every net lost government job since employment peaked in January 2008, the U.S. economy has lost more than eleven private sector jobs. The private sector is not fine, in absolute or relative terms.
