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Posts Tagged ‘2001 tax cuts’

  • The End of Conservatism?

    Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 10:25am in First Principles 33

    Dr. Lee Edwards, a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, gave a lecture  at the Heritage Foundation that asked the question: Is Conservatism dead? One could make a strong case that it is. Conservatives suffered a crushing defeat in the 2006 elections and, more recently, the 2008 elections. However, things have been worse. Much worse. The 1964 [...] More

  • Quick Observations on President Obama’s Budget

    Posted February 26th, 2009 at 3:53pm in Ongoing Priorities 12

    Budget Trickery The President also employs budget trickery on spending. He first assumes that Iraq spending will continue indefinitely at 2008 levels (which was never going to happen, according to the military’s own Joint Campaign Plan), and then calculates $1.5 trillion in savings against that baseline. If you eliminate that gimmick, President Obama increases spending by [...] More

  • Obama Throws Up Brick for NBA

    Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 2:18pm in Enterprise and Free Markets 2

    NBA owners and players will have to swallow hard if that avid hoops fan, Barack Obama, is elected president and pushes through his tax plan. It’s not just players like Celtics star Kevin Garnett, the league leader in pay, who’d have to figure on paying more in federal income taxes. In fact, the NBA’s 20 highest-paid stars each would lose, on [...] More

  • Different Tax Plans, Different Futures

    Posted October 24th, 2008 at 4:51pm in Entitlements 4

    It looks more and more like Joe the Plumber was on to something about taxes, though you wouldn’t know if from most of the polls and media. The Heritage Foundation has the details in our new study: If a President McCain got his way on tax reform, Americans could expect to see jobs, the economy [...] More

  • 5 Misconceptions About the National Debt

    Posted September 12th, 2008 at 5:24pm in Entitlements 5

    There is a lot of information about the national debt, but misconceptions cloud the debate. There are five common misconceptions about the national debt. This video explains them, as well as why they are not accurate guides to measure the debt. Heritage’s Brian Reidl also mentions the real threat to the National Debt – unfunded entitlement programs. Reidl closely examines the myths on [...] More

  • Tax-Cutting Straw Men

    Posted June 9th, 2008 at 12:59pm in Enterprise and Free Markets 0

    A recurring theme among critics of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts is that they didn’t work to strengthen the economy. This argument was on display in an article today in the Washington Times that the data on the 2001-2007 expansion “provides no support for the claim that tax cuts generated exceptional economic growth”. This [...] More