Oh, Mama, can this really be the end? To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again?” -Bob Dylan To be stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again is to describe the bankruptcy filing in 2009 by Mobile suburb Prichard, Alabama. The city’s lawyer said it was forced to file Chapter […]
An American Greek Tragedy
You may have heard. Greece couldn’t adhere to its deficit-reduction targets. Investors want nothing to do with its debt. It takes a 15.7% yield to entice them into Greek bonds. The European Union will have to step in because Greek taxpayers are about as real as ancient Greek mythology. Apparently there is no such thing […]
S&P Negative Outlook: The Beginning of the End
OK, so Standard & Poor’s has slapped a negative outlook on the U.S. government. Too bad we can’t eat our debt. All I can say is thankfully they haven’t lumped state and local municipal finances into the outlook. Who’s going to bail us out of this mess? France? Please. The nonpartisan Pew Foundation just released […]
Obama and GOP Devalue Your Vote
The more money that’s given to a centralized group, whether it is the U.S. government (higher taxes), Wall Street (TARP and QE2), or a public-sector union (collective bargaining), the less valuable your vote becomes. Powerful centralized groups with lots and lots of money are exactly what our founders wanted to eliminate. As centralized powers grow, […]
Presidential Priorities
The president ignores properly vetted, Senate confirmed appointees while keeping in close contact with America’s union bosses.
Live Free or Die
“Live Free or Die” is the motto on every New Hampshire license plate. You can easily read it on the car in front of you if you happen to be at a McDonald’s drive-through waiting for your Angus Deluxe, with its 750 calories and 1,700 milligrams of sodium. Not that you would order it every […]
Dagny Taggart Confronts the Union
What Public-Sector Union Leaders Don’t Want You to Know
Chances are we all know someone who is or was a member of a public union, whether it be Mom or Dad, a relative, a friend or you. So when the discussion comes up about public-sector unions bankrupting your state or another state, it’s not so easy for us conservatives to call for cuts when […]
Seven State Snapshot: Are You Living in the Right State?
Do you live in a right-to-work state or a non-right-to-work state, where compulsory membership in a union can legally be a condition of employment? Is your state’s income-tax rate competitive with those of neighboring states—or the rest of the country, for that matter? Is your state adding residents or losing residents? And are you getting […]
You Will Not Believe This
North Dakota is doing all the little things to help it manage its natural resources effectively, like keeping taxes low and being a right-to-work state. As Joel Kotkin writes in his Wall Street Journal editorial: Already fourth in oil production behind Texas, Alaska and California, the state is positioned to advance on its competitors. Drilling […]
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