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Obamacare and Medicaid Enablers

You would think the GOP would put a on full court press against both Obamacare and Medicaid. But that's simply not how it's playing...

Running on Obamacare

If 5 million have signed up for Obamacare then, according to Jimmy Fallon, "that means at least 50 million tried to sign-up." Here Cato's Michael...

Don’t Tread on My Checkbook

The Tea Party used to be laser focused on calling out the big spenders in Washington. But the TP lost its way in the...

Obama and Congress Abandon any Pretense of Fiscal Restraint

As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains, in 2008, when President Obama first took office, public debt equaled 39% of GDP. Today it is over...

Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner and the Disappearing Ink of Obamacare

America’s staunchest scholars in opposition to Obamacare are undisputedly the Cato Institute’s Michaels Tanner and Cannon. Debbie and I know each and, in a...

Porky Pig of a Farm Bill

My Cato friends Michael Tanner and Chris Edwards break-down the $956 billion Farm Bill for you. Don’t believe anything the media puts out saying...

Obamacare Death Spiral Date: Sept/Oct 2014

Nearly 80 million Americans covered under company insurance plans will be up for renewal and potential cancellation this fall. There will be a tidal...

Obamacare Has Destroyed the Individual Insurance Market

So Americans, when O’Care crashes and burns into a death spiral, what do we go back to? Crash and burn? Certainly, the frat house...

Clobbering the Poor Obama Style

Democrats are setting up to deliver a one-two punch to America's middle class and the poor. Here the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner unfolds the...

Read about the Cato Institute’s Great Year

The Center For Global Development ranks Cato the #1 think tank in America for efficiency. Debbie and I are strong supporters of the Cato...

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