by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
The usual liberal complaint against the conservative opposition to higher income taxes is greed and the better-offs’ self-serving reluctance to pay their “fair share.” Continue reading “Why Not Pay Higher Taxes?”
Tag: Deficits
Obama’s Economic Quackery
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Sometimes the wrong medicine can make a struggling patient far sicker than he would have been had he been allowed to recover naturally. Western medicine began with the premise that the physician either must know how to cure the patient or simply leave him alone — but above all not make him worse through harmful treatment. Continue reading “Obama’s Economic Quackery”
What America Does Best
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are in a fresh round of declinism — understandably, after borrowing nearly $5 trillion in less than three years and having very little to show for it. Continue reading “What America Does Best”
Give ‘Em Hell, Barry
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Recently both First Lady Michelle Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis went to the key swing state of Florida to blast the president’s adversaries. Continue reading “Give ‘Em Hell, Barry”
Obama’s Blame Game
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We are told there are lots of reasons why borrowing $5 trillion in less than three years and federalizing healthcare have not yet restored prosperity. Continue reading “Obama’s Blame Game”
The Great Obama Catharsis
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Barack Obama has done the United States a great, though unforeseen, favor. He has brought to light, as no one else could, many of the pernicious assumptions of our culture from the last half-century. Continue reading “The Great Obama Catharsis”
Obama Becomes the Fall Guy
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Suddenly, liberal op-ed writers are trashing — even lampooning — Barack Obama as a one-term president (“one and done”). Centrist Democrats up for reelection in 2012 openly worry about inviting a kindred president into their districts, lest the new pariah lose them votes. Continue reading “Obama Becomes the Fall Guy”
The Old ‘Not Enough’ Excuse
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
To newly inaugurated Barack Obama and his prime-the-pump technocrats, the logic seemed so simple. America’s problem was a struggling economy. The solution was to spread around even more borrowed government money. The result would be a return to prosperity. Continue reading “The Old ‘Not Enough’ Excuse”
Is the President in Recovery?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
President Obama does not care much about deficits — other than worrying that big debt might matter in his re-election campaign. Continue reading “Is the President in Recovery?”
Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Borrowing Is No Longer Stimulus?
The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt. Continue reading “Our Ten-Trillion-Dollar Man”