http://www.insideronline.orgRSS feed for the InsiderOnline.org Blogen-US Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:15:00 ESThttp://www.heritage.org/ui/icons/thflogo.gifhttp://www.insideronline.orginsideronline.org http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=CA8A8B3F-C3E1-86C2-0A1D376D51EE1F00 Milton Friedman was wrong: "Starve the beast" doesn't work. So says researcher Michael New in the latest issue of Cato Journal. The real burden of government, of course, is not how much it taxes, but how much it spends. However,... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=CA8A8B3F-C3E1-86C2-0A1D376D51EE1F00 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=CA3F0EF7-D3BC-1579-74FE6BEC378A626E • Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity is a new history of the intellectual movement that solved America's last great economic crisis. Author Brian Domitrovic tells the story of how the supply-side movement was... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:06 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=CA3F0EF7-D3BC-1579-74FE6BEC378A626E http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=C5D34135-ED65-5F6F-7841864675A7A8CA "Besides Mississippi," observes William Voegeli, "every one of the 17 states with the lowest state and local tax levels had positive net internal migration from 2000 to 2007." Voegeli continues: "Except for Wyoming, Maine, and Delaware, every one of the... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:30 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=C5D34135-ED65-5F6F-7841864675A7A8CA http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=BB9588A2-9448-A202-2F867504A8E6FBC8 Third-quarter growth in gross domestic product of 3.5 percent sounds pretty good. On the other hand, observes Veronique De Rugy, ... the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers include government spending. So, when the government pumps thousands of billions of dollars... Insider The Insider Online Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:46 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=BB9588A2-9448-A202-2F867504A8E6FBC8 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=B717D02A-D9CF-8193-392297D54F839FC5 Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer squared off last week at the University of Arizona to debate judicial philosophies. Scalia, as usual, made an excellent case for his philosophy of originalism. You can watch the whole thing at... Insider The Insider Online Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:51 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=B717D02A-D9CF-8193-392297D54F839FC5 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A7587F57-EF68-A139-3DAEF255E88220E6 Can Congress do anything without carving out special benefits for politically favored groups? The Senate Finance Committee's health care bill creates a new 40 percent tax on health insurance premiums above certain thresholds ($8,000 annually for individual plans and $21,000... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:27 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A7587F57-EF68-A139-3DAEF255E88220E6 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A7022CC0-AC91-D54B-BD2002622C0EB641 The office of the "pay czar" is unconstitutional, according to Stanford University law professor Michael McConnell. McConnell writes in the Wall Street Journal: The Appointments clause of the Constitution, Article II, section 2, provides that all "Officers of the United... Insider The Insider Online Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:53 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A7022CC0-AC91-D54B-BD2002622C0EB641 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A240DC83-BE45-B1EC-BFC94177341014DD Most of the cars purchased with rebates from the Cash for Clunkers program would have been purchased anyway, according to a new analysis from Edmunds.com. Analysts for Edmunds looked at sales data for luxury cars and other cars not included... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:44 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A240DC83-BE45-B1EC-BFC94177341014DD http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A2405EE7-980A-170F-22EE759019A4BB70 The Panama Free Trade agreement, like trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea, remains unapproved by Congress. That's too bad, reports Heritage fellow James Roberts, because approving the agreement would mean new opportunities for U.S. companies and workers: Panama is... Insider The Insider Online Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:43 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=A2405EE7-980A-170F-22EE759019A4BB70 http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9D14057E-905F-1E00-975822F0D2985E7F Dan Mitchell: Adding a value added tax on top of the complicated income tax code will only lead to more government spending and higher income taxes, too: ... Insider The Insider Online Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36 EST http://www.insideronline.org/blogarchive.cfm?blogid=9D14057E-905F-1E00-975822F0D2985E7F