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Obama Budget: Lots of Tax Hikes, Little Deficit Progress

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

February 13, 2012

James Pethokoukis supplies more reasons to dislike the Obama budget.

My Right to Your Money

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

February 2, 2012

Noah Millman is wrestling with a fair-minded compromise between a government trying to enforce a right to health care and religious employers trying to follow their institutional conscience.

Senate Democrats' 999 Plan: 999 Days Without A Budget

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

January 23, 2012

In an interesting bit of scheduling, tomorrow's State of the Union address will occur as a dubious milestone is reached: it will have been 1,000 days since Senate Democrats passed a budget.

Each showdown over continuing resolutions, looming government shutdowns, and temporarily funding the federal government has its roots in the Senate's failure to perform this basic task of governance.

Herman Cain Suspends Campaign

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

December 3, 2011

Businessman Herman Cain today announced that he was suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Cain's rise revealed a Republican Party eager to nominate a candidate to the right of Mitt Romney and demonstrated the importance of the debates. Cain was seen as honest, plainspoken, and not beholden to the establishment. He also contradicted liberal stereotypes about the Tea Party and race.

Situational Constitutionalism

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

November 30, 2011

Conor Friedersdorf raises the question of whether Tea Party conservatives are in fact situational constitutionalists.

They might question the constitutionality of the individual mandate, but they have no problem with violations of due process when conducted under the auspices of the war on terror. Why, it's a war. Allowing American citizens to be indefinitely detained, or even killed, without much in the way of checks and balances is part of the deal. Friedersdorf is right that Tea Partiers ought to take the constitutional questions raised by the war on terror more seriously.

Why Conservatives Shouldn't 'Tax the Poor'

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

November 22, 2011

Yesterday I posted a few items on Twitter endorsing Ramesh Ponnuru's argument that conservative concerns about people not paying income taxes are overblown.

Some of the responses I received are themselves worth responding to. Many conservatives are fixated on the the 47 percent of Americans (probably closer to 46 percent this year) who don't pay income tax. To the extent that this is a rhetorical point against liberal arguments that the rich are undertaxed, it is worthwhile. I can also understand concerns about people voting for big government without paying for it, though one can be a net beneficiary of federal spending even if they pay some amount of income taxes.

Republicans and Overspending, Con'td

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

November 16, 2011

There's one other way in which the narrative about Republicans and overspending, disputed by Ramesh Ponnuru, contains an element of truth.

A version of it is even endorsed by Barack Obama: "In the year 2000, the government had a budget surplus. But instead of using it to pay off our debt, the money was spent on trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, while two wars and an expensive prescription drug program were simply added to our nation's credit card." Now, most conservatives supported the tax cuts and the wars. Obama supported one of the two wars and a prescription drug benefit that was, if anything, more expensive than the one George W. Bush signed into law.

Do We Even Have A Written Constitution?

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

November 14, 2011

That is really the fundamental question at stake in the Obamacare case.

Many countries are governed by unwritten constitutions, a patchwork of court decisions, legal and political precedents, laws, and customs that shape the boundaries of government rather than any single document. Over the past eighty years, the United States has increasingly moved to that system as well. But even the post-New Deal, post-World War II consensus has always tried to appeal to our written Constitution for authority, which its champions have pretended to revere as a living document.

Judges Clash with Voters on Mandate

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

November 14, 2011

A death panel for limited government, brought to you by the living Constitution.

Last week, two-thirds of Ohioans voted against letting the government force people to buy health insurance. The measure passed by a greater margin than the collective bargaining initiative, which grabbed most of the headlines, failed. Ohio's state constitution now rejects the individual mandate central to both the president's federal health care program and the Massachusetts law on which it was partially based.

Ron Paul Budget Contains $1 Trillion in Specific Cuts

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

October 17, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will unveil his plan to balance the budget today in Las Vegas, including $1 trillion in spending cuts.

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