…and continues the regressivity with some type of value-added tax that will also fall mostly on wage earners. Added since the original positing is Dan Mitchell–conservative spokesperson for the Cato…

…is a mixture of outright buffoonery (the Laffer curve “idea” drawn on a napkin and treated as though it were a scientific hypothesis by the Tax Foundation and Cato Institute…

…straight from the “starve the beast”, free marketarian guidebook of the Cato Institute and other think tanks pushing the Chicago School version of “free enterprise.” It uses the rhetoric of…

…we fall for the spin being presented by the paid spinners at the Concord Coalition, Cato, and American Enterprise Institute. (And those were not chosen at random, they are the…

…a certain C. Fred Bergsten. Who’s he? “C. Fred Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since its creation in 1981.” Yep nothing like loading up…

…out in the Fall 1983 issue of the Cato Journal Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform? Particularly illuminating is the article by Butler and Germanis “Achieving Social Security Reform:…

The Cato Institute’s James Bovard in 1995 had thoughts on private versus public monies. ADM’s finagling in Washington may have cost taxpayers and consumers more than $40 billion since 1980,…

…Cato Institute’s excellent report “The Grand Old Spending Party,” which explains that “throughout the past 40 years, most presidents have cut or restrained lower-priority spending to make room for higher-priority…

Even Blogs for Bush had been ignoring what we reported here. The Cato Institute and Le Club for Rich People have received limited notice from the rightwing blogs for their…

…Grandpa don’t get thrown out of their home” if their investments go sour. Stephen should call Andrew Biggs of the Cato Institute. The new GOP idea is actually an old…