Give Us Our Money Back
President Obama’s Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee is an important bill that will ensure that any tax payer dollars that were not accounted for are taken. If the banks are making such amazing profits to allow for $20 billion in bonuses, they can afford to pay fees to pay the American people back.
Americans Are to Blame for the Lack of American Jobs
Because of the American people’s desire to consistently have cheap goods in mass quantity, American companies have had to send their factories overseas to make these cheap prices. If we want American manufacturing jobs, we need to be willing to pay more for goods. Or, we can accept the fact that America has moved up in the economic chain and we are the creator of ideas, not goods anymore.
Americans Have Never Witnessed Capitalism
Americans have only experienced corporatism. If they were to experience true capitalism, they’d have more faith in it and a loss less faith in government.
Repeal the Double Tax For Good
The United States taxes American businesses on profits they make overseas even after that overseas country has already taxed them. This makes it so much harder to become profitable overseas and explains why we have such a large trade deficit.
Cut Emissions and Taxes
Congratulations to the House and Senate for passing the cap-and-trade energy bill that is meant to try and slow the amount of emissions that companies release in an attempt to save the environment. I applaud them for their effort, but I have to ask a question: why can’t we save the environment without having a [...]
Mix Keynesianism and Reaganomics
A Republican and a Democrat sit down one day and try to determine what we should do with the economy. The Republican says that we need to lower taxes and get the government out of the business’ faces because only through these acts can we really have any economic growth. The Democrat says that we [...]
The Weakness of Reagonomics and Why It Doesn’t Work
This is a guest article submitted to We the People Politics.
Since 1980, the people of the United States have been fed a great, white lie: greed is good. This notion emerged out of the counterrevolutionary devolution of government that began with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and has continued on for nearly three [...]
Stop Giving the Car Industry Their Next Fix
Over the past couple of months, my economic opinions have changed. For some time, I believed that the bailout of the banks was necessary because if we didn’t, the economy would crumble. When the automotive industry came to Washington and said that they needed money to survive, I believed that it was a necessity to [...]
