Here is a recurring frustration during election season: Candidates who seem attractive before the race begins suddenly sound squishier or change their positions once they hit the campaign trail. On the issue of cronyism, there is one noticeable exception during this year’s campaign. In spite of what could be perceived as a political risk, one […]
The World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of negotiations has often seemed like going absolutely nowhere. There are two major reasons for this: one is the decidedly democratic nature of the forum, where every country has one vote and also an absolute veto. One country can simply say no and that’s that: it’s not the majority […]
Of all the mystical qualities that [Donald] Trump supporters attribute to their candidate, the one I find most curious is that Trump is the “anti-corporatist” candidate. Trump? “Anti-corporatist”? Really? If there were a corporatist hall of fame, Trump’s name should be emblazoned across the front in huge red letters, the way it is on his […]
Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) continued defense of Big Sugar’s indefensible legal plunder of American sugar consumers to the tune of billions of dollars every year has been rightfully criticized recently, here are two examples. 1. A WSJ editorial last week (“Rubio and Big Sugar“) claimed that the Florida Senator is defending what may be the […]
Marco Rubio is a conservative senator with a record of opposing corporate welfare in all corners of the economy, except one. That would be in the swampy fields of South Florida, where they grow sugar cane. Rubio supports the federal sugar program, with its special cheap loans and its blatant protectionism. This is to the […]