If Ted Cruz holds on to his slim lead in Iowa, he may be the first politician in ages in either party to win the Hawkeye presidential caucuses without supporting federal ethanol supports. Cruz has been under constant assault from the ethanol lobby to get behind the mandates that ethanol be blended into gasoline. The […]
Read MoreI love Donald Trump’s tax plan. I love his attacks against politically correct speech. I love his smashing of the arrogant media. But I hate his call for a 45 percent tariff on Chinese products. Can you say: trade war? This is a Smoot-Hawley type non-solution that could cause fierce retaliation and shut down Asian-American […]
Read MoreThree cheers for the Ben Carson tax plan. This is a serious pro-growth tax reform that would create millions of jobs and vastly simplify the federal IRS tax code. This would help make America a tax haven, and jobs would come to these shores rather than get outsourced to our rivals. This plan puts America […]
Read MoreHillary Clinton has just announced yet another big spending idea to win Democratic votes. This time she wants $275 billion for public works projects. No word yet as to whether they are “shovel-ready.” By the way, didn’t Obama fix the infrastructure crisis just a few years ago when he spent hundreds of billions of dollars from […]
Read MoreHere is what Hillary Clinton is going to say about Republicans over the next 12 months. It will be one of her most effective attacks: The GOP is the party of bailouts. They care more about big corporations and Wall Street than they do small businesses, the little guy and Main Street. Never mind that […]
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