Lori Montgomery and Brady Dennis of The Washington Post on the rejection of yet more spending: The Senate effectively rejected a slimmed-down package of jobless benefits and state aid late Thursday, rebuffing President Obama’s call for urgent action to bolster the economic recovery. Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) voted with a […]

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Greg Kocher in The Lexington Herald-Leader on the Jessamine County Sports Complex: After languishing for a couple of years, the effort to build a soccer and football complex and a Kentucky Pro Football Players Hall of Fame in Nicholasville has been reinvigorated. Local officials say they have a good chance of obtaining federal funding that […]

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Jackie Calmes and Sheryl Gay Stolberg via The New York Times: President Obama on Saturday implored Congress to provide more aid to states and cities to blunt “the devastating economic impact of budget cuts” by local governments that imperil the jobs of teachers, the police, firefighters and other public employees. I’m not sure better proof […]

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Arthur Laffer via The Wall Street Journal: And it’s also simple enough for most people to understand that if the government taxes people who work and pays people not to work, fewer people will work. Incentives matter.

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Apparently, the advisory board whose single task is to find creative ways to cut the federal deficit wants needs more money.

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Steven Muffson and Michael D Shear via The Washington Post: Allies of the president have argued for weeks that the administration should stop talking about BP, the oil company responsible for the spill, and instead tap into the public attention to the catastrophe in hopes of giving it at least some redemptive value in the […]

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Daniel J. Mitchell via The Cato Institute: Contrary to her direct quote, Brazil does not have the “highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere.” It may have the highest tax burden in South America. And it may even have the highest tax burden in all of Latin America, but its overall tax burden of about […]

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Next time you hear Obama claim that he has lowered taxes for 95% of the people, you ought to be hearing, “I will absolutely raise taxes for those making less than $250,000 a year, yet I will continue to say that I won’t because the taxes will all be hidden in everything that affects your […]

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Despite the fact that California has been in dire financial straights for at least the last 3 years, is currently in the fiscal shitter, in the midst of a $19.1 billion budget gap with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, has been compared to the failed euro zone states, is looking to […]

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Via the Marijuana Policy Project: The agenda for the publicly funded conference, held at the prestigious U.S. Grant Hotel from May 10 through May 13, is not available to the public. In fact, the conference is under the close guard of about a dozen San Diego Police officers and even some military personnel. We do […]

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