Early in the debate over financial reform, the banking lobby explicitly stated that any tax assessed on them would just be “passed onto the consumers”. Early in the debate on energy reform (aka cap and trade), Republican legislators explicitly stated that the cost of any tax or carbon credit would just be “passed onto the… (read more)
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Rational Politics Chapter 2: The Federal Budget
The Federal Budget is one of the most consistently misunderstood documents in American life. The vast majority of Americans have no real idea of the process involved in the budget’s adoption, or the scale (in terms of real money) of the thing itself. This is a major impediment to sound participatory democracy; a basic understanding… (read more)
Rational Politics Chapter One: The Government
The Government. The Feds. Washington. Words that strike anger and frustration into the hearts of a majority of Americans. The government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is being rejected…by the people. This stunning contradiction, almost fifty years in the making, is the bastard child of political branding, civic ignorance, and… (read more)
Other People’s Big Government
We humans are a funny lot. Most of us can see the flaws in others and miss our own; “do as I say, not as I do” generally being the rule of the day. For my part, I am publishing this blog to attempt reasonable discussion of political issues in spite of my own tendencies… (read more)
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