Led by a president who doesn’t appear to understand basic economics and who insists that the long-term drivers of America’s unsustainable national debt—Social Security and Medicare—can’t be touched, the mainstream GOP has proven that the grumbling about big government under Obama was mere political posturing. After years of swearing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, unified Republican power has instead come with a noticeable new taste for Medicaid expansion and support for other provisions of the law.
Republican apologists always seem to have an excuse for federal expansions on their watch. They argued, for instance, that Bush’s prescription drug subsidy for seniors was noble as well as politically savvy. But it’s getting government out of the equation that would actually make health care more affordable. Instead, Republicans delivered the biggest enlargement of the welfare state since the creation of Medicare in 1965.
And while the city has yet to acknowledge the detrimental impact this minimum wage increase has already had, they are also ignoring the potential consequences of this new tax. But if the city is not careful in considering both the seen and the unseen repercussions of this new employment tax, they might soon find that all the job creators have had enough.
My old teacher Randy Holcombe reveals a hidden cost of inflation.
Chris Edwards isn’t impressed with the TSA.
George Will applauds the good work being launched by Nicole Neily’s Speech First to thwart intolerance on American college campuses.
