There are two types of businesses: successful ones that don’t need financial assistance from the government, and unsuccessful ones that don’t deserve it. Those lucky enough to have foreign deals backed by the Export-Import Bank fall almost entirely in the first group. They don’t need the help, but they’ll take all the favors they can…
Gluttony
Business, Crony Capitalism, Federal Government, Gluttony, Government Spending
Businesses Using Green to Get the Green
Three years old, yet no less true today: Yet most green projects today are just thinly veiled exercises in crony capitalism. Under the guise of an energy revolution, companies are extracting massive government favors, while destroying more jobs than are created and misdirecting domestic energy production. Consider the facts. Last year, direct spending, tax breaks…
Federal Government, Gluttony, Government Spending, Local Government, Taxes
The Crazy-Wrong Argument on Taxes
The post immediately below first appeared on sister-site FREE WHITEWATER, my blog published from my hometown of Whitewater, Wisconsin. It’s about the tendency of local officials to insist that they can get public money for their constituents without a tax impact. You’ve surely heard the same false contention from bureaucrats in your part of America,…