Category: Governmental Limits

Some snippet that I caught on the news recently got me thinking about red states and blue states – the states that tend to vote for Republicans and Democrats respectively. Somewhere in my aging brain cells, I remember learning that one of the arguments for strong state governments with a weak federal system is that the states provide laboratories for public policy. Well the lab results are in and they show that red states are doing better economically than blue states. So why are we about to adopt all the policies of the blue states at the federal level?

It’s an election year and we are being treated to the Democrats solutions to all problems – higher taxes. Of course, raising taxes is never popular but the Democrats are trotting out their favorite ruse. We need to raise taxes, they claim, but we are only going to raise the taxes on the rich and on greedy corporations. Let’s look at the idea of collecting more income tax revenue from wealthy individuals and see why it is intellectually bankrupt.