Regarding Immigration Proposals, Beware of Your Opponents’ Motivation

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  January 28th at 06:31 AM  | 

The subject of immigration (and evidently, illegal immigration) has proven to be a divisive issue for conservatives.  There are divergent opinions as to which policies should be pursued vis-à-vis the 12 million illegal immigrants who reside in the country.  However, as conservatives, there are certain fundamental goals and red lines that we should all unite behind as we commence debate on this issue.  Any so-called | Read More »

A Fair Share of Taxes?

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  November 30th at 10:20 AM  | 

Every year, the Tax Foundation does extraordinary work breaking down and analyzing the macro tax data from the IRS.  We’ve cited their work on numerous occasions in an effort to militate the tax myths propagated by the left.  If you were traveling here from a different country and only heard media reports of our tax code, you would come away with the conclusion that the rich | Read More »

The 47%

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  October 30th at 10:30 AM  | 

One of the most portentous comments ever made by a candidate concerning his own campaign prospects was Romney’s off-the-record remark about Obama having an automatic 47% floor of support.  The media attack dogs lambasted him for his “out of touch” sentiments.  The reality is that Romney hit the nail on the head months before the pollsters would coalesce around that number. Let’s confront an inconvenient | Read More »

Obama’s Legacy: $1.03 Trillion in Welfare Spending

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  October 18th at 12:55 PM  | 

In many respects, this country no longer looks like the American Republic that our parents and grandparents experienced.  More than ever before, government is destroying private enterprise on the one hand, and offering permanent dependency on the other hand.  With all the focus on big bird, binders, and the 47%, the most important figure is the $1.03 trillion – the cost of combined federal and | Read More »

Undoing the Food Stamp Presidency

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 25th at 02:15 PM  | 

Shortly after the November elections, Congress will reconvene for the lame duck session and consider the farm bill at the behest of a bipartisan coalition of statists.  The farm bill is really a food stamp bill.  The House version (H.R. 6083) authorizes $957 billion in spending over 10 years, $756 billion of which will be spent on food stamps and other nutrition programs. The Senate | Read More »

The 47 Percent

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 19th at 10:38 AM  | 

Copious pages of commentary have been poured over the kerfuffle surrounding Romney’s newly-discovered comments regarding the 47% who don’t pay taxes and inexorably vote for Democrats.  It’s important to note that Mother Jones malevolently edited out two minutes of the video right at the time Romney made the “47 percent” comment.   There are a few points that I believe have been overlooked throughout this | Read More »

Only 70 Republicans Vote Against Disastrous CR

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 14th at 08:09 AM  | 

As we noted earlier this week, the Continuing Resolution voted on in the House will increase spending, fund Obamacare, and extend the main welfare program without forcing Obama to reinstate work requirements.  This bill is really an embarrassment to everything House Republicans professed to stand for.  It will delay the major battles until March 27, 2013.  And let me tell you, they will really really | Read More »

The Definition of Stupid: Another Legislative Surrender

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 11th at 03:58 PM  | 

Get ready for another weak ground out into a double play in the upcoming budget battle. Shortly before the August recess, we reported that Republicans planned to pass a clean 6-month CR which funds Obamacare and appropriates $1.047 trillion in spending – commensurate with Obama’s request instead of the House budget.  The idea behind the “deferment” strategy was twofold; to delay the major battles to | Read More »

Now is the Time to Fight the Welfare President

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 10th at 12:13 PM  | 

They’re back!  Congress is back in session after the August recess, but they will only be in town for a few weeks.  While conservatives are usually happy with the idea of Congress staying out of session, there is much on the agenda we must pursue in order to undo Obama’s destructive policies.  We must not squander our time on suspension bills banning the sale of | Read More »

Drawing a Line in the Sand Against Government-Take-All Society

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  September 6th at 05:35 AM  | 

Over the past few months, there has been a daily trickle of establishment Republicans coming out before the media in hostage style confession statements to declare that they would accept tax increases as part of a “grand bargain” to cut the deficit.  The latest members are Senator Lamar Alexander and Rep. Scott Rigell. The entire premise behind Republicans acquiescing to the “balanced approach” to the | Read More »

Obama’s Amnesty Voter Registration Drive Begins Today

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  August 15th at 03:30 PM  | 

This week we will witness thousands of illegal aliens lining the sidewalks of embassies and consulates in order to obtain documentation that will allow them to remain in the country indefinitely, and eventually, sign up to vote for Democrats.  This is all being done at the behest of our top law enforcement officers in contravention to our laws, yet there is nothing ‘we the people’ | Read More »

Mr. Speaker, Tear Up This Farm Bill

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 19th at 05:54 PM  | 

Dear Speaker Boehner, During every election cycle, virtually every Republican candidate affirms his or her support for limited government, free markets, and balanced budgets.  They all tout their conservative credentials on the flashy flag-waving issues of the day in an effort to ingratiate themselves with Republican primary voters.  However, it is the “inside baseball” issues such as the farm bill that expose many of them | Read More »

Republicans Help Grow HUD and Big Government

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 02:00 PM  | 

The House just completed work on another FY 2013 spending bill; the Transportation-HUD Appropriations bill.  This is a unique appropriations bill because most of the underlying content is an anathema to conservatives.  A good part of transportation (highway spending) should be within the purview of state governments; mass transit spending should be eliminated; HUD should be abolished altogether.  As you can imagine, the open floor | Read More »

Tax Cuts for the Rich – Bad; Subsidies – Good

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 20th at 09:24 AM  | 

Barack Obama and the Democrats have promised to make this election a turning point in the fight to make the rich “pay their fair share” of taxes.  They are using biblical innuendo to suggest that it is immoral for the top 1% of earners (who happen to make 17% of nation AGI) to only pay 36.7% of the federal income taxes.  This is their hill | Read More »

Rubio’s Nightmare Act Folly

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  June 14th at 05:12 PM  | 

Why is a group of Republicans, led by Senator Marco Rubio, hell-bent on fumbling the football at the goalpost while Democrats are losing on the issue of illegal immigration? Nowhere do we find such a bifurcation between the views of those in the political class and the commonsense of the average citizen as with the issue of illegal immigration.  Among the political class, even some | Read More »