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America was built on cheap and abundant coal.
Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.
More travel to America would lower our trade and budget deficits.
Coal is tied to steel jobs, trucking jobs, and manufacturing jobs.
That is exactly what Mr. Trump is: The working man and woman's CEO.
The Affordable Care Act is a public-policy flop of epic proportions.
At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion.
Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.
Increases in output generally lead to lower prices, not higher prices.
Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.
Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.
It's very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.
Borrowing isn't inherently bad; it depends a lot on what the debt is financing.
We need national economic policies that have been shown to work at the state level.
I don't think anybody can reasonably say I am a sycophant for Trump, because I'm not.
The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.
Every dollar a foreigner spends over here directly subtracts a dollar from the trade deficit.
Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.
The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.
The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.
It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.
If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
The elimination of deductibility of state and local taxes will also encourage more privatization of municipal services.
America should be about owning a piece of the rock, about letting every worker have equity and share in the returns to capital.
The first iron rule of American politics is Follow the Money. This explains, oh, about 80 percent of what goes on in Washington.
Every dollar the government doesn't spend, tax, or borrow is a dollar that businesses and families can spend or invest themselves.
The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.
One of President Reagan's first and wisest initiatives was to effectively shutdown the anti-trust division of the Justice Department.
I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.
No one understands the dysfunctions and debilitating impact of America's political system in the swamp better than Mark Melcher and Steve Soukup.
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.
Whenever there is an international crisis - an earthquake, a flood, a war - Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.
There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.
The job market improved impressively under Barack Obama's presidency after the Great Recession, when millions of jobs vanished seemingly overnight.
The great American work ethic has not been lost, but it has been eroded by years of dumb government policies that Mr. Trump and Congress can correct.
The Fed's job is not to stall growth or to prevent economic 'overheating.' It is to keep prices stable and the dollar a strong and reliable currency.
The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.
Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.
No one has ever taken a serious stab at reducing fraud and cheating in Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, earned income tax credits, and so on. Trump will.
If the Fed is omniscient, why didn't they pull back on the excess money supply that inflated the massive housing bubble that popped so disastrously back in 2008?
Blue staters tend to send liberal politicians to office, who then vote for bigger federal spending - even though a greater share of the money goes to the red states.
I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.
Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.
If you can, put aside for a moment your opinion of Donald Trump's words and actions and let's be perfectly honest: One year into his presidency, could the economy be any rosier?
Getting rid of the deductibility of state and local taxes will force the highest corporate tax states to lower their rates, or fewer corporations over time will headquarter there.