Back When Democrats Cared Enough to Advocate What Works

By Andrew J. Coulson

Many, if not most, of the stated goals of the Democratic Party have universal appeal in the United States. Foremost among those would be reducing poverty and ensuring that every child has access to a high-quality education. The problem with the Democratic Party today is that its leadership seems not to understand the kinds of [...]

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Obama Wants to Cut Taxes? Don’t Believe It for a Second.

Liberals stumping for tax cuts are as rare as three-dollar bills and hardcover digital books, and for good reason. Devoid of any other organizing principle, the only job of progressivism today is to grow government, and taxation is the blood stream of government. It is thus with the same healthy does of skepticism that we would greet a talking turtle that we should approach claims by the Obama White House that it really, really wants to cut taxes, dang it, but conservatives won’t let them. The issue at hand is, … More