The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

The ominous Obama-Nixon comparisons begin to pile up

Steve Stanek
Research Fellow, The Heartland Institute

Three months ago, during a Google Plus “Fireside” event, President Barack Obama declared, “This is the most transparent administration in history.”

If you want tax fairness, then demand real fairness!

3:17 AM 04/26/2013

How could I have missed this?

Federal politicians: Your spending is not as important as our spending

9:53 AM 02/27/2013

President Barack Obama and federal lawmakers this year have forced virtually all working Americans to endure a 47 percent increase in the payroll tax they pay, yet many of these same politicians expect us to believe they cannot find good ways to cut federal spending 2 percent.

Get with the program, people: Embrace higher tax rates

4:58 PM 01/02/2013

All that fiscal cliff turmoil for this: a $620 billion tax increase and $330 billion of new spending over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Obama’s logic: a system that ‘allows’ us to thrive can disallow success

1:49 PM 07/25/2012

Now we know what President Barack Obama really believes. And with this knowledge we have the rationale for his desire to use the force of government — a force always backed up by prisons and guns held by men with badges — to take from some and give to others:

Higher demand and a weaker economy. What gives?

12:29 PM 09/12/2011

Answer me this: If the president and his economic advisors are right in claiming that the problem with the economy is too little consumer demand, why was consumer spending in the second quarter of this year higher than in mid-2007, before the recession began?