The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

The fallacy of the 'revenue neutral' tax

| Glenn Jacobs
Milton Friedman

If a politician tells you that a tax hike will be revenue neutral, don’t believe him.

Why politicians make bad farmers

| Randy DeSoto

A lesson from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”

The eight principles of conservatism

| Robert J. Guenther

Sometimes it’s necessary to restate the obvious.

TheDC Video Vault: Milton Friedman on how the pencil explains the free market - TheDC

| Jamie Weinstein

‘What brought [people] together and induced them to cooperate and make this pencil? It was the magic of the price system’

BARR CODE: Leave Google alone - TheDC Opinion

| Bob Barr
google logo

Congress is persecuting Google for its success.

Restoring American educational exceptionalism

| Justin Paulette

We need to break the public education monopoly.

What if the smartest guy in the room doesn't get it?

| John Mueller

Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to appreciate the importance of foreign exchange reserves.

Senator to filibuster raising debt ceiling unless balanced budget amendment added to Constitution - TheDC

| Jeff Poor

Anonymous senate staffer tells Mark Levin to expect filibuster on ‘any attempt to raise the debt ceiling’ without conditions met

Sweden's school voucher system is a model for America

| Odd Eiken

In 1993, Sweden implemented a voucher system. Today, that system stands as proof that school choice works.

David Brooks is wrong: Size matters!

| Janie Johnson

The New York Times columnist is wrong about the proper size of government.

Time for a celebrity windfall profits tax?

| C. Scott Litch

A tax on celebrities would be terrible public policy, but it would teach celebrities a lesson.

Congress needs to save Coverdell IRAs

| Robert Enlow

Coverdell IRAs, which help parents send their children to the schools of their choice, will expire in January if Congress doesn’t act.

The debt ticking time bomb

| Ron Hart

We now have a president who is better suited to have been running Greece into the ground than implementing a sane economic policy.

Whose side is Michael Gerson on?

| Ken Larrey

Former Bush administration insiders like Michael Gerson are undermining the conservative cause.

The final nail in the Democrats' coffin

| Larry Kudlow

Government planners have created a stagflationary growth recession.

The government is paying people not to work

| Robert P. Murphy

How unemployment benefits give rise to higher unemployment rates.

Capitalism in time saves mine

| Ron Hart

Was it capitalism that got the miners out of their hole, or was it government?

Never mind the gap

| Max Borders

There’s a growing gap between rich and poor. So what?

Was Keynes a Keynesian?

| Frank Hill

Would John Maynard Keynes himself even agree with the Obama administration’s policies?

Tea Party must be an intellectual movement first, political movement second

| Troy Senik

Since the Tea Party will never be a vehicle for centrist outreach, it has to become a vehicle for reshaping the national conversation on politics.