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  • The Democrats’ Refounding of America

    By Christopher Caldwell - Aug 13, 2020

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    Principles of Government · August 13, 2020 ·

    SELECTED PASSAGES …But progressives have begun to describe the country that existed before the 1960s as not just flawed but outright illegitimate—and Democrats are following their lead.  In this view, the civil rights movement wasn’t just a reform but a refounding. That is what makes the anointing of John Lewis as a “Founding Father” …so… Read More

    These excerpts are included to illustrate how the left is transforming our culture, our politics, and our society by outflanking the democratic process through the courts.

    Filed Under: Articles, Education, Culture, Ideology, Federal Agencies and Administrative Law, Politics, Political Parties, Election Regulations, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Entitlements Always Grow and Grow

    By John F. Cogan - Jan. 3, 2022 

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    Principles of Government · January 22, 2022 ·

    The ‘equally worthy claim’ inexorably prompts further expansion, regardless of lawmakers’ initial limits. Sen. Joe Manchin’s emphatic “no” to the current version of Build Back Better put the bill on life support. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, having promised a Senate vote, now must try to maintain the bill’s progressive priorities—including a raft of new and… Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Democrats’ Stealth Plan to Enact Universal Basic Income

    By Robert Doar and Matt Weidinger - March 3, 2021

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    Principles of Government · May 19, 2021 ·

    Universal basic income is about to arrive in America. Congressional Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus bill provides for no-strings attached checks, limited only to parents of children under 18. This UBI for parents is billed as pandemic relief, but its real purpose is to put a stake in the heart of work-based welfare reform. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Biden’s Plan for an Entitlement Society

    By John F. Cogan and Daniel L. Heil - June 29, 2021

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    Principles of Government · July 24, 2021 ·

    The federal government’s system of entitlements is the largest money-shuffling machine in human history, and President Biden intends to make it a lot bigger. His American Families Plan—which he recently attempted to tie to a bipartisan infrastructure deal—proposes to extend the reach of federal entitlements to 21 million additional Americans, the largest expansion since Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society.

    For the first time in U.S. history…more than half of working-age households would be on the entitlement rolls if the plan were enacted in its current form. Contrary to Mr. Biden’s assertion that his plan “doesn’t add a single penny to our deficits,” his plan would add more than $1 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Black Mayors in the Four Biggest Cities. Is That a ‘Big Deal’?

    By Jason L. Riley - Nov. 29, 2022

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    Principles of Government · November 30, 2022 ·

    Anyone familiar with the experience of other ethnic groups, such as the Irish, won’t be surprised that black political influence—including the election of a black president—hasn’t translated into more black socioeconomic advancement. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Politics, Political Parties, Election Regulations, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem

    By Phil Gramm and John Early - Aug. 29, 2022

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    Principles of Government · September 1, 2022 ·

    Real government transfer payments to the bottom 20% of household earners surged by 269% between 1967 and 2017, while middle-income households saw their real earnings after taxes rise by only 154% during the same period. That has largely equalized the income of the bottom 60% of Americans. This government-created equality has caused the labor-force participation rate to collapse among working-age people in low-income households and unleashed a populist realignment that is unraveling the coalition that has dominated American politics since the 1930s. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    It’s the Entitlements, Stupid

    By The Editorial Board - The Wall Street Journal - June 29, 2021

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    Principles of Government · July 24, 2021 ·

    Sen. Joe Manchin’s public support Sunday for at least $2 trillion in new spending in a partisan budget bill is a huge win for the political left. This means a giant tax-and-spend bill this year is likely, and the biggest expansion of the entitlement state since the 1960s is now possible.

    The entitlements are by far the biggest long-term economic threat from the Biden agenda. Tax increases can be repealed by a future Congress. Spending on infrastructure will slow as funding falls. The courts may block his racial preferences. But entitlements that spend automatically based on eligibility are nearly impossible to repeal, or even reform, and they represent a huge tax-and-spend wedge far into the future.

    The media won’t talk about this, and Republicans are so far missing in action. But Americans need to understand the stakes. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Disparity Doesn’t Necessarily Imply Racism

    By Roland Fryer - Nov. 25, 2022

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    Principles of Government · December 4, 2022 ·

    “We find,” they wrote in the abstract of their paper, “that this one test score explains all of the black-white wage gap for young women and much of the gap for young men.” With their approach, antiblack bias played no role in the divergent wages among women; a black woman with the same qualifications as a white woman made slightly more money. And it accounted for at most 29% of the racial difference among men, with 71% traceable to disparate performance on the AFQT. The AFQT itself was evaluated by the Pentagon, which found that black and white military recruits with similar AFQT scores performed similarly on the job—indicating no racial bias. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    A Plan to Save America’s Finances

    By Paul Ryan - Nov. 16, 2022

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    Principles of Government · December 4, 2022 ·

    U.S. fiscal policy is on a collision course with monetary policy. The economic devastation resulting from a debt and currency crisis could inflict enormous—possibly irreparable—damage. Predicting precisely when a huge debt and high deficits will unleash economic disaster is difficult. The dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency gives the U.S. unique advantages, but no country can defy the laws of economic gravity forever. The U.S. has run up large budget deficits and debts before, but those moments of national emergency, such as world wars or global financial crises, were usually—at least until recently—followed by periods of fiscal repair. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

    Biden’s Cradle-to-Grave Government

    By The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal - April 29, 2021

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    Principles of Government · May 26, 2021 ·

    The progressive hits keep coming from the Biden Administration, and the latest is the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan introduced in broad strokes on Wednesday. It’s more accurate to call this the plan to make the middle class dependent on government from cradle to grave. The government will tell you sometime later, after you’re hooked to the state, how it will force you to pay for it. Read More

    Filed Under: Articles, Fiscal Policy, Social Policy, Transfers and Entitlements

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