Outside the Beltway

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

The Bush tax cuts were much more progressive than you probably think.

One part of the Supreme Court’s PPACA ruling has not received a lot of attention, but it has the potential to have a lot of impact in the future.

“Can Domestic Policy Affect Income Distribution?” Why, yes, yes it can.

The NYT has an interesting piece on the ongoing limted v. big governemnt debate.

Well, maybe not so brief…

Increasing taxes on the rich may be a fiscal policy worth talking about, but it won’t make the poor richer.

Does “Occupy Wall Street” really represent the people they claim to be speaking for?

The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.

With the advantage of hindsight, it’s clear that more creative strategies were needed. But they probably couldn’t have been passed.

Although he didn’t get the words quite right yesterday, Mitt Romney was exactly right about corporations.

Some thoughts on the riots (especially some US partisan responses to it).

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

There really isn’t a lot of redistribution happening in the United States.

Wondering why CATO doesn’t rail against big business is like demanding to know why NARAL doesn’t spend more time advocating for the plight of stray cats or why PETA doesn’t seem to care about the homeless.

Is it possible to govern and not engage in some amount of redistribution?

The American copyright system is broken. Cory Doctorow offers some useful suggestions for fixing it.

Okahoma’s James Inhofe has a message for the Tea Party movement — don’t be fooled by the “War On Earmarks.”

Unless eliminating earmarks coincides with a radical reconception of how our government operates, it may be a step in the wrong direction.

If you believe that the United States is built on Judeo-Christian principles, why would you oppose the redistribution of wealth?

While Matt Yglesias is right that talk about “Realignment” after a single election is ridiculous, there have indeed been realigning elections in U.S. history.

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.

Matt Yglesias argues that “Northern Europe is Egalitarian Because of High Taxes.” I would argue that he has his causality backwards.