BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Teach a man to fish. That’s the biblical admonition.
The Food Stamp program doesn’t do much of that, and that’s probably why we need to rethink our whole social safety net.
House Republicans voted to pass legislation that would save taxpayers about 40 billion dollars of spending on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
That’s a big number, and I’m pretty certain that it won’t become law. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Congressional Budget Office used dynamic scoring to predict how the immigration bill, now winding its way through Congress, would impact the deficit.
That must really piss off conservatives who have long demanded that the CBO use that scoring method (which looks beyond numbers and tries to predict future behavioral changes) to predict how tax cuts would actually bring in more revenue.
The Heritage Foundation, which has long been on the forefront of demanding that the CBO use dynamic scoring, released its own analysis a few weeks ago that came up with far different conclusions. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The welfare state begets the nanny state.
I was thinking about this fact in the context of the Mayor of New York, the immigration debate, and our national debt.
Michael Bloomberg may or may not care about the personal health of his constituents. What he definitely cares about is the rising cost of health care in his city, and that is why he is doing his level best to create the world’s largest day-care center in the Big Apple.
Bloomberg is trying to get New Yorkers healthier by banning trans-fat, cutting down on the amount of soda pop consumed, and by keeping cigarettes out of the sight of those who might be tempted to smoke merely by the sight of smokes. Continue reading
BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
There are two ways to look at the proposal to increase the minimum wage put out by the President in his State of the Union Address.
There is the way that economists and small business owners look at it: Increasing the minimum wage makes it harder for businesses to hire workers.
Then there is the way that some on the left look at it: Only by increasing the minimum wage will you entice people off of welfare and into the workforce. Continue reading