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Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits the Poor, Working People, and the Middle Class

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-15T21:05:36-05:00November 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 15, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon note in their underappreciated work, It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, that in the last century,1900 to 2000, real per capita GDP in America grew by nearly 7 times, meaning the American standard of living grew by that much as well. The authors explain,

“It is hard for us to imagine, for example, that in 1900 less than one in five […]

Should We Raise Taxes on the Rich?

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-15T20:13:06-05:00November 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 14, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Barack Obama says that now that he has been re-elected, that means a majority of Americans agree with him that taxes should be raised on “the rich,” so that they would pay their “fair share.” But that policy makes no sense from any reasoned perspective.

Obama’s Tax Increases, Your Unemployment

On January 1, the tax increases of Obamacare become effective, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which President Obama refuses to renew for the nation’s […]

Supreme Court to Hear Constitutional Challenge to Voting Rights Act

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-13T16:14:47-05:00November 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 9, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Early next year, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a constitutional challenge to one of the most powerful provisions in federal law, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in the case Shelby County v. Holder.

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. It gives force to the Fifteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids voting rights from being abridged on account of race or color. Whenever […]

The Fiscal Cliff and America's Coming Recession

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-12T11:58:58-05:00November 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP. America prospered to become the mightiest economic power in the history of the world with the federal government limited to that level of spending.

But President Obama is certain he has a better idea. He wants higher taxes and higher federal spending. Only with that can he “spread the wealth around.” He […]

Where Republicans and Conservatives Went Wrong

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-09T14:34:15-05:00November 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The American people lost literally trillions in the financial crisis, in home values, in stock values, and in lost jobs and wages. Obama had a narrative as to what caused the financial crisis. It was Bush’s, and maybe even Reagan’s, tax cuts, and Republican deregulation. And the argument that won the election for Obama in my opinion was that Romney just wanted to go back to the same policies that caused the financial crisis (the mess we […]

Dismissed Obamacare Lawsuit May Return to Lower Court

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00November 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 2, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Just when most people thought all legal challenges to the Individual Mandate were dead and buried, one springs back to life, and with a twist.

Unless they’ve been living under a rock, most Americans have heard that the Supreme Court decided a constitutional challenge to Obamacare’s infamous Individual Mandate in NFIB v. Sebelius. Plenty of Americans are unaware, however, that out of over 30 cases challenging the Mandate, NFIB was only one of five challenges that were considered serious and credible.

Another one […]

President Obama Offers a Repeat of His Same Failed Policies

By ACRU Staff|2012-11-06T08:23:52-05:00November 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.

A central theme of President Obama’s reelection campaign is that we can’t go back to the same economic policies that caused “the mess we are in,” by which he means the 2008 financial crisis. He identifies those policies as the same tax rate cuts and regulatory rollbacks supported by GOP nominee Mitt Romney. This is just about the only Obama theme that has resonated with at least some of the public.

But substantively […]

ACRU Asks Holder to Investigate Connecticut Mayor's Comments

By ACRU Staff|2012-10-29T12:53:54-04:00October 29th, 2012|

On October 12th, Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch was caught on tape arguably boasting that he would guarantee U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy however many Bridgeport votes it took for Murphy to win the election in November. On Oct. 24, ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. asking the Justice Department to make inquiries and to monitor the voting process in Bridgeport from now until Election Day.

Click here for the letter. (PDF)

ACLU Says Father-Daughter Dance 'Contrary to Federal Law'

By ACRU Staff|2012-10-22T22:51:33-04:00October 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU’s war on the normal.

It makes a perverse sort of sense, because Cranston reportedly is the inspiration for Quahog, R.I., the fictitious setting of Seth MacFarlane’s vulgar, anti-family Fox TV comedy “Family Guy.” Mr. MacFarlane, who has been […]

A Modest Proposal

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 10, 2012 on Townhall.com.

California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California’s prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California’s largest city. California’s 2012 budget deficit is expected to top $28 billion, and its state debt is $618 billion. That’s more than twice the size of New York’s state debt, which itself is the second-highest in the nation.