Obama Turns to Class Warfare (Townhall.com) December 19, 2011
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President Obama traveled to Kansas recently to tell Americans that inequality is “the defining issue of our time.” So with a nod to “occupy” protestors, Obama played the class card, calling for tax increases on the wealthy to fund programs for the middle class.
At one level, the President is framing the big issue of the election in his favor—that our economic problem is not government spending and deficits, but income inequality. It may not be the defining issue of our time, but he’d like it to be for his reelection.
He’s also coming down on the wrong side of the long debate in America between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed in the 1800s, the French believe in equality and security whereas Americans believe in freedom.
The President says the Republican economic approach is old school, but there’s nothing older or more inappropriate than Obama’s European style socialism and class warfare.
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Federal-State Tug of War in the Supreme Court (Townhall.com) December 27, 2011
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided it should review the 9th Circuit Court’s decision that parts of Arizona’s immigration law are unconstitutional. This is both right and hugely important.
We are in the midst of a major tug of war between a growing federal government and the power of the states. And now, having decided to hear both the Constitutional challenge to Obamacare and the attack on Arizona’s immigration law, the Supreme Court is correctly weighing in on two of the biggest federal power grabs in recent years.
At issue in Arizona is whether federal immigration law preempts, in effect, any state action on the matter. Arizona argues persuasively that its law complements federal law and is essential because the feds aren’t controlling the problem.
Both healthcare and immigration are important politically, just months before the election. But they are more important for maintaining state powers under the 10th amendment.
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