The Most Interesting Candidate in the World

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 8/15/14 | Matthew Continetti

[Baynative]

Jeff Bell was a reform conservative before it was cool. He’s spent his career arguing with a risk-averse Republican establishment. He pushed Ronald Reagan to embrace the supply-side doctrine of tax cuts before deficit reduction. He spent the 1990s warning the GOP that its tax policy favored investment capital over human capital, corporate interests over working families. He designed a family-friendly flat tax that reduced payroll taxes, increased the child tax credit, taxed capital gains and regular income at the same rate, and ended business expensing. Payroll tax relief and a generous child tax credit are elements of today’s reform conservatism. Bell was there first.

[Baynative]

I see a glitch on immigration. But, a good man none-the-less for someone who want's to contribute outside the RNC.

[ken5050]

Bell’s a very good man..and some here remember how he almost pulled an upset for the ages...the article is a good study of the man..but the really interesting question in the race is how Bell is keeping away from Christie...Christy’s still popular in NJ..and if he wanted to try and increase his standing among conservatives..the best way to do that is to work like heck to get Bell elected..

[JSDude1]

I don’t think Christie is interested in helping actual conservatives, Christie is interested in just one person: Christie (though I am not a NJ citizens, so I don’t know..).

[moovova]

"I don't always vote. But, when I do...I vote for the Conservative."

[gusty]

The only reason I did not vote for Jeff Bell the last time he ran for Senate was because I was too young. I’m over 50 now so he gets my vote, not 16 the last time he ran. Last time he ran for Senate, Reggie hit 3 out against the Dodgers in the World Series.

[lentulusgracchus]

I see a glitch on immigration.

Libertarians need to recognize and adjust for the international wage arbitration and social-contract subsidies that drive these intense migration pressures.

Mexican COL social subsidies are a huge driver; they leverage the dollars that migrants send home, where family members remaining behind can access all the subsidized cornmeal and other staples, and subsidized gasoline as well, using US dollars that are appreciating against the peso faster than the dollar falls against real measures of value.

Libertarians also need to recognize that access-capitalists are using tax policy to inhale as many of these people into the U.S., when it is not in the interest of the U.S., for social-policy reasons, that they do so.