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This idea to use the tax code as a method for getting businesses to replace illegals with legal workers is amazing! Trump could do an executive order and put this in place immediately. It's even better than building a wall because a border wall doesn't do anything about the illegals who are already here. This article describes something that would cause millions of illegals thrown out of work to deport themselves. No ICE round-ups necessary. No need to wait for Congress!!!!

MINNESOTA and Wisconsin share much more than bone-chilling winters: German and Northern European roots; farming; and, until recently, a populist progressive tradition stretching back a century to Wisconsin’s Fighting Bob La Follette and the birth of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. But in 2010 these cousin states diverged. By doing so they began a natural experiment that compares the agendas of modern progressivism and the new right. Wisconsin elected Republicans to majorities in the Legislature and selected a bold and vigorous

What is happening to you America? Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that the world had ever seen sprouted up from coast to coast. Good jobs were plentiful and a manufacturing boom helped fuel the rise of the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the planet. Cities such as Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Baltimore were all teeming with economic activity and the rest of the globe looked on our economic miracle with a mixture of wonder and envy. But now look at...

y DAVID M. WALKER, The Fiscal Times December 30, 2011 In Washington, if you want to make something public while minimizing press attention, you should release it on a Friday. The current Administration topped that by issuing the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. Government, which included the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) related independent audit report on the Friday before Christmas when the public was focused on the holiday season and key policymakers were either headed out of town or already gone. The report was simply posted on the Internet and provided to the press on request and without any...

s we pop the corks of our proverbial champagne this weekend with an eye to a better year ahead, perhaps it is worth thinking about these 11 incredible trends that have evolved in a rather disturbing manner over the last 11 years. As John Lohman points out, the 21st century has not been pretty for ongoing centrally planned attempts to defer the 30 year overdue mean reversion.

(Nov. 1) -- The American people are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore. They're tired of billion-dollar bailouts that have bankrupted the country. They are tired of Democratic politicians who are raising their taxes. They are tired of a Congress that has basically done nothing over the past two years. Come Tuesday, these angry voters are going to shake up Washington, by voting for a Republican Party committed to reversing the failed policies of the Democratic Party. Sounds like a pretty good list of complaints, right? There's one problem. It's simply wrong. In reality, bank...

Last Friday, it was reported that economic growth was only 2.4 percent in the second quarter of this year - far below what the Obama administration had forecast. Yet the administration and its supporters continue to be in denial about the fact that their policies are not working. Psychologists refer to the refusal to change one's mind when confronted with contrary evidence as cognitive dissonance. As almost everyone now knows, there are two competing theories about how to revive the American economy. One theory is to promote the supply-side of the economy by cutting tax rates or at least to...

The only way to take down the current DNC, and drive the Liberals out, is to eliminate the DNC’s revenue stream. To do that, pressure must be put on all the major DNC donors to just stop giving to the current Democrats in office, and to the DNC itself. This is something the Tea Party movement doesn’t seem to understand, and that many of you in the conservative and moderate ranks never think about. It’s kind of like taking Al Capone down for tax evasion. It’s not as sexy as protesting at a Senator’s office or holding a big “convention”...

It was a tense moment in the West Wing. Less than a year into a new president's term, a Senate seat was slipping to the opposition and taking with it the balance of power in the upper chamber. The president's agenda was suddenly at risk.

Obama's Imaginary Consensus By David Harsanyi President Barack Obama grimly warned America this week that if his health care plans fail, the nation will go "bankrupt." Sure, adding another trillion-dollar entitlement program to our $12 trillion of debt may seem like a counterintuitive way to stave off economic ruin, but who are we to argue? The president's got smarts. Receive news alerts Sign Up David Harsanyi RealClearPolitics Health care Barack Obama And as is the case with so many issues, Obama adorned his rhetoric with sharp warnings of calamity should he fail, fabricated consensus to buttress his case and a...

James Carafano: Why 1978 was a very bad year By: James Carafano Examiner Columnist October 26, 2009 He followed an unpopular president. He received a strong election mandate. He changed the tone in Washington. He said that Human Rights mattered. That America's image in the world had to be remade. He would receive a Nobel Peace Prize. As the end of his presidency's first year drew near, the future looked bright. He had brought change -- change that mattered. It was 1977. The next year was very bad. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter negotiated the Camp David Accords, formalizing peace...

Newspaper ad sales have been falling for years, but never as fast as they did last quarter. Print ad sales fell 30% year-over-year in Q1, led by a 42% year-over-year drop in classified ad sales, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Meanwhile, newspapers' online ad sales dropped 13% year-over-year in Q1, their first double-digit decline since the Newspaper Association started measuring them in 2004.

Commentary Is Obama Another Jimmy Carter? Bahukutumbi Raman, 05.25.09, 11:35 AM ET During the U.S. Presidential primaries last year, I had expressed my misgivings that Barack Obama might turn out to be another Jimmy Carter, whose confused thinking and soft image paved the way for the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The subsequent Iranian defiance of the U.S. and Carter's inability to deal effectively with the crisis in which Iranian students raided the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and held a number of U.S. diplomats hostage led to disillusionment with him in sections of the U.S. and to his...

Unless this capital is forthcoming, a clutch of countries will prove unable to roll over their debts at a bearable cost. Those that cannot print money to tide them through, either because they no longer have a national currency (Ireland, Club Med), or because they borrowed abroad (East Europe), run the biggest risk of default. Traders already whisper that some governments are buying their own debt through proxies at bond auctions to keep up illusions – not to be confused with transparent buying by central banks under quantitative easing. This cannot continue for long. Gilt buyers back after shock failed...

Rescued Banks Balk at Chrysler Deal Creditors Pushed To Surrender Claims Of Billions Friday, April 17, 2009 At a meeting with executives from four of the nation's largest banks earlier this month, the chief of the government's auto task force, Steven Rattner, delivered a message that shocked some in the room. To save Chrysler, he told them, the four banks and several other financial firms would have to surrender their claims to most of the $7 billion the automaker owed them. And what would the banks get in return for this sacrifice? Nothing. "People's jaws just dropped," said a person...

April 02, 2009 The Fallacious Notion of Job Creation By John Tamny "any country can have heavy unemployment if it is willing and able to pay for it." - Benjamin Anderson, Economics and the Public Welfare With unemployment presently on an upward tilt, politicians on both sides of the aisle have unsurprisingly made job creation their number one priority. It’s almost a tautology that politicians can’t create jobs, but this reality has not deterred them. President Obama has pointed to a near trillion dollar stimulus program as the path to creating over 3 million new jobs, while House minority leader...

Tim Geithner did a good job on the Sunday talk-show circuit yesterday. He has survived his near-death experience of two weeks ago, and the betting odds that he'll be ousted by June have fallen back to 10%. But there's one question he still refuses to answer. Why is he bailing out the people who lent trillions of dollars to our now-insolvent banks? Each of the bailed-out institutions has tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to cover losses before the taxpayer had to cough up a dime. And with the exception of Lehman Brothers (and, now,...

<p>"If we don't tackle energy, if we don't improve our education system, if we don't drive down the costs of health care, if we're not making serious investments in science and technology and our infrastructure, then we won't grow 2.6%, we won't grow 2.2%. We won't grow."</p>

The Geithner Plan [David Freddoso] What to make of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal, and his plan to save the financial system through a Public-Private Investment Program? Rep. Scott Garrett (R, N.J.), one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who really understands the issues involved and asks pertinent questions during hearings, told me that he has a few concerns with it. Among them: 1) Is a $500 billion to $1 trillion plan large enough to restore confidence for investors, when the size of the problem here is greater than $2 trillion?...

New York, NY - The state is trying to shut down a New York City doctor's ambitious plan to treat uninsured patients for around $1,000 a year. Dr. John Muney offers his patients everything from mammograms to mole removal at his AMG Medical Group clinics, which operate in all five boroughs. "I'm trying to help uninsured people here," he said. His patients agree to pay $79 a month for a year in return for unlimited office visits with a $10 co-pay. But his plan landed him in the crosshairs of the state Insurance Department, which ordered him to drop his...