J.D. Foster, Author at The Daily Signal

What Recovery Summer?

J.D. Foster | August 06, 2010

The Obama Administration announced “Recovery Summer” in June to highlight the expected gains in jobs and economic strength resulting from Obama’s stimulus.. Well, maybe next… Read More

Economy

It’s Official: Medicare’s Finances Shadowed by Uncertainty

J.D. Foster | August 05, 2010

If you do a quick read of the Medicare Trustees Report, it would seem that Medicare’s finances have dramatically improved since last year. The 2010… Read More

Economy

Congress Reaches New Heights of Tax Hike Cynicism

J.D. Foster | August 05, 2010

Progress is often a matter of higher, faster, further—profits are higher, computer chips are faster, cars run further on a gallon of gas. In Washington,… Read More

Economy

Tax Cut Myth Busting, Round 2

J.D. Foster | August 03, 2010

Bill Gale’s discussion of the five myths about the Bush tax cuts was an unusually slanted piece from a normally straight-shooting liberal economist. With respect… Read More

Economy

Liberals’ Deficit Chicken Is Taxpayers’ Soaring Eagle

J.D. Foster | July 29, 2010

Liberals are desperate to bully or chide the rest of the country into accepting massive new taxes to support the recent federal spending surge. Many… Read More

Economy

Reid’s Deficit Addiction Is Blocking Unemployment Benefits Extension

J.D. Foster | July 19, 2010

There’s only one reason nearly 2 million American former workers are without unemployment benefits today: Senator Reid (D-NV) and his Democratic colleagues’ addiction to deficit… Read More

Economy

Congress’ Small Business Tax Schizophrenia

J.D. Foster | July 02, 2010

An old saying applicable to dysfunctional organizations is that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. The President and Congress have… Read More

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Articles by J.D. Foster

What Recovery Summer?

It’s Official: Medicare’s Finances Shadowed by Uncertainty

Congress Reaches New Heights of Tax Hike Cynicism

Tax Cut Myth Busting, Round 2

Liberals’ Deficit Chicken Is Taxpayers’ Soaring Eagle

Reid’s Deficit Addiction Is Blocking Unemployment Benefits Extension

Greenspan’s Economics Trips on His Naïve Politics, Again

On Stimulus, Krugman Feints, Mankiw Parries, Both Miss

Democrats Mean to Raise Middle Class Taxes in 2011

Congress’ Small Business Tax Schizophrenia