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		<title>Tech at Night: Opening up the OPEN Act, FCC spectrum insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, we beat SOPA, but the problem of foreign infringers is still around. And we&#8217;re not just talking about online copyright infringement, either. Copies of clothing, purses, gadgets, you name it: foreign free riders are a problem. It&#8217;s an important tradeoff to find, so an open process for the Darrell Issa OPEN Act is a good one . A slow, consensus-based approach is also smart , so I&#8217;m glad consensus is what Eric Cantor and John Boehner are demanding from a bill on this topic. The alternative is picking winners and losers. That&#8217;s not good for government to do, even if it&#8217;s been a problem for a long time , to the annoyance of Frédéric Bastiat. Speaking of picking winners and losers, FCC Spectrum management is falling apart . The more the FCC controls who&#8217;s bidding, and how the winners of the auctions will use that spectrum, the less efficiently we allocate and use that critical, limited resource. So naturally what are we looking at? Hassling Verizon for doing what it has to instead of fixing the FCC. Seriously: People who say that any Republican would be anywhere near the problem Obama is, simply need to look more closely at just how awful the Obama regulators are. They are completely out of control. We need to defeat Barack Obama and restore some sanity at FCC, FTC, EPA, and the rest. Google and Facebook will obey Indian censorship laws . Singling out Twitter for abuse over foreign censorship laws never made much sense, folks. Programming note: due to CPAC and my traveling cross country to it, this will be the only Tech at Night post this week. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: Opening up the OPEN Act, FCC spectrum insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SpurgeonValentine913</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, we beat SOPA, but the problem of foreign infringers is still around. And we&#8217;re not just talking about online copyright infringement, either. Copies of clothing, purses, gadgets, you name it: foreign free riders are a problem. It&#8217;s an important tradeoff to find, so an open process for the Darrell Issa OPEN Act is a good one . A slow, consensus-based approach is also smart , so I&#8217;m glad consensus is what Eric Cantor and John Boehner are demanding from a bill on this topic. The alternative is picking winners and losers. That&#8217;s not good for government to do, even if it&#8217;s been a problem for a long time , to the annoyance of Frédéric Bastiat. Speaking of picking winners and losers, FCC Spectrum management is falling apart . The more the FCC controls who&#8217;s bidding, and how the winners of the auctions will use that spectrum, the less efficiently we allocate and use that critical, limited resource. So naturally what are we looking at? Hassling Verizon for doing what it has to instead of fixing the FCC. Seriously: People who say that any Republican would be anywhere near the problem Obama is, simply need to look more closely at just how awful the Obama regulators are. They are completely out of control. We need to defeat Barack Obama and restore some sanity at FCC, FTC, EPA, and the rest. Google and Facebook will obey Indian censorship laws . Singling out Twitter for abuse over foreign censorship laws never made much sense, folks. Programming note: due to CPAC and my traveling cross country to it, this will be the only Tech at Night post this week. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: Opening up the OPEN Act, FCC spectrum insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ebliversidge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yes, we beat SOPA, but the problem of foreign infringers is still around. And we&#8217;re not just talking about online copyright infringement, either. Copies of clothing, purses, gadgets, you name it: foreign free riders are a problem. It&#8217;s an important tradeoff to find, so an open process for the Darrell Issa OPEN Act is a good one . A slow, consensus-based approach is also smart , so I&#8217;m glad consensus is what Eric Cantor and John Boehner are demanding from a bill on this topic. The alternative is picking winners and losers. That&#8217;s not good for government to do, even if it&#8217;s been a problem for a long time , to the annoyance of Frédéric Bastiat. Speaking of picking winners and losers, FCC Spectrum management is falling apart . The more the FCC controls who&#8217;s bidding, and how the winners of the auctions will use that spectrum, the less efficiently we allocate and use that critical, limited resource. So naturally what are we looking at? Hassling Verizon for doing what it has to instead of fixing the FCC. Seriously: People who say that any Republican would be anywhere near the problem Obama is, simply need to look more closely at just how awful the Obama regulators are. They are completely out of control. We need to defeat Barack Obama and restore some sanity at FCC, FTC, EPA, and the rest. Google and Facebook will obey Indian censorship laws . Singling out Twitter for abuse over foreign censorship laws never made much sense, folks. Programming note: due to CPAC and my traveling cross country to it, this will be the only Tech at Night post this week. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: France fines Google for giving away free maps, FCC reform, Pastrami</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kalpanaceo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Good news? I had a great Pastrami Burger tonight from a place called The Hat . Seriously: the pastrami itself is great, and I&#8217;ll probably go for the Pastrami Dip next time. Bad news? It was a busy evening and now I&#8217;m tired. The good news that wins out? Not much to cover tonight, so let&#8217;s go. In France it&#8217;s illegal to give away free maps . Yes, Google is reportedly having to pay €500,000 because a French cartographer didn&#8217;t like the competition. Insane. Reminds me of one of the times Rick Santorum made a point to stand up for big government: when he tried to get government out of the business of providing &#8220;free&#8221; taxpayer-funded competition to private weather services. Of course, Google&#8217;s free services are under fire in the US, too , so we can&#8217;t get too smug yet. The push for a sales tax compact marches on . I still say it needs more safeguards against ever-higher taxes, double taxes, a national sales tax, and other forms of expansion. And yes, Republican FCC reform plans are pro-growth by checking the runaway FCC. ]]></description>
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		<title>Governors Branstad and Brownback Spew Hot Air for Big Wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ After billions in stimulus funding failed to transform impotent green energy sources into profitable endeavors, even Obama has taken a break from promoting Wind and Solar.  He is even talking more about oil and gas exploration, although his sincerity is in serious doubt.  Unfortunately, some Republicans have not relinquished their affinity for using public funds to prop up their local wind industry. Yesterday, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback sent a letter to the 20 members of the payroll tax cut conference committee imploring them to extend the Production Tax Cut (PTC) for Big Wind, set to expire at the end of the year.  They warned that &#8220;wind development will grind to [a] halt due to the uncertainty of a PTC extension.&#8221; The PTC is among 51 ‘tax extenders’ that have either expired last December or are slated to expire this December.  It grants a 2.2 cent/per kilowatt-hour refundable credit for wind, solar, or geothermal.  Believe it or not, that is a large sum of money.  According to the Heritage Foundation , if the oil industry received a commensurate subsidy, they would get a $30 check for every barrel produced.  The PTC is tantamount to an Earned Income Tax Credit for corporations. As such, the governors are probably correct to assume that Big Wind will grind to a halt without the credit.  And that’s how it should be in our free-market economy.  Why is this any different than Obama’s attempt to pick winners and losers?  Actually, in this instance, we would be picking losers as winners.  While ending the tax credit will probably bring down Big Wind, it’s not like the subsidy actually helped Wind become prosperous.  In 2010, wind accounted for 0.9% of our energy supply, geothermal 0.2%, and solar 0.1% .  Many states offered their own tax credits to the wind industry, and lost money.  In Texas, the property tax break alone cost the state $1.6 million per job created. What we really need to do is to let all targeted tax breaks expire, especially to those industries that have no tax liability to begin with.  Last year, Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) introduced legislation ( HR 3308 ) to sunset all non-universal energy tax credits and grants, including those for fossil fuels and nuclear power .  The bill would use the savings from the repeal of these credits (roughly $90 billion over ten years) to lower the corporate tax rate on everyone, including green energy companies (to the extent that they pay taxes at all). HR 3308 has 18 co-sponsors, including Paul Ryan.  It should garner the support of the entire caucus. Yesterday, Senators DeMint and Lee introduced the bill in the Senate .  We should urge everyone to cosponsor the bill. When we’re trying to draw bold contrasts to Obama on the issue of venture socialism, the last thing we need is members from our party muddling the distinction by offering their constituents an echo, instead of a choice. Cross-posted From The Madison Project ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: Google causes a privacy stir, Twitter causes a censorship stir, Grassley continues to fight</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2012/01/28/tech-at-night-google-causes-a-privacy-stir-twitter-causes-a-censorship-stir-grassley-continues-to-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TrevorLandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, Google is integrating its websites more. As a result, some privacy settings will apply network-wide, and one site will be able to use data from another site. People are flipping out, naturally. People have been giving Google this data for ages. People have known that Google was watching them, and yet they chose to keep using Google and in fact use one account for many Google services . Note that the new policy changes nothing about what Google already knew about you. It just changes what certain Google sites will use about you. As Marsha Blackburn and other members of Congress begin to look into it though, Google isn&#8217;t helping its case by pleading that it&#8217;s alright because certain users are excluded , which just furthers the premise that there&#8217;s something wrong with it. But ultimately, you&#8217;re in control of what you do online . Personal responsibility: it&#8217;s not just for breakfast anymore. I feel vindicated though in having about a dozen Google accounts for the limited times I had use for their services, usual in the course of helping somebody else. Different accounts for different uses and different sites. It was never hard. You just had to do it. Oh, and not use their email. Once again, the real LightSquared issue isn&#8217;t even LightSquared. This is about the Obama administration. the actual decision is irrelevant at this point and Chuck Grassley will keep fighting for process transparency . The SOPA battle didn&#8217;t end with defeating SOPA. We still need to solve the problem of foreign free riders. That&#8217;s why Steve Forbes joins those taking a look at the OPEN Act . I&#8217;m just one guy, but it wasn&#8217;t hard for me to figure out why this Washington Post story is garbage . In the course of making the case against Net Neutrality, by pointing out that we need wireless providers to be able to innovate and expand, and get those innovations and expansions paid for, the WaPo claims that Apple&#8217;s Siri would overload wireless networks. That never made sense, though, and of course it&#8217;s not true . Siri&#8217;s sending in a few seconds of audio, and getting back some text, then maybe doing a web search. That&#8217;s not going to kill a network. It&#8217;s not even video. The problems are spectrum (we need more of it) and regulation (we need less of it). Get government out of the way, and we&#8217;ll allow incentives to build bigger, better networks. Unless the Roaming regulations which actually encouraged Sprint to reduce its network coverage, free riding on competitors&#8217; networks, reducing total capacity and harming rural users. So again, one of the better things we can do is whip the FCC into shape by restricting its freedom to do bad things. No more picking winners and losers . California coughs up a million bucks after losing its video game censorship case . Watch people cheer, until they remember the ESA was pro-SOPA. Twitter wants to censor EuroNazis and probably Chinese users. Blaming Twitter for this is dumb. But then again, Anonymous and other radicals pitching a fit about this don&#8217;t intend to actually stand up to Red China or the EuroSocialists who censor their people online. Blaming Americans is the easier route, so naturally they take it. It&#8217;s easy to talk about turning over Facebook and others accounts after people die , but in the case of all free online accounts, how do you prove that the deceased actually &#8220;owned&#8221; that account? With most property there is a paper trail, a transaction, or something that ties the owner to the property. But free online accounts, who do they really &#8220;belong&#8221; to? And how do you prove it, without a paper trail? ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: More Copyright, and the Wyden-Issa OPEN act gains attention</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2012/01/26/tech-at-night-more-copyright-and-the-wyden-issa-open-act-gains-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HigleyLocklear930</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Some are still worried about the Megaupload takedown (including many the Motorola Mobility starts an aggressive patent suit against Apple . Google, trying to aquire MM, says they only use patents defensively. Will they pledge to drop this suit should they take over the firm&#8217;s patents? ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP shelved, Blackburn tells it how it is on spectrum, Online anarcho-terrorists attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MendesIdalia899</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It was a long fight. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I kept saying that SOPA and PROTECT IP were in trouble. But they&#8217;re getting shelved now . Sure, there&#8217;s whining about it . And the President still is too cowardly to lead . Now it&#8217;s time to move on to the next step, though, and find a sensible way to attack the foreign infringers , who essentially are free riders on the American copyright system, taking advantage of the scarcity imposed by copyright without themselves respecting the rules that create that scarcity. You can tell who&#8217;s trying to make this into a fight against copyright though, by the way Megaupload is being made out as a victim . When Megaupload in fact was a company that was making big bucks as a place you could stash files for broad distribution without regard for copyright, and they&#8217;re rightfully being shut down. So it&#8217;s not surprising that the terror group Anonymous is defending them and attacking the United States of America in the process. This is an anti-American lawless band of thugs that needs to be be made to pay. And they always do get caught. We just have to wonder whether there will be a backlash against an open Internet thanks to that anarchist scum. I&#8217;m glad Marsha Blackburn flipped on SOPA, because she&#8217;s making fantastic points on spectrum . FCC management of spectrum holds back even good policies like auctions. Those failures keep spectrum idle, and thus harm the public by creating artificial scarcity. They don&#8217;t do the job right, and so now we need to stand over them and tell them what to do. They had a chance, they failed. Read the whole thing. Google has a long way do go before it earns trust from a lot of people. People aren&#8217;t going to forget soon how closely Google allied with Barack Obama, and then how Google allied with the radical left to push for Internet regulation. So Google&#8217;s position on SOPA is being met with skepticism from some , and it&#8217;s hard to say it&#8217;s unwarranted. Ah, the open Internet . ]]></description>
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		<title>Tech at Night: SOPA day wrap-up, and the next fight: taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So, Erick Erickson decided to make a big push against SOPA today, again bringing out the primary threat card . I also had a post on SOPA and PROTECT IP today . We were heard. On the House side, Speaker John Boehner echoed Majority Leader Eric Cantor , and said the committee needs to find consensus before the bill can get a vote. And again, conservatives like Darrell Issa, Justin Amash, and Jason Chaffetz aren&#8217;t going to lie down and quit. So as long as Boehner and Cantor are true to their words, SOPA is dead in the House this Congress. On the Senate side, of the 16 Republicans co-sponsoring PROTECT IP, I&#8217;ve received word of six of them changing their minds. Kelly Ayotte, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, and Marco Rubio are dropping their support. Moe was keeping track , but I think Ayotte flipped after the posted. The threat of electoral consequences is all a politician will listen to. Democrats know that the online left won&#8217;t lift a finger, so Democrats are still backing SOPA and PROTECT IP, much to Markos Moulitsas&#8217;s disappointment . We stood on principle, while Daily Kos just whined. We got results, he got blown off. Erick even tried to make this a bipartisan thing, where both sides would primary the SOPA and PROTECT IP supporters, but he got crickets. Lamar Smith remains primary target number one though, as he does his best impression of the Saddam Hussein Ministry of Propaganda. The Allies are not in Iraq! SOPA is still in control of the country! It&#8217;s all lies! Also, Lamar Smith is himself an E-PARASITE . Will he resign and report to prison? And remember: being against the SOPA/PROTECT IP plan is not the same as being pro-infringement. There are better, more workable ideas . I started talking about PROTECT IP last May, back when the Kos left was all in favor of Internet regulation. So I&#8217;m staying ahead of the game and will continue to beat the drum about the next fight: national and Internet sales taxation. There&#8217;s a plan gaining steam called the Marketplace Fairness Act, and we all know what it means when people talk about &#8220;tax fairness:&#8221; Grab your wallet. Governors love the plan , no, really , as it&#8217;s a way of raising taxes while claiming you&#8217;re not raising taxes. That saves them a political fight to cut spending. They then resort to personal attacks on the opposition, by claiming they&#8217;re &#8220;evaders&#8221; or &#8220;cheats&#8221; or other such nonsense. Those shameful attacks change the subject from the undeniable fact that the Constitution reserves the regulation of interstate commerce to the Congress. Without an interstate compact, state attempts at interstate taxation defy the Constitution and are illegal. Beware the compact plans currently coming about though. Demand that they contain safeguards, such as the compact being dissolved immediately, or state accession documents requiring the states to withdraw immediately, in the event of a national sales tax plan, in the style of the Canadian HST. Demand that tax rates be limited. Tell these sponsors that you oppose back-door national sales taxes with the full brunt of income tax left in place. News flash: it&#8217;s not illegal for Google to do something just because you don&#8217;t like it . It annoys me that there are people who want to bring government into this. Bunch of whiners. Use something else if you don&#8217;t like it. Grow up! Bad spectrum regulations harm access to the Internet . Yes, yes they do. I&#8217;m not going to adopt the language of these groups and say it&#8217;s a &#8220;civil rights issue,&#8221; but I agree that we need more competition. And that means less regulation and smaller government, not a runaway Justice and FCC. We need to let firms large and small get the spectrum they need. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Santorum, Bad Economist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ During Monday's Republican debate ( transcript ) in Myrtle Beach, SC, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich offered a bold vision for allowing Americans to voluntarily contribute the "employee portion" of their Social Security payroll taxes into personal investment accounts, while the "employer portion" would continue to be paid into the Social Security Trust Fund -- a fund that only Al "Lockbox" Gore and Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA) think actually holds anything like real money. Gingrich made accurate and important points that such a change would hugely benefit the country: Now, what does it do? It gets the government out of telling you when to retire. It gets the government out of picking winners and losers. You save — it makes every American an investor when they first go to work. They all have a buildup of an estate, which you do not get in the current system. And the estimate by Martin Feldstein at Harvard, who was Reagan's chief counsel and economic advisors, was you actually reduce wealth inequality in America by 50 percent over the next generation because everybody becomes a saver and an investor and you have a universal investing nation. Former Senator Rick Santorum responded: [T]here's nobody for the last 15 years that's been more in favor of personal savings accounts than I have for Social Security. But we were doing that when we had a surplus in Social Security. We are now running a deficit in Social Security. We are now running a huge deficit in this country. Under Congressman Gingrich's proposals, if he's right, that 95 percent of younger workers taken, there will be hundreds of billions of dollars in increased debt, hundreds of billions of more debt being put on the books, which we can't simply — we're going to be borrowing money from China to fund these accounts, which is wrong. I'm for those accounts, but first we have to get our fiscal house in order, balance this budget and then create the opportunity that Newt wants. But the idea of doing that now, is fiscal insanity. Santorum is epitomizing what Frederic Bastiat would have called "a bad economist." In his seminal 1848 essay on the difference between the bad economist, who considers only "that which is seen," and the good economist who "takes into account… those effects that must be foreseen," Bastiat presaged Monday's battle between Santorum, who didn't offer a vision past tomorrow, and Gingrich, who reminded us that whatever his other faults he remains the deepest thinker on the podium: Yet this difference is tremendous; for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. Whence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil. It's true: The United States has a huge budget deficit and debt. Some of that is already due to Social Security because its payout requirements now exceed its income from payroll taxes. It's about to get much worse. According to USA Today , based on the 2011 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Annual Report: Social Security's long-term shortfall grows about $1.2 trillion annually — a sign of an imbalance between the number of young workers and older beneficiaries, according to the Social Security trustees' annual reports. The $21.4 trillion unfunded liability represents the difference between all taxes that will be paid and all benefits received over the lifetimes of everyone in the system now — workers and beneficiaries alike. This is the measure corporations and insurance companies use to assess financial adequacy of their retirement programs. The number differs from the $6.5 trillion, 75-year shortfall that Congress uses to assess Social Security's health. Congress's 75-year figure is smaller because it counts taxes collected from future workers -- those toiling from 2050 to 2085, for example -- but doesn't count the benefits they will get in the 76th year and beyond. In addition, Congress reduces its estimate of Social Security's shortfall by counting the $2.6 trillion in IOUs the government has issued to the program's trust fund. However, the government's audited books, issued by the Treasury Department , don't count that money as having any value to the federal government because it is a debt the government has issued to itself -- like paying off a car loan with a credit card. In other words, if you believe Newt Gingrich's math -- and Santorum didn't challenge it -- that his plan of allowing voluntary personal accounts would make Social Security solvent in the long run, then Santorum is worried about a relatively paltry (by President Obama's spending standards) couple hundred billion dollars of additional annual deficit for some number of years in order to save as much as $20 trillion over the long term. And like all bad economists (including Keynesians and Democrats), Santorum ignored the massively pro-growth aspects of Gingrich's proposal: The multi-trillion dollar increase in privately saved wealth will provide a major adrenalin boost to the American (and world) economy, causing increased employment and GDP growth, translating into higher tax revenues that will offset at least part of the increased deficit that a "static" model would predict. Santorum makes another major mistake, subject to the same criticism some have made of Republican attacks on Romney's Bain Capital: he's using an argument that we would expect from, and that should be left to, Democrats. Democrats are deeply antithetical to anything that would increase the number of Americans who have a financial interest in understanding government regulation, intervention, spending, and taxation. They are, as economist Don Luskin puts it, part of the real political conspiracy, namely the coordinated effort by the left to keep you poor and stupid . Do you think the nation would have tolerated Dodd-Frank if another 10 or 20 or 50 million people of voting age suddenly realized that federal regulation actually impacted them rather than just "the one percent"? How about cap-and-trade, or the out-of-control NLRB, FCC, or EPA? How about Obamacare? No, a nation of investors is a nation without a Democratic majority and don't think Nancy Pelosi and friends don't know it. If Rick Santorum were as much a free-market capitalist as he claims to be, he would, rather than making Obama's arguments for him, be championing Newt's personal Social Security account plan while pressing the Speaker a little harder on details of how to deal with the short-term budget impact of increasing long-term economic liberty and national fiscal solvency. It is a trade manifestly worth making, bad economists notwithstanding. ]]></description>
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