Another Attack on Family Farms

I’ve discussed the dairy cartel in past blogs, but the Albuquerque Journal ran an excellent opinion piece from a farmer and critic of the House-passed farm bill now moving through Congress. This legislation, as the author points out, would continue Congress’s tradition of hurting family farms while professing to help them. That is nothing new [...]

Debunking Portland

Despite the tax to support it having been repealed by Albuquerque’s City Council, the Mayor’s trolley plans refuse to die and it is widely expected that he will bring the issue up in the not-too-distant future.
Of course, followers of the issue know very well that supporters of the propsed system believe that Portland is a [...]

No Reason for World Bank

While the World Bank and opposition to its existence has long been a favored cause of the whacky left, ironically, this is one issue on which right and left can work together if not agree. As George Will points out, the Paul Wolfowitz scandal has drawn attention to the Bank, but what really needs to [...]

Film Subsidies and Economic Development

With all of the controversy surrounding possible shady business involving the New Mexico film industry and our tax dollars, it might be easy to forget that providing these subsidies in the first place is dubious economic policy.
Apparently, California is now discussing subsidies for the film industry to keep up with states like New Mexico. As [...]

Rail Transit is Expensive Everywhere

I attended Mayor Chavez’s budget meeting (schedule available at link) at Taylor Ranch Community Center on Saturday to voice support for the tax cut proposal and opposition to the Mayor’s streetcar plans that he refuses to let die. While taxes and police were discussed, by far the hottest topic was transportation.
Interestingly enough, transportation and more [...]

Minimum Wage Passes US Senate

This just in: the US Senate has voted to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour. The only kicker is that the Senate version, unlike the House version, contains some tax breaks and other benefits for small businesses and others that will be disproportionately (and negatively) impacted by the higher mandated wage.
Assuming that this [...]

The Shop Around the Corner

I wonder how often this sort of thing happens in New Mexico. On second thought, the minimum wage issue is a perfect example of how the left professes to care about the “little guy,” but really doesn’t. Wal Mart can easily factor the cost of an increase in the minimum wage into its bottom line, [...]

Taxpayer Rip-off in New Orleans

As much as one doesn’t want to pick on the citizens of the Gulf Coast region, one might think that taxpayers and residents of the area would agree that we don’t want something like Katrina to ever happen again. Unfortunately, it looks like that is what federal taxpayers are in the midst of paying for [...]

A Sweet Deal only Found in Government

What a concept! Take a government monopoly — in this case I’m talking about America’s taxpayer-funded national passenger railroad known as Amtrak — and allocate a portion of the money appropriated to you by Congress every year to fund a group to lobby for more funds for you. These practices are not entirely uncommon in [...]

Democrat “Leadership”

If you are in need a thin smear of rhetorical mush today, then look here.

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