The February 2012 issue of The American Conservative includes several pieces that reflect, directly or indirectly, on the presidential campaign currently underway in the USA, and a couple that have a broader interest. The American Conservative started in 2002 as a forum for right-wingers who did not want the US to invade Iraq. It continues [...]
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Will visits to the doctor go the way of visits from the doctor?
In the last few days, television audiences in the USA have been hearing a great deal about IBM’s “Watson” computer system. The occasion of this publicity is Watson’s appearance as a contestant on the popular quiz show Jeopardy. IBM has emphasized Watson’s potential in the medical field: Throughout this material, IBM’s spokespeople keep inviting us [...]
Posted by acilius on February 16, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/02/16/will-visits-to-the-doctor-go-the-way-of-visits-from-the-doctor/
Border Adjusted Value Added Tax
Former US Senator Ernest Hollings wants the United States to replace its corporate income tax with a border adjusted value added tax. He writes that he wants to see “the President and the Congress beginning to solve the deficit, debt, jobs, economy, and health cost problems by replacing the corporate tax with a 5% VAT- NOW!” He may [...]
Posted by acilius on May 24, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/05/24/border-adjusted-value-added-tax/
The American Conservative, April 2010
My favorite read from the antiwar Right has undergone quite a few changes since it began in 2002. Founding editors Pat Buchanan and Taki Theodoracopulos are long gone from The American Conservative, and the hard line those men have taken against immigration from poor countries to rich ones is no longer the magazine’s editorial policy. Last year, the magazine [...]
Posted by acilius on March 16, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/03/16/the-american-conservative-april-2010/
Should the USA adopt a value-added tax?
Most countries in the world collect a border-adjusted value added tax; the USA does not. In this document, posted on his blog, former US Senator Ernest F Hollings succinctly points out a problem this creates for American manufacturers: Our tax laws force off-shoring. You can manufacture a computer in Chicago, which requires an average corporate income tax of [...]
Posted by acilius on December 12, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/12/12/should-the-usa-adopt-a-value-added-tax/
The American Conservative, November 2009
In this issue, former FBI employee Sibel Edmonds names some prominent US officials whom she believes to have accepted bribes from foreign governments. Eve Tushnet visits a Washington, DC locale known to the federal government as Meridian Hill Park, though she has “only seen its maiden name in two places: District government plaques and local girl Florence [...]
Posted by acilius on September 24, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/24/the-american-conservative-november-2009/
Looking back, and further back
The June and July issues of Chronicles, the rightwardmost of my regular reads, include a couple of pieces that seem to acknowledge that the basis of conservatism is nostalgia. That isn’t so bad, I suppose; everyone feels nostalgia, and people who are nostalgic for the same things can share a bond, and can sometimes nurture [...]
Posted by acilius on June 25, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/25/looking-back-and-further-back/
The Nation, 20 April 2009
Businessman Leo Hindery and former US Senator Donald Riegle write a proposal for “The Jobs Solution” to our country’s current economic woes. Point 3 reads: Concrete efforts to restore the essential tax-policy link between productivity growth and wage gains, which will almost surely mean adopting a value-added tax of the sort nearly every other developed [...]
Posted by acilius on April 3, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/03/the-nation-20-april-2009/
Chronicles, April 2009
George McCartney’s review of the movie The Reader begins with a description of a comedy sketch in which Kate Winslet said that making a movie about the Holocaust is a sure way to win an Oscar. That part starts at 3:13 in the clip below. McCartney argues that the movie misses the moral point of [...]
Posted by acilius on April 3, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/03/chronicles-april-2009/
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