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What Free Market?

by Michael Fiala April 21, 2010 National Issues
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It’s long been my opinion that we haven’t been doing business as individuals or corporations under anything resembling a free market system since sometime before Woodrow Wilson.
But what is free market capitalism?
Free market capitalism is basically a system of economics that minimizes government intervention and maximizes the role of the market. Free markets (if left [...]

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Game On!

by Michael Fiala April 13, 2010 Local Issues
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Breitbart has an AP story on attempts by liberals to infiltrate and disrupt Tea Party gatherings this Thursday in an attempt to discredit the participants and ruin their image with “average Americans”.
I say, “Bring it on!”.
My advice to Tea Partiers is: Stay on your game and stay on message.
Marginalize and negate the kooks and nuts [...]

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The Government Option: Success Through Diminished Competition

by Travis Sedars April 1, 2010 National Issues
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How would you feel if you were driving a foreign car in the United States and suddenly discovered General Motors had been handed the ability to enforce regulations against your automotive brand of choice in an effort to influence you to buy their product?
If you’re like most people (since the days preceding the original Boston [...]

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Kill Iowa HSB 702

by fbadams February 23, 2010 State Issues
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The media report HSB 702 is moving forward in this Iowa legislative session.
Like other ill-conceived legislation coming from this body where current economic considerations apparently fail to impel lawmakers to drastically cut spending, this bill will add insult to injury to Iowa’s employment climate.
Big Labor has no interest in amending the situation by reasonable means, [...]

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Iowa: Create Jobs? Reduce Taxes? Balance the Budget? ……… Then Repeal Chapter 20 of the Iowa Code

by fbadams February 18, 2010 State Issues

On December 16, 2009, Michael Fiala blogged on this site concerning Iowa’s abysmal ranking as the nation’s 46th worst tax climate for the creation of jobs. This article dovetails with that idea except that it concerns Iowa’s top ranking in the nation as the most liberal for pay and benefits for our state employees.
In a [...]

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Is It Time?

by fbadams February 9, 2010 National Issues

The Common Sense Politics Blog welcomes FB Adams as our newest contributor this week. Take it away, FB!
I haven’t written much lately as I have been doing a lot of reading, attending to business and trying to work on a book.
But I do keep reading and paying attention to current events in Des Moines [...]

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Dems Wrong on Economy – Again!

by Michael Fiala February 3, 2010 National Issues

The Democrats just can’t seem to get the economy right. But we can’t say we weren’t warned.
After President Obama’s incorrect assertion that “… Capitalism doesn’t work …” in his first State of the Union and the Democrats full-bore attack on Capitalism and the people that produce wealth in this country over the last year, it’s [...]

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