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as basis for moral behavior, 85
struggle against big government, 150
individualism, 80–81, 88
“individual mandate,” 268, 315
individual responsibility, 88, 93
individual rights, erosion of, 17
“industrial mutation,” 70
inflation, 206, 213–214, 220, 226, 227
information:
democratization of, 313–314
nature of, 76–77
needed for good government, 56–57, 67
as power, 329–330
information czars, 57–60
information flow:
blogs, 62, 70
democratization of, 64–66
establishment stranglehold on, 58–60
Internet for information sharing, 61–62
from legislators to the people, 67
speed of information dissemination, 69–71
infrastructure, Tea Party marches and, 10
interest groups, 51
interest rates, 211, 216–217
“intergenerational compact,” 297–298
Internal Revenue Code, 178
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 202, 225
Internet:
control of, 60, 62
cyberspace declaration, 318–319, 320
direct-to-consumer video network, 66
disaggregation of information online, 64–66
as medium of information sharing, 61–62
Protect IP Act (PIPA), 320, 321
protest movements and, 76
speed of information dissemination, 69–71
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), 320, 321
“Intolerable Acts,” 15–16
Iowa, tax credits for education, 246
IPAB. see Independent Payment Advisory Board
Irish debt crisis, 225
Issa, Darrell, 13
Italy:
debt crisis, 21, 225
Occupy Wall Street events, 90
Jarrett, Valerie, 159
Jefferson, Thomas, 17, 52, 56, 75, 181, 199, 319, 325
Jeffersonian republicanism, 338
Jenkins, Holman, 165
Jobs, Steve, xii, 103, 250
Johnson, Lyndon B., 50, 209, 279, 305
Johnson, Paul, 337
Johnson, Simon, 219
Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. see “supercommittee”
Jones, Dwight, 11–12
Jones, Van, 69, 78–79, 80, 81–82, 95, 97, 99–102, 330, 331
journalism:
centralization of control and power in, 53–56
citizen journalists, 64
Jowers, Kirk, 133
justice:
Adam Smith on, 85
defined, 12, 80, 92
laws of, 93
Kaiser, George, 160
Kennedy, John F., 189, 195, 279
Kennedy, Ted (Edward), 138, 231, 241–242, 249, 280
Kennedy Caucus Room (U.S. Senate Office Building), 1, 2
Kentucky, Tea Party, 126–127
Kerry, John, 196–197
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, 196
Keynes, John Maynard:
about, 29, 37
aggregate demand, 39–40, 43, 290
Hayek vs. Keynes, 38–39, 40, 42–43, 44–45
on money supply, 212–213
Keynesian economics, 13, 40–42
Kibbe, Sumner, 172
Kids First (healthcare plan), 280
Kiely, Garrett, 39
King, Martin Luther, 90
Klain, Ron, 168
knowledge:
about, 41–42, 76–77, 328
“pretense of knowledge,” 28, 31–37
Kotlikoff, Lawrence, 194
Krugman, Paul, 29, 40–41
Kwak, James, 219
labor, 316
Landrieu, Mary, 267
Lascell, David, 231
laser eye surgery (LASIK), 270
Lavoie, Don, 28
Leahy, Patrick, 320
Lee, Mike, 1, 3, 5, 6, 63, 100, 127, 133, 134–135, 137–139, 321, 344
Lehrman, Lewis E., 229
Lerner, Jon, 120
LeVera, Damien, 161
“liberal,” use of term, 79
Liberal Fascism (Goldberg), 46, 102
liberty, 180
Lieberman, Joe, 267
Liebling, A.J., 55, 56, 71
Lindsey, Brink, 73
lithium-ion batteries, 162
loans and grants, educational, 248
The Logic of Collective Action (Olson), 50–51
“long tail,” 313
“looters and moochers,” 151
Los Angeles, spending on education, 237
Lott, Trent, 134, 327
Louisiana Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence Program, 244
low-sulfur coal, 158
Lucas, Robert, 220
Lugar, Dick, 130
Mack, Connie, 146
Mackey, John, 271–273
“Mack Penny Plan,” 146
macroeconomics, 38, 42, 43
Madison, James, 52, 182, 293, 325
Malcolm X, 90
Malkin, Michelle, 4, 7, 74
Marx, Karl, 29, 115, 203
Mason, Sarah, 92–93, 96, 97, 251
Massachusetts Government Act, 15, 16
Matthews, Merrill, 303
McCain, John, 105
McCarter, Jim, 261
McConnell, Mitch, 126
McGuinness, Paul, 196
McPherson Square, refurbishing of, 13
media:
centralization of control and power in, 53–56, 62, 69
Climategate scandal coverage, 69–70
disaggregation of information online, 64–66
evening news shows, 61
Fairness Doctrine, 58, 59, 62
information czars, 57–60
New Media scooping Old Media, 69
new personality TV networks, 65–66
newspaper circulation, 61
radio/TV station ownership, 58
technology and, 59
Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, 59
Media Research Center, 58, 69
Medicaid, 287
Medicare, 20, 147, 287, 291, 292, 305–307
Medicare Part D, 168–169, 170, 172
Medicare reform, 309
Meltzer, Allan, 221
Mencken, H.L., on T. Roosevelt, 49–50
Menger, Carl, 29, 115, 204, 205
Miller, Joe, 128
Milwaukee’s Parental Choice program, 243–244
Minnesota, tax credits for education, 246
Mises, Ludwig von, 28, 29, 30–31, 200, 204, 205, 207, 216
Mitchell, Dan, 195
monetary policy, 201–229
central banks, 201–202, 209, 212, 218
Federal Reserve, 201, 207, 211–212, 215, 218
financial crisis of 2008, 201–202, 217–218
interest rates, 211, 216–217
money, 202–208
created by Federal Reserve, 207
devaluation, 214
gold standard, 208, 209, 210, 215, 228
see also banks; monetary policy
money supply, 203, 206, 208, 211
Moore, Jonathan, 249
Moore, Michael, 83
moral behavior, 85
moral hazard, 226
Morrissey, Ed, 74
mortgage-backed securities, 34–35
mortgage bailouts, 75
MoveOn.org, 321
Mullen, Mike, 19
Mulvaney, Mick, 121, 122, 143, 144
Murkowski, Lisa, 128, 129
Mussolini, Benito, 154
Napolitano, Andrew, 344
national debt, 19–20, 214
National Education Association (NEA), 238–239
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 260
National Mall (Washington DC), 9
National
Park Service, 13, 88
National Taxpayers Union (for the Right), 321
National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ), 102–103
natural gas, 158, 164
NEA. see National Education Association
Nelson, Ben, 267
Nelson, Bill, 170, 267
net neutrality, 60
Netroots Nation, 78, 80, 81, 95
Nevada, 130
New Deal, 50
New Jersey, spending on education, 237
New Media, 64–65, 69, 71
New Orleans, Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence Program, 244
“new revenue,” use of term, 176
newspaper circulation, 61
Newspaper Revitalization Act, 63
New York (state), spending on education, 237
New York City:
spending on education, 237
teachers’ job performance, 240
New York Times, 61, 62, 70, 74
Next Ronald Reagan, 334–335
NICE. see National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
9/12 Taxpayer March (2009). see Taxpayer March on Washington
“Nirvana fallacy,” 156
Nixon, Richard, 209–210
No Child Left Behind, 242, 243
Nolte, John, 89
North Carolina, Woolworth sit-in, 91
Obama, Barack:
“czars,” 26, 47
on “death panels” under Obamacare, 255–256
on economics, 36–37
on education, 245
on financial reform, 33–34
on government, 149
on healthcare, 255–256, 258
on individualism, 80–81
on knowing better, 31, 33
on newspaper rescue legislation, 63–64
on Occupy Wall Street, 98
race card, 125
reelection of, 98–99
on Ronald Reagan, 335
on “socialist” lineage, 79
on TARP, 105–106
Obama administration:
August 2009 townhall meetings on healthcare, 68–69
budget blueprint, 23
deficit stimulus spending of, 43–44
energy policy, 158
financial crisis of 2008, 201–202, 217–218
fiscal leadership, 23–24, 43–44
on green energy, 31–33, 158
on “green jobs,” 31–32, 69, 78, 160, 162
high-speed rail, 173–174
Keynesian economics, 39
monetary policy, 210
smallpox vaccines, 171
Solyndra affair, 31, 32, 78, 156, 158, 159–162
stimulus legislation, 112
stimulus spending, 43–44
TARP, 67–68, 84, 98, 105–107, 154
top-down structures, 315
Obamacare:
constitutionality of, 268
“death panels,” 255–256
funding for, 308
Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), 262–263, 309
“individual mandate,” 268, 315
Mackey on, 273
passage, 68–69, 111–112, 116, 168, 267
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), 262–263
penalty, 295
powers and agencies, 266
repeal and replacement, 131, 132, 147, 282
Obamanomics (Carney), 174
Occupy Cal, 253–254
Occupy Oakland, 11, 90
Occupy Wall Street:
about, 155, 156
anti-Semitism within, 97
arrests, 89
assembly gatherings, 94–95
author on, 83–84
Biden on, 98
central organizing principle, 93–94
cost of trampled turf, 13–14
cost to taxpayers for, 11
events in Europe, 90
Internet tools to galvanize, 76
Van Jones on, 83, 99
One-Percenters, 14, 83
Pelosi on, 14, 15
policy goals, 91
property damaged by protestors, 88–91
sanitation at, 88
sense of purpose, 91
sense of responsibility, 93
O’Donnell, Frank, 167
O’Driscoll, Gerald, 154, 221
oil, 158, 164
Olson, Mancur, 50–51
“One Cent Solution,” 146
One-Percenters, 14, 83
opportunity cost, 43
Organizing for America (OFA), 87, 323
Organizing for Obama (OFO), 87, 324
O’Rourke, P.J., 42
out-of-control spending, 17
overnight camping laws, 13
Owens, Colleen, 12
OWN (TV network), 66
Paine, Thomas, 73
paper money systems, 209
Papola, John, 38
Parkin, Shaun, 5
partisanship, 106
Pastorek, Paul, 244
patient-centered care, 280–283
Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), 262–263
Paul, Rand, 126–127, 137, 143, 309, 321, 338
Paul, Ron, 126, 200, 201, 227, 228, 274–276, 321
Paulson, Henry, 217, 219, 224, 225
payroll taxes, 188
Pell Grants, 248
Pelosi, Nancy, 9, 14, 15, 67–68, 106, 107, 112, 116, 266
Pennsylvania:
natural gas exploration, 165
spending on education, 237
tax credits for education, 246
Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit, 246
pensions:
public pension system, 301–302
see also Social Security
Perelman, Ronald O., 171
personal responsibility, 88, 93
petroleum, 158
pharmaceutical and health products industry, 168–171
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), 168, 169, 170
PIGS European countries, national debt, 21
PIPA. see Protect IP Act
PISA. see Program for International Student Assessment
planning:
assumptions and, 43–44
knowledge problem, 29–31
political pretense and, 31–37
Plouffe, David, 324, 325
“point of no return,” debt default, 22
Polanyi, Michael, 77
policymaking, Tea Party and, 113
political change, 113
political power, concentrated, 91
portable restrooms, Tea Party marches and, 10, 88
Portuguese debt crisis, 21, 225
Powell, Lewis, 231
power, centralized, 51, 52, 62
precious metals, as money, 205–206
prescription drug reimportation, 169–170
“pretense of knowledge,” 28, 31–37
Price, Richard, 75
Price, Tom, 71
profits tax, 188
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 233
Progressive Era, 212, 288
Progressive movement, 48–49, 52, 79
Progressive Party, 279
“progressives,” use of term, 79–80
property damage, from Occupy Wall Street, 89
Protect IP Act (PIPA), 320, 321
protest movements, Internet tools and, 76
protests, 113, 326–327, 339–340
public demonstrations:
overnight camping laws, 13
sanitation during, 10–11
see also protests
public education, 232
“public interest” rationale, 62
public spaces, damage to public demonstrations and, 13
QE1 and QE2, 218, 219
Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY), 259–260
“quantitative easing,” use of term, 176, 218, 219
radio, 59, 63
Radio Act of 192
7, 58
radio/TV station ownership, 58
Rago, Joseph, 35
Raines, Franklin, 155
rallies, 113
Rand, Ayn, 95, 96, 148, 151, 159
“The Rant Heard ‘Round the World,” 75, 208
Raser Technologies, 163
Rattner, Steve, 39
“read my lips” tax hike, 190
Reagan, Michael, 173
Reagan, Ronald, 172, 231, 241, 280, 310, 311, 315, 334
Reagan administration, 58, 190
Reagan Revolution, 189
Rebuild the Dream, 100
redistribution of wealth, 80, 83, 92, 95, 151
RedState, 74
“regression theorem,” 204
Reich, Robert, 253–254, 256–257, 284
Reid, Harry, 22, 23, 68, 106, 112, 144, 267
relative prices, 44
rent-seeking, 50, 153, 166, 168, 170–171
Republicans, xiii, 36, 107, 108, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 126, 129, 130, 134, 148, 241, 327
Republicans in Name Only (RINOs), 116
Republican Study Committee (RSC), 143
respect for property, 88
retirement:
defined-contribution programs, 301
Galveston model, 303
personal retirement accounts, 302–303
see also Social Security
Revenue Act of 1861, 184
Revolution of 1937 (Supreme Court), 294–295
Rhode Island, tax credits for education, 246
Richmond (VA) Tea Party, 11–12
RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), 116
Rivalry and Central Planning (Lavoie), 28
Rizzo, Mario, 44
Roadmap for America’s Future, 142–143
Road to Serfdom (Hayek), 38–39
Roberts, Russ, 38
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 316
Rogers, Jim, 165, 166
Romney, Mitt, 35–36, 334
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 48, 50, 102, 188, 208, 209, 215, 279, 292–294, 295
Roosevelt, Theodore, 49, 79, 279
Rosko, Lynn, 10
Rothwell, Jonathan, 33
“rubber rooms,” 240
Rubio, Marco, 128, 137
“rugged individualism,” Obama on, 81
“Rule for Radicals,” 81
Russell Senate Office Building, ejection of Tea Party Debt Committee, 1–7, 24, 25
Ryan, Paul, 140, 142, 144
Salazar, Ken, 13
Sanchez, Julian, 320
Sanders, Bernie, 228
sanitation, during protests, 10, 11
Santelli, Rick, 75, 76, 208
Santorum, Rick, 117
Schambra, William, 37
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. (1935), 374n15
Schieffer, Bob, 86
Schiff, Peter, 216–217
S-CHIP, 138, 280
Schlichter, Detlev, 209
schools:
violence in, 234, 235
see also education; teachers
school vouchers, 243–245
Schumer, Charles, 3, 4, 7, 62–63
Schumpeter, Joseph, 70
Schweizer, Peter, 161
scientism, 48
Scott, Tim, 124, 125, 132
Sebelius, Kathleen, 316
“seen and unseen,” 44–45, 83