Recent Calvert Institute PublicationsReform crime lawsGeorge W. Liebmann 2010-08-29 Let's hear from the state's attorney candidates on peremptory challenges, drug offenses In a little more than two weeks, Baltimore City voters will participate in a seriously contested election for state's attorney.Obama Keynesian Gift Shop George W. Liebmann 2010-08-25 The economists of this administration hold Keynesian beliefs, but their belief is in one-way Keynesianism. The stimulus package has not produced its expected multiplier effects for several reasons, but one of them surely is its superimposition not on a previously balanced budget but upon enormous structural deficits. No credible proposal has been forthcoming for the phasing out of the Bush tax cuts, or some of them, or for a gradually rising gasoline tax, or for military base and naval reductions, or for curbs on unsustainable social security and federal pension programs. New health care entitlements are to be financed by reimbursement curbs which Congress has failed to enact and is known to be incapable of enacting.Schools of thought on looming teacher layoffs G. Liebmann 2010-06-02 White House economic adviser Christina D. Romer tells us ["Keeping teachers in the classroom," op-ed, May 28] that by "preventing layoffs we would save on unemployment insurance payments, food stamps and COBRA subsidies . . . and we would maintain tax revenues."Maryland's 'Race to the Top' Application: Failure Revealed George Liebmann 2010-04-27 The Obama Administration's education reform effort continues Washington’s enthusiasm for intellectually bankrupt 'top-down' reforms. As in foreign policy and policies relating to financial regulation, there is essential continuity between the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. The Obama reform approach essentially abandons any significant effort to alter failed grant in aid programs. The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, with its destructive embrace of restrictions on school discipline, its requirement that large sums be spent on student classification and administrative paper-shuffling, its adherence to now-discredited ‘inclusion’ theories, and its charter for expensive lawsuits is to be maintained. So is the central thrust of the No Child Left Behind law, with its incentives to rote 'teaching to the test' and its encouragement of debasement of state testing standards.Baltimore City Pensions: A Worthy Report George Liebmann 2010-04-27 The recent report of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Task Force on Fire and Police Pensions under the Chairmanship of Donald Fry is a worthy effort, and repeats many of the observations in Calvert's The Baltimore City Retirement Systems: Heading for Trouble report in 2006.Policy Wonk's Guide to the Gubernatorial Election George Liebmann 2010-04-23 To the uninitiated, the choice between two remarkably similar candidates, Govs. O'Malley and Ehrlich, must seem like a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.Now What For Obama? George Liebmann 2010-04-07 Now that President Barack Obama has achieved the long-time goal of the Democratic Party of passing a comprehensive health reform bill, he must ask himself what comes next. He has achieved a great political victory but now comes the difficult part of paying for and administering the now greatly enlarged government responsibility for the nation's welfare. |
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