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the koch brothers started the cato institute, part of the founders, and they've had two seats on the board but the question is they want to take it over so that they can be the intellectual leaders of what will eventually end up being grassroots organizations. you know, you fund the whole thing. so, what is the role and i'll ask you, cassandra, of think thanks in political organizations? i'll just keep it broad like that. >> that was nice. >> we'll get to it in a minute. i've got to warm you up. >> i think for me, the theme of the night is clarity and transparency. my view is that political action, if it's -- no matter whatever it's disguised should be transparent. where it's funded should be transparent, who's behind it should be transparent. one of the reasons voters are so cynical about the process is often we try to shield these things. i guess my view is on the one hand, i want to be sure that if they're involved, if there's money involved, i always want to know that. i think opinion leaders probably pay attention to who's behind think tanks and think tank solutions. my opinion

the cato institute when it started, coke others. e of you may know that the cato when it's done independently in the coat others are now suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled coat brothers operation. americans for prosperity is the most active political organization today, all funded by the co-brothers. freda marks, dick armey's organization. john kasich of ohio, coke brothers brought stock. same with scott walker in wisconsin. everywhere in california couple years ago there is a measure prop 23 in the ballot to repeal the new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger that measure to repeal those standards, which last totally funded by the coat weathersbee legislation west virginia to overturn the new mining safety rules put in place after that last mining disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations funded by the coat or theirs. i have in the book of peach with 53 different organizations. a lot of them by the way a research centers on college campuses around the country at all for

jagadeesh gokhale is a senior fellow here at the cato institute, and he is recognized internationally as an expert on entitlement reform, labor productivity, and composition, u.s. fiscal policy, and the impact of fiscal policy on future generations. he served in 2002 as a consultant to the u.s. department of the treasury, and in 2003 as a visiting scholar of the american enterprise institute. he was a senior economist advisor to the federal reserve bank of cleveland from 1990 to 2003. he holds a ph.d in economics from boston university and is currently a member of the social security advisory board. he has published voluminously in leading academic journals of economics. his most recent book, which is available outside, he'd be glad to sign it for you if you care to purchase a copy was -- is entitled "social security, a fresh look at policy alternatives" which was published by cato in conjunction with the university of chicago press in 2010. please welcome jagadeesh gokhale. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, roger, for inviting me to be part of this inaugural event at the cato inst

that is the topic of this afternoon's panel here at the cato institute. in today's talk, i am not going to talk at all about the anti-injunction act. some of you will be relieved to hear that. i won't talk about severab severableability or the medicaid challenge. i'm going to lay out why it is at a fundamental level the individual insurance mandate is unconstitutional. as you can well imagine, this is a very technical issue involving a lot of precedents, the reasoning of a lot of cases, a lot of technical text, and that's not something that can be effectively presented orally in what i probably have is about eight more minutes. so what i'm going to do instead is basically give you what i consider to be the four most salient reasons why this lawsuit, contrary to the opinions of the experts, this lawsuit did have legs and this lawsuit is serious, and this lawsuit is going to be a very difficult one, not an easy one for the supreme court to decide. and i'm going to make four points that will involve four words. they'll organize around four words. the first w

the other side of the story jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute. so the guns and i are the pentagon love spending your tax dollars are in bed with nine told time award and also stick around for happy hour for a porter is outed by a competitor for being. plus reports a dominic strauss kahn that loves luggage i'll explain in just a. story and it seems so easy to understand it and then you know here's the part of it and realize that everything. i'm charging is a big. mystery . left in the lower so you'll get the real headlines with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters for those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it and we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . is the state english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. time now for tonight's

the other side of the story jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute it. still comes in i have the pentagon's love of spending your tax dollars earned them nights told time award and also stick around for happy hour reporter is outed by a competitor for being a surfer plus reports a dominic strauss kahn that loves luggage i'll explain in just a moment. the official we can join the one called touch from the dumpster. lights on the good. video on demand. smiling. omissions for you now with the palm of your. machine on the call. real. real. real. real. real. cold real world video for your media drug deal gone to argy dot com. it's. time now for tonight's told time award and this time it's going to the pentagon we've discussed the after thirty five program on the show it's time and time again you know the most expensive defense program ever the one that's been riddled with problems and the lazy the jets have been grounded for everything from valve issues to parachute problems in the past few months and let's not forget to mention that the persistently faulty

welcome to the cato institute. i name is christopher preble, the vice president for foreign policy studies here at cato and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the new auditorium. into the newly redesigned cato institute. so welcome. we are very fortunate to have for this conference, a terrific lineup. it is my privilege to be about to introduce them. i went to think before i forget the plowshares fund for their support this project and really congratulate and thank my colleagues, justin logan who is responsible for organizing that. i think many of you in the audience at the bios, but for those of you watching online, for your benefit -- on c-span. i quickly want to introduce the four pls who will be speaking in the order they will speak and then i'll get out of the way and let them get started. our first day will be michael albert, public policy scholar at those johnstone crescent cover the operating in burma in 1980 and reconstruction of kuwait after the first school for her. and the german capital from berl

welcome to the cato institute. my name is christopher preble, i'm the vice president for defense and foreign policies here at cato. i as -- it's been my great pleasure to welcome you to the new auditorium, and to the newly redesigned cato institute. so welcome. and we are very fortunate to have for this conference a terrific lineup, to panel. it's my privilege to be able to introduce them. i do want to thank before i forget the fund for their support of this project. and really congratulate, thank my colleague justin logan who's responsible for for organizing it. i think many of you here in the audience how the bios, but for those of you are watching online, for your benefit -- what's that? or on c-span, right. i which is quickly want to introduce the four panelists who will be speaking in the order they will speak, and then i will get out of the way and let them get started. our first speaker today will be michael adler, public policy scholar at woodrow wilson center. as a reporter for the press he covered the upr

from the cato institute in washington, this is three hours. [inaudible conversations] >> we're good. all right. thank you very much. welcome to the cato institute. a name is christopher preble. and the vice president for foreign policy studies here at cato and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the new hayek auditorium into the newly redesigned cato institute. so welcome. we are very fortunate to have for this conference a terrific lineup. two panels. it is my privilege to be able to introduce them. i do want to thank the support for this project and really congratulate and thank mcauley, justin logan who is responsible for organizing it. i think many of you here in the audience of the bias, but for those of you watching online for your benefit -- what's that? or an c-span, they can migrate quickly went to introduce the four panelists speaking in the order they will speak and then i would get out of the way and let them get started. our first speaker will be michael adler and reporter for john thrasher press covered the uprising in burm

that is the topic of this afternoon's panel at the cato institute. in today's talk i am not going to talk about the anti obstruction act. you will be relieved to hear that. i will not talk about several ability of there's time for questions. i will not talk about the medicaid challenge. i will simply lay out why it is at the fundamental level the individual insurance mandate requires every person in the united states to purchase private health insurance is unconstitutional. as you can well imagine this is a very technical issue involving a lot of precedents and a lot of cases, a lot of text and that is not something that can be effectively presented orally. what i have is eight more minutes. one of will do is basically give you what i consider to be the four most salient reasons why this lawsuit contrary to the opinions of the experts, this lawsuit did have legs and this lawsuit is serious and this lawsuit is going to be a very difficult one. not an easy one for the supreme court to decide. i will make four points that will involve four words. won th

and there hadn't been a whole lot of analysis, however, of the heritage foundation, and the cato instituteoposals for fixing the problem. but to my great surprise, "the washington post" blogger, jennifer reuben write this week, speaking of the paul ryan medicare reform plan, no matter how many times, liberals repeat that ryan's reform plan, it isn't true and the misrepresentation is so egregious that one can only conclude that it's the honest analysis of the plan. >> and here is what nancy pelosi had to say about the health care law, listen. >> we knew what we were doing when we passed this bill, it is iron clad constitutionally. what happens in the courts is another matter. but, we believe that we're in pretty good shape going into the court. >> who wants to explain what she means by that. >> gregg: she herself said we'll have to pass the vote, but let me make a point. there's a legal argument and financial argument which is are well patched out here and medical argument, ignored except for a few people like me, writing for the manhattan institute medical progress. and the number by the f

richard rahn is a senior fellow at the cato institute and chairman of the institute of economic growthal economic growth. he also writes a syndicated weekly economic column which is published in "the washington times," news max and many other places. he serves on the editorial board of the cayman financial review and on the governor of virginia's joint advisory board of economics. dr. rahn served for two terms as the first non-caymanian member of the board of directors of the cayman islands monetary authority which regulates the world's largest offshore financial center. in the 1980s, dr. rahn served as vice president and chief economist of the chamber of commerce of the united states and as editor in chief of the journal of economic growth. previously, he was executive director of the american council for capital formation. in 1982, president reagan appointed dr. rahn as a member of the social security advisory council during 1988, during the presidential campaign of that year, he served as an economicv. bush. in 1990, dr. rahn founded the novacon companies which includeded sterling d

he's the author of two books both published by the cato institute. corner stone of liberty, property rights in the 21st century. and the right to earn a living, economic freedom and the law as well as some 40 scholarly articles on suck jekts ranging from eminent domain and legal issues of vaifry and the civil war. i understand he's joust got an article on shakespeare. he is truly a renaissance man. and unbelievably prolific for someone so young. he's a graduate of hillsdale college and he is also a graduate of the chapman university school of law and he's an adjunct professor of law at the mcgeorge school of law in sacramento. please welcome tim sandford. [ applause ] >> as you know most of the attention on the obama care is on the constitutionality. if congress can force people to buy insurance under the commerce clause, what can it not do? that would in theory expand federal power to the point it could do anything it wants. a very similar issue is presented when we talk about the medicaid expansion. that is done under different clause of the consti

trevor burress from the cato institute. my question quick for mr. lazarus, is there such a thing as a coercion doctrine? >> that's a good question. what the questioner is referring to is the fact that the reference to coercion that has been made in the case law has been made in two cases, as tim indicated. the butler case in 1936 and the south dakota v. dole case in 1987. neither of these cases actually held that there is a doctrine of coercion. they refer to the possibility that a conditional grant might be made under terms that went from compulsion to coercion, but they didn't say anything about exactly what it meant. a number of courts of appeal have concluded that it doesn't really exist as a doctrine. no court has ever actually applied it to hold that a traditional grant was unconstitutional. so one thing that these cases will decide is whether the doctrine actually exists as law or not and that in and of itself will be very important. the justice department is arguing that it actually doesn't or shouldn't. there's a good argument for that posi

then timl lynch of the cato institute debate the merit of hate crime laws. and then the report on the loan guarantee program. ahead of secretary chu's testimony about the program and lopes to the now bankrupt solyndra. we'll hear from frank rest coe. 7:00 a.m. every morning on c-span. >>> one year ago the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan melted down an after earthquake and tsunami hit japan. you can see the hearing live thursday here on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m. >>> the center for responsive politics reports super pacs have raised $130 million this election cycle. mitt romney has raised the most money followed by american crossroads. further down the list are those backing newt gingrich and president obama. the common cause today hosted a discussion on theol. >>> good morning. everyone ready? good morning, my name is bill deblasio, i'm the new york city advocate, and also a member of the new york city retirement system boards. $40 billion pension fund and i'm wearing a green tie. why? in honor of st. patrick's day and as a statement on the corrosive impac

he is an economist with the cato institute. this was part of the rockies annual retreat in colorado springs. it is just under an hour. >> are we ready to go? let me dive right in and get our first speaker started. richard rahn is a senior fellow at the cato institute. he also writes a syndicated weekly economic column which is published in the washington times and many other places. also writes a syndicated weekly economic column which is published in the washington times and many other places. he serves on the editorial board at the cayman financial review and on the governor of virginia is a joint advisory board of economics. he served two terms as the first member of the board of directors of the cayman islands not from the cayman islands, which regulates the worlds of largest offshore financial center. in the 1980's, served as vice president and chief economist of the chamber of commerce of the united states and as editor in chief of the journal of economic growth. previously, he was the executive director of the american c

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brother funded right wing think tanks like the american legislative exchange council and the cato institute you oil barons are getting more and more preferential treatment in the united states all the while gas prices continue to climb americans get sicker and sicker and ecosystems are ruined for future generations so let's take the politics out of this debate republicans can point their finger the president all they want but what they are ignoring is the bigger picture there we are now still reliant on the nineteenth century energy strategy of fossil fuels all the rest of the moral world is moving out of the twenty first century strategy of renewable energies and we're stuck because we've got oil barons by our elected lawmakers and sabotage any efforts to end our addiction to dirty postle fuels these people are hell bent on sucking out the last trillion dollars of oil from the ground embedded in rocks fracking and out of the deep underground underground deep under water no matter where what they do no matter what damage it does to our nation they want. price of oil is going up today becaus

something to do with it so here that's got this with me is innocent foreign policy analyst at the cato institute who thanks so much for coming on the show tonight absolut thank you let's start we're going to get into just really quickly i want to start with the budget because we heard a lot from secretary defense leon panetta over the summer right right after this debt deal was struck we heard about the trigger mechanism he called it a doomsday it is. another kind of seemed to calm down and now they're dealing with the cuts that are coming in stride not the trigger effect yet and then we heard general martin dempsey who for the most part is somebody that i've actually respected lately in his statements because i feel like he's been calling for some cong this eventually with the situation with iran and then he said that if we were to suffer another round of defense cuts of this size we would stop to be a leading world power i think a little overkill wouldn't you well i think these are the problems with bureaucracies that you have in general in general they always want more money more researchers

the cato institute actually has the top ten instances.nt has thumbed his nose at the constitution. and so there is a suspicion. jay. >> i think the biggest problem here is context. it isn't a document dump in the sense it comes late on a friday evening. that's an interesting situation. second is the context of the other situations you talk about. the attorney general, the fast and four russ general and then the attorney general said he was concerned about what the nypd was doing which was clearly within the law and the department of justice has backed off on that, wisely. but you look at the context. and then the definitional aspect. the definition is the problem. i don't believe, and i agree the president can get away with this because, number one, you have a congress, you have an active media, that's why we are here tonight. but you have to ask yourself why this overly broad definition of national defense? why incorporate the stafford act, which talks about foreign and national interests and tsunamis and situations which the president w

crude oil as both the wall street journal and cato institute have said the price is not set by the president. >> it is not energy independence right away it's the wall street speculators and why can't the democrats get on board and say it's wall street speculation? surveys have shown there is what, almost 58 cents per gallon cast on to the price of gas at the pump because of the speculators? if the people in alabama and mississippi can't figure out what faith the president is, how in the heck are they going to understand wall street speculators, you have a heavy lift, don't you? >> certainly that is an issue. as you know the attorney general has a task force that has been looking at market manipulation, looking at oil speculation, but the truth is that look, we're producing more oil and gas in this country than has been produced in the past eight years. oil imports are down, we have to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. there is no easy answer to this crisis. demand is up in china, demand is up in india, and what iran is doing and volatility in the middle east is contributing. >> brad woo

patton who is a big week at the cato institute and a giant in the free-market movement. d president of the institute has been just a pass since 1984. >> you also published book and i want to ask you about a couple. let's begin with this in my herber walberg, school choice the finest. >> one of the issues the heartland institute's push for decades now is the idea of having many faulty parents and having would not have been student achievement does rise. and so, herber walberg, whenever senior fellows is very interested in this topic and is very knowledgeable. he's also a fellow at the hoover dictation and has written two books on school choice we can get the public and politicians the fact about why and how school choice works for parents and for students. >> the other book he has written about discarded fancying student achievement. and this -- where does this one go? >> guest: this book is the title would suggest goes beyond just the school choice can do and a general sense to raise achievement and talk some more detail about how the structures you need in place to make

to listen just yesterday i was arguing with dan mitchell from the cato institute about this. tell it, all of europe is a giant slave if you live in europe because you pay high taxes and all because of the vat. you know, i've been to europe. germany doesn't look like a slave camp to me. it's just gross exaggerations really that fuels a lot of this and just fear of the unknown, but it could clean up so many of our problems on the tax code. we could get about $50 billion per percentage point if you did it just as a tax reform. you could use that money to fix an enormous number of problems in our tax code and get us on to a better track. >> how do you get the republican party -- i mean, you come from it. you work for republican presidents. right now we are taxing at about 16%. we're spending at about 24% of gdp. it's not just tax reform. you're going to have to raise more revenue. it seems that every republican candidate on these primary debates said that they wouldn't raise a dollar of new re news. -- revenues. >> well, i think that, you know, they go around telling people, well

that is at the cato institute and that is live at 1045 eastern. in a few moments, the headlines and calls all live on "washington journal." at 10:00 a.m., live coverage of the heritage foundation discussion on the administration's decision not to fund the training program designed to arm airline flight crew members. in 45 minutes, we examine the gop budget proposal with tom cole. then,

and a coke brothers are suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled operation.-- americans for prosperity -- and dick armey's organization, john k. sick in ohio, co carothers candidate, same with scott walker. and a measure, prop 23 on the ballot to repeal the new clean car standards put in by arnold schwarzenegger that measured to repeal those standards which lost prop 23. totally funded by the cote brothers. legislation in west virginia to overturn the new mining safety rules put in place after the last mine disaster. the effort to overturn mining safety regulations funded by the cote brothers. with 53 different organizations. a lot of them research centers on college campuseses all for the purpose of disputing the existence of global warming and fighting to do away with any government regulations that had anything to do with climate control. i was able to find either partially or totally funded by the coke brothers. their reach is so great that someone called them the coketo u coketop coketopus. they get together twice a year, and raise money for right wing p

that is the completely intellectually coherent position my friends at the cato institute, a libertarian think tank in washington, are fiercely pro-choice, pro gay marriage and anti health care mandate. they want to restrict the government from making as by health care or telling us we can mario will begin do with the bodies. justice kennedy is the only justice on the supreme court who has some sympathy for those views. do i expect you would cited to strike down the mandate, no. he would not go that far. as with the other conservatives, scalia and collegial and roberts, this is bound to make their heads bowed to refer them it is the root of all constitutional evil. who says it must, the case involving economic freedom of contract. robert bork. it won't have any of it. that's why we're talking about other subjects. i've gotten out of the prediction business when it comes to this. but given the fact that scalia, roberts, and alito have embraced a rather broad vision of congress' power allowing the federal government, for example, to overturn medical marijuana laws, i was surprised when two

and dan mitch sell a senior fellow at the cato institute and previously served as an economist for the senate finance committee. guest, thank you all for being here. the federal government loses or foregoes collecting more than a trillion dollars a area by offering 250 different deals that lower tax payments. excluding employer contributions for health care, not taxing medicare benefits, the child tax credit, excluding contributions to retirement plans. if we got rid of all of these would we end up with a fairer system? >> get the government out of the business of picking winners and losers, industrial policy, gets rid of the loopholes that we all agree are leap hole, bring the rate down, you will have a more efficient tax system, less corrupt, less complex, a win-win situation. >> are you right f we could wipe the slate clean it would be enormous dislocation to many people, and understand homeowners across the nation, who have a mortgage who deduct that interest and therefore don't have to pay tax on a fair bit of their income what sudden leigh say wait a minute, i have more taxable i