Monday, February 4, 2008

Column: Hillary's plan for economic ruin

Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down with The New York Times to outline her economic plans if elected president, and we now know the sad, sordid facts - how confused the senator is and how intent she is on ruinous policies.

We should thank her for her honesty after first reviewing some of her points, such as the notion that business is now insufficiently regulated and that government should be exercising more power in the marketplace.

This supposed deficiency of governmental intervention gets no support from a glance at the Federal Register, which includes tens of thousands of pages of new, old and proposed rules. Nor does it help the thesis to note the cost of implementation, $1.1 trillion-annually-, according to the Small Business Administration.

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