Author: Brett Baber

For conservatives, the need to reduce taxation and curtail government spending are immutable truths. The national debt will surpass $20.5 trillion within the year. That averages out to $62,621 per person in the United States. When you remove those among us who do not pay taxes, the average skyrockets. As Congress contemplates the adoption of a budget and a tax reduction bill, it is imperative that serious debt reduction strategies be considered. According to a key principle of Reaganomics, reduction of tax rates should lead to sustainable economic growth which should, in turn, result in more tax revenues despite the…

As a conservative trial lawyer, one of my favorite parlor games is to ask fellow conservatives: “What is the Seventh Amendment?” Not surprisingly, the vast majority of people, whether conservative, liberal or some other political orientation, cannot name this key provision of the Bill of Rights. The Seventh Amendment provides: “In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”…