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Entitlements: To encourage retirement savings, Hillary Clinton drops her baby bond idea in favor of an income-redistribution scheme to encourage retirement savings. So what was wrong with Personal Savings Accounts? Suddenly gone is the senator's plan to give every newborn a $5,000 bond, which seemed to us a very expensive vote-buying scheme akin to George McGovern's 1972 plan to give everybody a $1,000 check. Her new idea du jour is to give people a tax cut up to $1,000 a year to encourage working-class families to open personal 401(k) savings accounts. Clinton calls her plan "American Retirement Accounts." The government...

  Meaning of the Word 'Is' ― Redux October 4, 2007  Just when you thought the “forever campaign season” couldn’t possibly get any more Bozoish...along comes Hillary with perpetuity baskets full of $5000 Baby Bonds.  Leave it to a Clinton to hand out prizes for procreation.  While addressing a Congressional Black Caucus forum last week, Hillary proposed giving every newborn a $5,000 bond (in classic Clinton style, you’re doing the giving and she’s reaping the rewards).  In Clinton’s own words, “I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time.  When...

During a recent campaign appearance, Hillary Clinton proposed the idea that each and every baby born within the United States be given a $5,000 baby bond in order to help pay for college or pay for a new house. The problems with this idea are too many and too obvious to mention here, but glaring difficulties have never stopped Democrats (or even politicians in general) before. In fact, one could argue that common sense and lack of patronage funds are a greater obstacle to politicians than anything else...but I digress. The question is (to use the Latin), “Qui bono?” That...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18, if they have finished high school, they will be able to access it to...

Fresh off of pushing for an expansion of S-CHIP into the middle class and adding tens of billions of dollars on insurance subsidies, Hillary Clinton decided to create another entitlement program for her cradle-to-grave nanny state vision. In her address to the Congressional Black Caucus, Hillary said she'd like to spend $20 billion each year on checks to newborn infants: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's...

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go...