Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
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A Brave New GOP
Posted on July 7, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) To build a modern America, we have to modernize the Grand Old Party. Events over the last week have put an exclamation point on...
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The Toughest Vote
Posted on May 12, 2015
Robin Hayes openly wept on the House Floor after voting to give President Bush fast track authority late in 2001. He thought the vote in favor TPA would cost him...
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The Gordian Knot of Tax Reform
Posted on May 1, 2015
Our federal tax code is one big Gordian knot. It has so many rules and loopholes and deductions that its complexity strangles the growth of the American economy and causes...
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The Real Budget Question: How Do You Grow the Economy?
Posted on March 13, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) House Republicans spent a lot of time in 1995 and 1996 fighting over arcane details of their budget resolution: whether to...
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Department of Cyber-Defense
Posted on December 19, 2014
Ok, so it’s not exactly 9/11. Cancelling a lousy movie that was supposed to be released on Christmas Day celebrating the assassination of a two-bit North Korean dictator is not...
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