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Governors Go Home!

About half the nation’s governors are descending on Washington to do what politicians do best: beg for dollars. The primary purpose of this year’s National Governors Association (NGA) meeting is to...

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Today, We Start Working For Ourselves

On May 28, President Bush signed into law his third tax cut in as many years and fundamentally transformed Republican policy. The old Republican promise was that a new president would fight for one tax...

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Net Nonsense

This week the Senate will begin debate on legislation that will extend the now-expired moratorium on Internet taxation. The Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act (S.150) eliminates taxes on Internet...

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The Investor Election

Despite the presidential campaign focus on re-fighting the Vietnam War and second guessing the war in Iraq, history suggests that most voters will be voting their pocketbooks today. But how does a...

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We Raise Taxes, They Cut Spending?

Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale has suggested that conservatives “make a deal” with liberals. We will raise taxes to pay for the growing entitlement commitments of Medicare, Medicaid, Social...

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We Can't Keep Spending Like This

On Tuesday, President Bush announced that the federal budget deficit will be $100 billion lower than initially expected due to higher levels of economic growth. This is the third consecutive year...

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Speaker Pelosi's First Tax Hike?

Fifteen days into the new Democratic Congress, the party that ran on the platform of increasing our energy independence from foreign oil has introduced the “Clean Energy Act of 2007” (H.R. 6), which...

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Big Labor Makes Dems an Offer They Can't Refuse

There’s a scene in The Godfather where Vito Corleone needs to enlist the services of Amerigo Bonasera, the undertaker for whom he did a favor on his daughter’s wedding day. Vito asks Bonasera, “Are you...

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A Tax-and-Spend Orgy

Every time Congress spends new money on a government program it adds to the bill that taxpayers must pay. The taxpayer is the “forgotten man” who never gets mentioned when Congress pats itself on the...

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The Oracle of the Death Tax

Today the Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on the death tax entitled, “Federal Estate Tax: Uncertainty in Planning under Current Law.” Well, that title certainly serves to both understate...

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Democrats and Tax Hikes Are Linked

Congress turned a significant corner last week, with Republicans winning two critical victories on issues that were at the top of the list when Americans put them in power back in 1994 -- taxes and...

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A Very Taxing Election

Soon after the primaries ended the core issue of the 2008 presidential election shifted from Iraq to the economy. But today’s debate over economic policy does not highlight unemployment and job...

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re: Paul

Ideas alone do not have consequences. Ideas, even -- or especially -- powerful ideas are like seeds. If they land in fertile soil and are cultivated they can grow. On rock or sand or ignored or tended...

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Re: Jobs Numbers

The economy as measured by the market and businesses’ willingness to hire does not sound very excited by the Reid/Pelosi/Obama spending spree.The economy began to collapse when the Democrats captured...

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The Obama-Reid-Pelosi Spendathon

Tonight Pres. Barack Obama will deliver his first message to Congress. Obama will likely point out that the state of the union is grave, although he is less likely to admit that he, Nancy Pelosi, and...

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Not a Jobs Bill

The White House, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have found themselves increasingly desperate to rationalize their force-feeding our country health-care legislation. The most recent polls show Americans...

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You're Invited!

Are you going to Washington, D.C., for the big Tax Day Tea Party and grassroots lobbying of Congress this Thursday? If so, there’s a gathering you should know about. Americans for Tax Reform, Americans...

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'Good Government' and Good Governors

Franklin D. Roosevelt used the crisis of the Depression to dramatically increase the size, cost, and scope of the federal government. This had the virtue of continuing high levels of unemployment and...

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A U-Turn on the Road to Serfdom

Every year, Americans for Tax Reform calculates Cost of Government Day -- exactly how many days of the year Americans work to pay the total cost of government. This includes all government spending by...

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A U-Turn on the Road to Serfdom

It's Cost of Government Day! This year, Americans needed to work fully 231 days to pay for the total cost of government — from January 1st to today. You've been working for the government all year....

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