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Conservatives & Moderates: Vote Kerry! Vote Gridlock!

…control. “Divided government,” he says, “is perhaps the only real mechanism we have … to restrain the politicians in D.C. from spending even more of our money.” The libertarian Cato

The Source of Bush’s Budget Assertion

…for NDNHS authorizations that they use. Tad DeHaven of the Cato Institute wrote a piece about this subject in the National Review. Try as he might, he wasn’t able to…

Raising Future Taxes Yet Again

…past five years: Middle-income households would receive an average tax cut of $20 from the agreement, according to the joint Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, while 0.02 percent of…

Silencing the Science on Gun Research

…government agencies including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Hational Institute of Health, and other Department of Health agencies. There’s no denying…

The Road to Serfdom!!

…Use Social Security!: [I]n early June 1973, weeks after [Charles] Koch was appointed president of the Institute for Humane Studies. Along with his brothers, Koch inherited his father’s privately held…

Sensible Tax Reform

Institute Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota Richard Parker, Harvard University Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Institute of Bard College Gustav Ranis, Yale University Kathleen Stephansen Lucy Law Webster, Center for…

Making Markets be Markets

…but thought these would be of interest. Simon Johnson on the Doom Cycle (MMBM) from Roosevelt Institute on Vimeo. Elizabeth Warren on Consumer Protection (MMBM) from Roosevelt Institute on Vimeo….

Looting Social Security: (the Basics Revisited, Again)

…Heritage, joined by the American Enterprise Institute, the Concord Coalition, the New America Foundation, the Progressive Policy Institute and the Urban Institute. “Our group covers the ideological spectrum,” they claim….

Global warming policy on taxes report

…McCarl, Texas A&M University Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University William Nordhaus, Yale University Sergey Paltsev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Pizer, Resources for the Future David Popp, Syracuse University John Reilly,…