LPA Foundation

Issues Forum: Marco Rubio

Taxes

Taxes

Which GOP Candidate’s Tax Plan Is the Most Pro-Growth?

March 11, 2016

t is unfortunate that insults have replace substantive policy debate in the race for the Republican nomination because we should be enjoying a spirited debate over how to overhaul the tax code. Never before has there been a presidential campaign in which so many candidates put forward such well-developed, pro-growth tax reform plans. At one […]

Read More

Advisor Veronique de Rugy

Advisor Veronique de Rugy - LPA Foundation Policy Advisor

GOP Candidates Lacking in Good Free-Market Health Plans

March 4, 2016

Last year, Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner published an e-book, “Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care,” that sheds some light on what conservatives are thinking about how to replace Obamacare. In his book, Klein argues that the main difference between the most common Obamacare alternatives is how much their […]

Read More

Health Care

Health Care

No, Rubio’s Plan Does Not Include an Individual Mandate

March 1, 2016

Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute believes that Senator Marco Rubio’s plan for health-care reform would be politically ruinous for those opposed to Obamacare. He urges conservatives to embrace his plan — for “Large HSAs,” as they are known — as being far preferable, analytically and politically. His argument is so weak that one is […]

Read More

Health Care

Health Care

Yes, Marco Rubio’s Obamacare Replacement Plan — Tax Credits — Is An Individual Mandate

February 29, 2016

Conservatives who support Marco Rubio and/or health-insurance tax credits reacted angrily when I wrote that Rubio’s proposal to replace Obamacare with a universal tax credit is an individual mandate. It’s not the first time. In the Manchester Union-Leader last year, I explained why Rubio’s tax credits are merely Obamacare-lite. In a forcefully worded blog post, the Conservative Reform […]

Read More

Health Care

Health Care

Marco Rubio’s Healthcare Plan Absolutely Does Not Contain An Individual Mandate

February 26, 2016

Few people have done more to advance the cause of Obamacare repeal than the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon, the leading force behind the King v. Burwell challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate. That’s why I was so…disappointed…to see an article just posted by Cannon over at NRO. Its title is “Marco Rubio’s Healthcare Plan Has an Individual […]

Read More