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Stephen Moore Issue Forum Articles

Focusing on paychecks

February 28, 2016

If Donald Trump’s gravity-defying ascendancy has validated anything, it is that for middle America, jobs and economic security are still the dominant issue. Republicans have talked up tax reform, regulatory relief and fiscal restraint — and those are all critical to growth. But it’s time for Republicans to expand their portfolio of issues and concentrate […]

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Flat Tax/Value Added Tax/Business Transfer Debate

February 17, 2016

Last week the Heritage Foundation hosted a debate featuring, among others two Leadership Project for America Foundation policy advisers, Stephen Moore and Veronique de Rugy. The subject was tax reform, described by Heritage as follows: A business transfer tax (a BTT) is a flat rate consumption tax collected at the business level. A BTT has […]

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‎Comparing the Surviving Candidates’ Tax Plans

February 4, 2016

‎The presidential candidates are dropping like flies now, so let’s see who of the survivors has the most pro-growth tax plan. All the Republican candidates have crafted plans that would slash tax rates for everyone, and most would vastly simplify the thousands of pages of IRS tax code too. This chart shows how low tax […]

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The Rubio-Cruz Flat Tax Spat

January 20, 2016

Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio keep mixing it up on the merits of a flat tax. ‎Cruz wants one, and Rubio says it will lead to higher rates later and make America look like Europe. A Rubio super PAC disingenuously slams the Cruz flat tax as “a Canadian-style tax.” There are many versions of […]

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Are Clinton, Sanders Partly Responsible for Stock Market Decline?

January 20, 2016

There are a lot of things behind the recent stock market declines, but at least some of the blame for the 2016 bear market sell-off likely rests with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – the two Democratic frontrunners for president. At Sunday’s debate it was a race to see who could raise tax rates the […]

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