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 […]
Read MoreWhatever one thinks of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, when it comes to fighting against the unhealthy marriage of government and big companies (also known as cronyism), he has been more principled and courageous than all of the other remaining candidates in this race. Case in point: Even though on the campaign trail in Iowa, and in […]
Read MoreAs predicted, the economy had a very weak fourth quarter. Economists were predicting 0.8 percent growth but it actually came in at 0.7 percent. That means a 2.4 percent growth for 2015. It means that this recovery continues to be weak, the weakest actually. Unfortunately, this issue was not covered during the Republican debate last night. That’s a failure […]
Read MoreLast week, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush released his plan for reforming education. The plan, called “Restoring the Right to Rise Through a Quality Education,” rightly assesses that K-12 education is failing students and “higher education has become too expensive for many Americans to afford.” Take K-12 education. During the last 40 years, the […]
Read MoreA few days ago, we got the news that for the first time ever, government spending on retirement benefits won’t be the biggest ticket item in the federal budget. According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, in 2015 spending on Social Security was displaced from its first-place position by spending on health care programs, […]
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