Recent Commentaries tagged (politics)
Key Vote Alert - "NO" on the Highway Bill...
KEY VOTE ALERT s inefficient control over infrastructure spending. It also has awful revenue offsets (like auto import tariffs) that are just an excuse to spend more money. The time for true reform is now. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how w...
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Key Vote Alert - "YES" on Permanent Earmark Ban
KEY VOTE ALERT s 2012 Congressional Scorecard. Earmarks are bad policy and bad politics. Congress needs to end them permanently. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market po...
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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on the Highway Bill (HR 7)
KEY VOTE ALERT s still a remarkably bloated and inefficient piece of legislation. True reform would devolve infrastructure building and maintenance back to the states and end or greatly reduce the federal gas tax. Bills that do that are currently being sponsored by Rep. Tom Graves (H.R. 3264) and...
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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on Export-Import Bank...
KEY VOTE ALERT s charter and shut it down for good. Our Congressional Scorecard for the 112th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.
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Buffett's Faulty Logic
By now, everyone has heard Warren Buffett complain that he pays less than his secretary does in federal taxes, and therefore, the government should raise his taxes. Greg Mankiw
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Obama Plugs Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
By Martin Denholm While the Republican presidential candidates bicker over, well, pretty much everything, they've found at least one thing they agree on: raising fists against President Obama's nixing of the Keystone XL. Let's grab a front-row seat for the show and Washington's latest... ***This ...
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