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Merrill Matthews tells reporter Michael Kanell a larger workforce itself adds to the economy's potential. 

Merrill Matthews said Obama claims credit for increasing oil and natural gas production while working to thwart it. “His energy ‘successes’ [amount to] putting a happy face on a dysfunctional and damaging effort,” he said.

Fiscal restraint and energy production are the best way to fiscal health. 

Let's shift from the current system where countless people are involved in managing care and controlling costs—except the doctor and patient—to one in which patients are financially empowered to make their own decisions.

Government program defrauders should have a positive outlook for 2014 as a banner year for scamming taxpayers. 

The Republican Study Committee’s recent proposal as an alternative to the Obamacare rollout is on the right track, and changes economic incentives for the U.S. health care system. 

“A growing number of conservatives, and especially tea partyers and libertarian-leaning Americans, have decided that their commitment is more to ideology than political party,” said Merrill Matthews of IPI. “And while they will likely vote Republican in most elections, they have become dissatisfied with the Republican label because they don’t think it stands for — or too often strays from — principled conservatism.”

After years of watching companies flee the country, the UK has begun aggressively reforming its corporate tax code. Meanwhile, the 40% U.S. corporate tax rate remains the highest in the world.

The GOP has an 83 percent chance or better of winning the presidency in 2016.

The U.S. decline appears to be part of a long-term trend due primarily to power plants increasingly switching from coal to cheap and cleaner-burning natural gas.