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December 21, 2012

ALEC Eyes IP Regulation Laws, Municipal Broadband Reservations for 2013 Priorities

IPI expert referenced: Bartlett D. Cleland | Media Hit

ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force is examining "uber trends" affecting the telecom world, big changes that won't be easy to "crystallize into model legislation," as the heavyweight organization has often done in the past, said IPI's Bartlett Cleland, Private Chair.

December 21, 2012

Smart Energy Policy Would Make Obama Look Like an Economic Genius

If Obama wants more federal revenue, he can have it without raising taxes. Just relax the restrictions on drilling on federal lands and offshore and let natural gas companies export abroad.

December 17, 2012

Boehner to House GOP: Read My Lips--Break Your Campaign Promises

Speaker Boehner has apparently put tax hikes on the table in negotiations with President Obama, despite virtually every Republican having campaigned against raising any tax rate. Thus House Republicans may find themselves pushed by their own leadership to follow Bush 41's sorry example—and getting booted out of office because of it.
December 12, 2012

Democrats Draw Line on Medicaid Cuts

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews | Media Hit

NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner cites IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews on why Medicaid needs a complete overhaul. "Although it's better than not having any insurance, it is bad insurance. And I argue that health care coverage for the poor shouldn't necessarily be poor coverage."

December 10, 2012

Seven Reasons States Should Just Say No To Medicaid Expansion

Since ObamaCare's success will be judged solely by how many uninsured people attain coverage, Democrats are desperately hoping the states will accept the Medicaid expansion being foisted on them by the health care law. But they may be be disappointed, writes IPI's Merrill Matthews.

December 6, 2012

Stand by that pledge

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews | Media Hit

Stand fast, keep your promise, says a coalition of interest groups, including IPI, that implore lawmakers not to waver on the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, even as Democrats and select Republicans insist that the only alternative to the "fiscal cliff" is instant compromise. Not so, says the coalition.

November 30, 2012

Democrats Stop Blaming Bush and Start Blaming Grover Norquist

In their endless quest to blame someone other than their own policies for the country’s economic ills, liberals are focusing less on former President George W. Bush and more on Grover Norquist, founder and president Americans for Tax Reform and creator of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.”

November 27, 2012

FTC Poised to Help Google's Rivals, Not Consumers

Who, or what, is being protected by antitrust actions? Not consumers. If they don’t like something, they won’t use it. Innovation still holds the key for our greater economic future, so long as government doesn’t get in the way.

November 26, 2012

Should the GOP Break Their Anti-Tax Pledge?

IPI president Tom Giovanetti tells Politico if the GOP breaks the pledge, they do so at their own peril.

November 26, 2012

The little-discussed tax increase that hits many of us

President Barack Obama is determined to make the wealthy “pay a little more” in taxes. But if he gets his way one very important tax rate-- dividends-- will triple overnight.

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