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Many people are bemoaning the current financial crisis facing most states.

Amid all the current concern over our economic downturn, it's important to remember that in the most recent decade the U.

While the conventional wisdom among most Democrats and many pundits is that the Big Three auto manufacturers are too big to fail, we wonder if they are too big not to fail.

“The State Video Tax Fairness Act” was introduced in Congress with underlying goals which are laudable—ending discriminatory tax treatment, creating a competitive level playing field for all video providers, and increasing consumer benefit.

Simply trying to cut promised entitlement benefits is not a promising reform strategy. The solution lies in fundamental structural reforms to create new safety net programs that would be far more effective in achieving social goals, with only a fraction of the spending of current programs. This is the key to making entitlement reforms politically feasible.

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President-elect Barack Obama could do a great deal of good when it comes to emphasizing the important role that technological advances play in our economy.

For years the Institute for Policy Innovation has supported fundamental tax reform, such as the suggested “flat” income tax.

Bush advanced personal accounts for Social Security during his 2000 campaign, focusing solely on the personal accounts and their benefits for working people, and contrasting them with the alternatives of tax increases and benefit cuts. But once elected, he allowed this reform model to be displaced by tax increases and benefit cuts as the core of reform, with personal accounts as the “dessert.” This left the reform without the grassroots appeal to overcome the opposition on such a politically sensitive issue as Social Security.

How many times have you been driving along talking on your mobile phone (with a hands free device, of course) and suddenly the call drops? Often enough that perhaps the most ubiquitous advertising phrase today is “Can you hear me now?” Immediately the mobile phone carrier gets cursed for the problem as we redial.