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March 1, 2007

Personal Accounts, Not Tax Increases

We will not get personal retirement accounts through tax increases, or cuts in future promised benefits. Quite the contrary, it was including these options on the table that actually killed the campaign for personal accounts. So it is those would-be reformers who misled the President down this pain caucus highway who should be held responsible for any future tax increases that will result due to the failure of reform now.
The only way to achieve personal accounts is to go back to the positive, populist reform model on which George Bush was elected. Propose a specific personal account plan, without tax increases or benefit cuts, that obviously benefits working people overwhelmingly. Then take that over the heads of the Washington establishment directly to the people, as Reagan did so successfully.

March 1, 2007

Don’t Delay Spectrum Allocation to Public Safety

Over the years there have been many attempts to ensure communications interoperability for state and local emergency first responders such as police, fire, and ambulance services.
February 27, 2007

State Pensions Are also Drowning in Unfunded Liability

So you think Social Security is facing an unfunded liability crisis? Well, you’re right.
February 22, 2007

The Public Domain Has Nothing to Fear from IP

It is commonly asserted by the CopyLeft crowd that intellectual property protections have recently been expanded to such a degree that the public domain is under threat.
February 20, 2007

Pop Goes the (Earmark) Weasel

You know how when you squeeze a balloon it just pops out some place out? And then you squeeze it there and out pops a different bulge? That’s what’s happening in earmark reform.
February 15, 2007

Who Should Determine What's on TV?

A few weeks ago, Free Press, a politically-liberal "media reform" group, held its National Conference for Media Reform.
February 8, 2007

Show-Me the Free Market

While many states are getting it right, Missouri is getting it wrong -- instead of moving to deregulate old technologies that have no need for the competition-squelching, price-hiking supervision, the state’s public service commission is moving to regulate new technologies harming advances in technology, service to customers, and state competition in the process.
February 6, 2007

When a Presidential Candidate Oversells His Plan

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney (R) shepherded through his universal health care reform plan that is now being cited as a model for other states.
February 1, 2007

Fake Drugs and False Pride: Congress and Prescription Drug Importation

Many members of Congress are once again embracing the notion that the U.
January 30, 2007

Who Will Lead?

President Bush will deliver his budget to Congress next week, which will be followed by 10 months of pandering, earmarking, name calling and fussing until Congress finally decides to .

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