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Instead of tax reform Congress seems insistent on blame, negative reinforcement and abdicating responsibility.

Sen. Paul plans to introduce legislation allowing ex-felons to vote in federal elections.  But the Constitution leaves voter eligibility up to the states, not Congress.

There is little, if any, room in the tax code for taxes conceived as a means to influence behavior. However, a conversation about using the tax code as means to control citizens does seem to correctly involve cow waste.

Hopefully, the next step on the right path will be taken with the House Judiciary Committee deciding that the Internet tax moratorium must continue.

The U.S. ban on exporting crude oil and natural gas keeps prices artificially high and opens the door for troublemaking countries with large fossil fuel reserves to wreak foreign policy havoc.

By Monday Illinois Governor Quinn must approve or deny a scheme that may well leave him in a similar, if less dramatic, situation as Nero.

Given the years of handwringing and little in the way of results, one might believe the reason the middle class is under greater stress is a mystery, but in fact the reason is clear.

Achieving a reasonably free global market in sugar through trade agreements should be the goal of U.S. policy, rather than allowing otherwise competitive domestic producers to be driven out of business through the subsidies and dumping practices of countries like Mexico, India, Brazil and Thailand, whose sugar supports dwarf those of the United States.

A new study shows that more highly skilled workers increase wages for everyone. It's a good reason to pass at least limited immigration, but politics may trump economics.

The Supreme Court took a step in the right direction, but the proposed patent legislation, which has been shelved, is also necessary to fully address bad actors’ behavior.