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New Bush Budget Does Little to Slow Spending Binge
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The Speech: Will It Be Good News for Taxpayers?
Real spending restraint, tax relief are needed
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NEA: 30 Years of Lobbying Democrats
Unions should be part of congressional reforms
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Save the Bush Tax Cuts
GOP must overcome Democrats’ opposition
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Don’t Revive Jimmy Carter’s Energy Policy
Windfall-profit tax is bad idea for America
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Colorado Delivers Body Blow to TABOR
By a slender 52%-to-48% margin, Colorado voters on November 1 passed Referendum C, suspending the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) for five years. The vote delivers a strong but non-fatal blow to the nationwide effort to use TABOR as | Read More »
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Prop. 77 Would Make California Elections Competitive
If you lived in California in 2004, chances are the winners of last November’s federal elections in your jurisdiction were a foregone conclusion. The presidential and Senate elections were never in doubt in California. Nor, for that matter, were most | Read More »
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States Scheme to Tax Internet
Across America, state politicians of both parties—joined by some strange bedfellows—are seeking to institute the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP), which would result in Americans paying billions of dollars more in taxes. The SSTP is an interstate collaborative agreement that | Read More »
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BRAC: Bringing Some Fiscal Sanity to Washington
While the Bush Administration has established a dismal record on federal spending, a bit of bright news is on the horizon in the form of the soon-to-be-completed report of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission. If implemented by the | Read More »
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Highway Robbery: $286 Billion
George Orwell’s 1946 classic Animal Farm is a tale of the rising up of the long downtrodden animals to overthrow the hated humans and establish a new order. Under new management, the farm seems to move in the right direction | Read More »
