2010 American presidential commission
Nihal Krishan of the Washington Examiner highlights a new proposal from Republicans on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans will introduce legislation … to create a new bipartisan national commission to reduce…
Former Vice President Joe Biden was right when he called it a $40 billion scam. That’s how Biden once characterized Medicaid provider taxes. States impose these taxes on hospitals or…
“Economic growth, while necessary, is insufficient to address many of the challenges of our 21st-century economy,” Abby McCloskey writes in National Affairs. She offers some policy suggestions to improve connections…
• The New York Times notes that the fate of the Export-Import Bank — a federal agency backed by the business establishment but seen as a source of crony capitalism by…
Allan Sloan of Fortune magazine focuses attention in his latest column on Michigan congressman Dave Camp‘s struggles to reach a bipartisan deal on tax reform. Everyone talks about wanting bipartisan…
The Financial Services Committee in Congress is holding a series of hearings on the National Debt and the problems it is causing for the nation. The first of those hearings…
Last Friday the Financial Services Committee in Congress sent out a press release stating they were going to begin a hearing series on the national debt. Hopefully this series of…
A former senator and an anti-tax activist walk into a zoo. Yes, it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. It’s actually a scenario set up by TIME magazine.…
While North Carolina legislators continue to work out their tax reform proposals — USA Tax, anyone? — the latest Bloomberg Businessweek documents Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Camp’s efforts to achieve…
… Bloomberg Businessweek does. The magazine’s latest cover story focuses on former UNC President and two-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles, his Republican sidekick Alan Simpson, and their ongoing…
You’re right — not much. That didn’t stop Bloomberg Businessweek from making the comparison. Simpson-Bowles is the James Dean of deficit-reduction plans: more popular in death than life. Republican Senator…
He’s not the front-runner; White House chief of staff Jack Lew holds that distinction. (Lew’s is the largest photo at right.) But former Clinton-era chief of staff and former UNC…