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The GOP’s Food Stamp Proposal Would Blow the Cost Savings on Bureaucracy0
- Economics
- May 9, 2018
The Republicans have so forgotten how to control spending, even when they try something conservative it is not really conservative. Consider the House GOP’s proposed reforms to the food stamp program in the upcoming farm bill. The GOP wants to put work requirements on a small share of food stamp (“SNAP”) recipients. The Congressional Budget
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Republicans Love Government Spending. Listen to What They Say at Hearings.0
- Economics
- April 6, 2018
I am a fan of Kimberley Strassel’s columns about federal politics in the Wall Street Journal. But her recent column about the omnibus spending bill—which increased spending 13 percent in one year—was off the mark. Strassel suggested that Trump and the Republicans did not want to increase spending that much, but the Democrats forced them
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Is it Time to Be Honest About Ethanol?0
- Economics
- January 31, 2018
The federal government imposes a mandate to blend corn ethanol and other biofuels into the nation’s gasoline. This “renewable fuel standard” or RFS raises prices at the gas pump. The “10% Ethanol” sticker you see when filling your tank signals that you are being economically exploited by the government in cahoots with corn farmers. At
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National Review Errs on Tax Cuts0
- Economics
- December 21, 2017
National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru has a new article, “The Tax Cut Doesn’t ‘Tilt Toward the Middle Class.” The piece apparently responds to commentary by Veronique de Rugy and me about the effects of the GOP tax plan. Ramesh says: According to the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), households making between $20,000 and $30,000 pay 0.7
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