A
Note From
the Chairman
Emeritus
By Bill
Frenzel
“Fired up!
Ready to
go!”
For some
Americans,
those five
words, a
familiar
refrain at
Barack Obama
rallies,
have become
synonymous
with change
this
election
season.
Other
Americans
want more
meat on
their
rhetorical
bone.
They’re
looking for
people
who are not
just talking
about
change................MOREØØ
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Taxes and
the Reagan
Revolution
A Q&A With
Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
has spent
most of his
adult life
in the
public
spotlight....The
Forum spoke
recently
with
Secretary
Kemp about
the state of
the tax
debate in
the U.S.
today, the
role tax
cuts played
in making
the Reagan
Presidency a
success, and
whether the
issue of
taxes is
still
relevant.......................MOREØØ
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Fanning the
Flames
Of Change
By Mark
Sanford
The writer
Thomas
Friedman
makes the
argument
that the
most
important
competition
today is
between “you
and your
imagination.”
As much as
football
fans may
have been
led to
believe it
was between
the Patriots
and the
Giants at
the Super
Bowl – or as
much as
people might
believe in
economic
terms.............MOREØØ
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In the Hands
of
the People
By Paul Ryan
Millions of
taxpayers
dodged a
bullet when
Congress in
December
finally
passed a
clean, one
year “patch”
on the
exemption
level for
the
Alternative
Minimum Tax
(AMT),
though many
of them may
not know it.
This
eleventh-hour
legislation
was needed
to protect
middle-income
taxpayers....................MOREØØ |
Reforming
the
Tax Code
By
Scott Hodge
For the
first time
since 1986,
the stars
may be
aligning for
a grand
bipartisan
compromise
on
fundamental
tax reform.
Regardless
of who wins
in November,
the next
president
and Congress
will have to
deal with
the
collision of
two
cataclysmic
tax events:
the 2011
expiration
of the Bush
tax cuts
and.............MOREØØ
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Keys to Tax
Reform
By Ernest S.
Christian &
Gary A.
Robbins
Talk of
taxes and
tax reform
abounds, and
it has ever
been thus --
especially
when
election
time rolls
around. The
story of the
tax code --
insofar as
yet written
-- is also
the story of
government
and
politics. In
the
beginning,
taxes begat
government;
government
begat
spending......................MOREØØ |
Why Tax Cuts
Still
Matter
By
William
Beach
Once again,
presidential
politics has
turned to
tax policy.
The
candidates
are debating
not only
whether the
sluggish
economy
justifies
another
round of tax
cuts, but
whether the
tax cuts
enacted by
President
Bush in 2001
and 2003
should be
allowed to
expire or
made
permanent
once and for
all. Our
country’s......MOREØØ
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Smart Tax
Policy
Needed
By John
Engler
It’s a comment many of us heard in our early years on the job,
delivered by
a demanding
boss or
exasperated
coworker:“Work
smarter, not
harder!”
Manufacturers
in the
United
States take
those words
to heart.
They have
to. Although
no strangers
to hard
work,
America’s
manufacturers
know that
their
competitive.........MOREØØ |
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The
Handwriting
is on the
Wall
By Jon
Porter
The American
health care
system needs
to embrace
21st century
technology.
This can
begin now by
dramatically
increasing
the number
of
prescriptions
transmitted
electronically.
Every year,
over 3
billion
prescriptions
are filled
in the
United
States, the
majority of
which are
scribbled....................MOREØØ |
A Budget
that Plans
for the
Future
By
Andrew A.
Samwick
As signs of
economic
weakness
appeared in
January
2008, the
White House
and House
Leaders
agreed to a
$150 billion
stimulus
package
based on
rebates to
taxpayers
and tax
incentives
for
businesses.
While the
Senate has
yet to
sign-off on
this
package, one
thing is
certain –
using fiscal
policy..................MOREØØ
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The Boldness of
T. Roosevelt
By William
N. Tilchin
Theodore
Roosevelt was
one of America’s
most courageous,
most creative,
most effective
presidents. He
was a
progressive
Republican who
conceived of the
president as the
“steward” of the
American people,
future
generations
included.
Roosevelt
instituted a
far-reaching
conservation
program......
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