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Big Government Is Stifling The American Spirit

Big Government Is Stifling The American Spirit

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Just about everyone has a reason to question how the size of our government affects America'€™s financial and political future. Is government intervention in everything from economic policy to health care rewarding the '€œtakers,'€ and not the '€œmakers,'€ stifling innovators, entrepreneurs and business owners? Or has government done too little to support the growing poor and rapidly shrinking middle class?

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Differing Views
From Right and Left, Differing Views of the Government's Proper Role
Monday, October 11, 2010
Susan Page
GOP, Democrats Offer Dueling Governing Plans in Push to Midterm Elections
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Small Government
Drowning in Law
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Philip K. Howard
Summary: A Roadmap for America's Future 2.0
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Paul Ryan
Ten Ways to Super Charge the American Economy
Friday, October 1, 2010
Jim Powell
GOP ‘Pledge' Lacks Both Cuts and Courage
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Gene Healy
The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall
Monday, September 13, 2010
Arthur C. Brooks
Memo to Republicans: It's Big Government, Stupid!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Michael D. Tanner
Markets Scream through Dodd's Stifling Embrace
Monday, May 24, 2010
Kevin A. Hassett
America Faces a New Culture War
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Arthur C. Brooks
On the Fiscal Road to Serfdom
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Desmond Lachman
Big Government
The Debate We Should Be Having
Monday, October 11, 2010
Robert Kuttner
Hey, Small Spender
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Paul Krugman
The Death of the Facts
Monday, October 4, 2010
Jonathan Chait
The American Social Contract: Lessons from the Great Recession
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sherle R. Schwenninger
How Big Government Helps the Economy Take Off
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Jeff Madrick
How Free Markets Sank the U.S. Economy
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Ellen Freilich
Tea Party
Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right
Monday, February 15, 2010
David Barstow
'Tea Party' Members Offer a Ground-Level View
Friday, August 13, 2010
Kathy Kiely
Beyond the Tea Party
Monday, September 13, 2010
Lee Harris
How to Succeed in Politics
Monday, June 28, 2010
Patrick Allitt
Taxes
In the Loophole
Monday, October 11, 2010
Tim Fernholz
I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They'll Make Me Work Less
Saturday, October 9, 2010
N. Gregory Mankiw
Tax Cuts and Revenue: What We Learned in the 1980s
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Richard W. Rahn
Give U.S. Companies Certainty on Taxes
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Robert C. Pozen
Don't Raise Taxes on Job Creators
Friday, September 17, 2010
Scott A. Hodge
One Nation, Two Deficits
Monday, September 6, 2010
Peter Orszag
The ‘Tax Expenditure' Solution for Our National Debt
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Martin Feldstein
Extend the Bush Tax Cuts – For Now
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Martin Feldstein
Taxes Not Seen as Making the Rich Flee New York
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Nicholas Confessore
Taxes on the Rich Are the Poor Man's Burden
Sunday, April 15, 2001
John Tamny
Health Care
Health Law Augurs Transfer of Funds from Old to Young
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Janet Adamy
Health Care Reform's Winners and Losers
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Brian Wingfield
On Our Way to Slowing the Growth Rate?
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Igor Volsky
The Impact of Health Reform on Health System Spending
Friday, May 21, 2010
David M. Cutler
Bad Medicine
Monday, July 12, 2010
Michael D. Tanner
Focus on Health Reform
Friday, March 26, 2010
Kaiser Family Foundation
Entitlements
Austerity: The False Cure
Monday, October 11, 2010
Greg Anrig
Attention: Deficit
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Isabel Sawhill
TARP
TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Jackie Calmes
TARP Redux: Voters Cry Foul as Banks Rake It In
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Eric Schurenberg
Defense Spending
British Cuts to Military Concern U.S. Officials
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Michael R. Gordon
We Must Tame Defense Spending
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Dan Simpson
Peace Doesn't Keep Itself
Monday, October 4, 2010
Arthur C. Brooks
Sign of Changing Times
Monday, September 20, 2010
William Matthews
The Indispensable, Unaffordable Nation
Friday, September 10, 2010
James Kitfield
Neocons Talk Deficit but Won't Budge on Defense Cuts
Friday, October 8, 2010
Bruce Bartlett
Stimulus
The Obama Economy
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Wall Street Journal
Cheap Debt for Corporations Fails to Spur Economy
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Graham Bowley
Obama Offers a Transit Plan to Create Jobs
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Obama, in Campaign Mode, Defends Policies and Offers New Proposal for Transportation Spending
Monday, September 6, 2010
Peter Slevin
Focusing on Innovation
Monday, September 6, 2010
Michael Mandel
'Green' Jobs No Longer Golden in Stimulus
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Patrice Hill
China May Spend $738 Billion on Clean Energy Projects
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Wang Ying
Income Gap
Top 1% of Earners Get 20% of the Money
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Tom Abate
Is America a Plutonomy?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Michael Lind
Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion
Monday, October 11, 2010
Liz Rappaport
CBO Economic Outlook
The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Congressional Budget Office
Brookings Balanced Debt
The Future is Now: A Balanced Plan to Stabilize Public Debt and Promote Economic Growth
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Congressional Budget Office