Posts Tagged ‘Main Street’

Tax Reform, the Family, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Tax reform should be pro-growth, pro-opportunity, and pro-family, reflecting parents’ irreplaceable contribution to society (and to keeping the entitlement state solvent) and treating children as an investment in America’s future.

Lee.Senate.gov, September 17, 2013
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    Taming the Megabanks

    Fueled by federal policy, the six largest U.S. banks have grown 20-fold in just 30 years; in response, bank reform should make banks smaller, simpler, and safer—the opposite of what Dodd-Frank does.

    National Affairs, Summer 2013
  • Incomes Have Dropped Twice as Much During the ‘Recovery’ as During the Recession

    Under President Obama’s agenda of driving ever more money and power to Washington, it’s the typical American household income that is suffering.

    The Weekly Standard, August 23, 2013
  • Start a Family …

    GOP policy should be informed by new analysis showing a positive correlation between marriage rates, inexpensive real estate, and Republican voters.

    The Weekly Standard, April 22, 2013
  • Taxes and the Family

    Our taxes and entitlements actively discourage Americans from having children (even as funding our entitlements requires them), so we need pro-family tax reform to offset this anti-parenting bias.

    National Affairs, Winter 2010
  • The Middle Class or the Middle Men?

    While the Democrats promote big government, big business, and big everything, the GOP should fight cronyism while proposing regulatory, tax, welfare, education, and infrastructure reform.

    The Washington Examiner, July 24, 2013
  • The Country Party

    The Democrats’ shift toward economic elitism affords Republicans an enormous opportunity to embrace a new organizing principle: being the party of economic populism.

    National Review, July 29, 2013
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    What Conservatives Are For

    Senator Mike Lee discusses the conservative agenda at the Heritage Foundation and encourages conservatives to share their vision of community and liberty.

    YouTube, April 22, 2013
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    The Steep Climb to Reclaim the American Ideal

    Paul Ryan addresses the House on the night of Obamacare's passage, urging members to listen to the American people, highlighting that America's founding principles are at stake, and vowing that the fight will continue and will be won.

    YouTube, March 21, 2010
  • Senators Brown and Vitter Offer a Smart and Simple Plan to End Too Big to Fail

    The Brown-Vitter plan is based on the simple notion that, as banks grow bigger, the risk they pose to taxpayers grows exponentially; therefore, so should their reserves.

    American Enterprise Institute, April 25, 2013
  • Route 66, Tocqueville, and Obamacare

    Obamacare will limit the very liberty that Main St. America values and the Founders fought to preserve.

    National Review, August 21, 2009