Stephen Moore
President, Club for Growth
If I seem to be dwelling over much on tax policy these days, there's a reason.
When Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he favors abolishing the corporate income tax, he was simply echoing the sentiments tax reformers on the left and right have shared for decades. Abolition would do more to improve the economic competitiveness than almost anything congress could do.
A daylong conference on health care reform has united representatives from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Medical Association to discuss market-driven solutions to America's health care problems.
Moore also is a contributing editor to National Review, serves on the economic board of advisors for Time Magazine and is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal.
The regulatory climate for very small, neighborhood-based businesses, or microenterprises, in large American cities can significantly influence urban economic dynamism. Case studies of Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, and Los Angeles help illuminate the complexity and detail of regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship and identify programs and other efforts to encourage neighborhood-based development.
In 1995, attorney Phillip K. Howard introduced a note of sanity into the public discourse with a book called "The Death of Common Sense." Things haven't improved much since then, so he's back with "The Lost Art of Drawing The Line: How Fairness Went Too Far."