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A Bill That Actually Reforms Medicare

By Ryan Ellis April 13, 2015

Tomorrow, the Senate will consider H.R. 2, a Medicare-reform bill that has already acquired a classic Beltway acronym, MACRA. Conservatives should give their full support: According to a report released ...

Politics & Policy

A Medicare Bill Conservatives Need to Embrace

By Ryan Ellis March 26, 2015

The House of Representatives is poised to pass H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, today by a wide margin. The Senate is expected to follow ...

Politics & Policy

Tax Extenders Are Good for Conservatives

By Ryan Ellis December 4, 2014

The U.S. House of Representatives is fast approaching a vote on a one-year continuation of the “tax extenders” package as of this writing. The wide expectation is that the Senate ...

Will Tax Hikes Reduce the Cost of Government?

By Ryan Ellis August 12, 2011

Milton Friedman famously said that “the government will spend every penny it takes in taxes, and whatever more it can get away with.” Those in the mainstream media, the Washington ...

Politics & Policy

‘Read My Lips’ Won’t Happen Again

By Ryan Ellis June 13, 2011

In 1990, Washington, D.C., was in a panic. The deficit would kill us all. The Japanese (the Chinese of the era) would eat our lunch. Foreign creditors would own America ...

The ATR Balanced-Budget Plan: Washington’s Problem Is Over-spending, Not Under-taxing

By Ryan Ellis November 20, 2010

The Manhattan Institute’s Josh Barro has put up a long post criticizing Americans for Tax Reform’s balanced-budget plan. The plan in question rolls back all discretionary and mandatory spending (excluding ...