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Stephen Moore

Former Senior Fellow

Stephen Moore is president of the Free Enterprise Fund and a contributing editor of National Review. He previously was the Cato Institute's director of fiscal policy studies. Moore is the co-author of It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years and the author of Government: America's #1 Growth Industry.

Moore served as a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee, under Chairman Dick Armey (Tex.). There, he advised Armey on budget, tax, and competitiveness issues. He also helped write the Armey flat tax proposal now before Congress.

From 1983 through 1987, Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Moore has worked for two presidential commissions. In 1988, he was a special consultant to the National Economic Commission. In 1987, he was research director of President Reagan's Commission on Privatization.

Stephen Moore also serves on the economic board of advisers for Time magazine, and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Human Events, and Reader's Digest. Moore has appeared on many TV shows, including CNN's Inside Politics, Crossfire, and Moneyline, NBC's Nightly News, Fox Morning News, and The McLaughlin Group. The Associated Press recently wrote, "Moore has earned the wide respect of economists for his many forays into the entrails of taxation and budgetary matters." Previously, Moore co-founded and served as president of the Club for Growth.

Moore is also the author of Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy (American University Press, 1994); and Privatization: A Strategy for Taming the Deficit (The Heritage Foundation, 1988). He is also the editor of Restoring the Dream: What House Republicans Plan to Do Now to Strengthen the Family, Balance the Budget, and Replace Welfare (Times Mirror, 1995).

Stephen Moore is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds an MA in Economics from George Mason University.

Published Works

Studies

"Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2004," by Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski, Cato Policy Analysis no. 537, March 1, 2005

"Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2002," by Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski, Cato Policy Analysis No. 454, September 20, 2002.

"A Fiscal Report Card on America's Governors: 1998," coauthor, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 257 (July 26, 1998)

"How the Budget Revolution Was Lost," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 281 (September 2, 1997)

"The ABCs of the Capital Gains Tax," coauthor, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 242 (October 4, 1995)

Government: America's #1 Growth Industry (1995)

Restoring the Dream: Strengthen the Family, Balance the Budget, Replace the Welfare State, editor (1995)

Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy, coauthor (1994)

Congressional Testimony and Speeches

"Testimony by Steve Moore, President Bush's Economic Growth Tax Cut," Cato Congressional Testimony, March 18, 2003.

Opinion and Commentary

"Student Loans . . . or Ripoffs?," the Washington Times, April 27, 2005.

"GOP Are now Big Spenders ," the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 22, 2005.

"Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Has Sent Deficit Spiraling," the Chicago-Sun Times, February 8, 2005.

"How Much Tax Would You Like to Pay?" the Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2005.

"The Right Economic Agenda," A Cato Daily Commentary, September 2, 2004.

"Never a Right Time to Tax Internet," the Washington Times, May 5, 2004.

"Good News About Gas Prices," Nationalreview.com, May 10, 2004.

"Vapors at the Pump" A Cato Daily Commentary, April 6, 2004.

"Pricey Government Prize," the Washington Times, February 3, 2004.

"Soaring Indicators," the Washington Times, November 28, 2003.

"Untrue at Any Speed," Nationalreview.com, December 2, 2003.

"Where's the Fiscal Outrage?," the Washington Times, November 7, 2003.

"The Red Ink State," the Weekly Standard, October 6, 2003.

"Washington's Biggest Deficit Is the Shortfall of Courage," Investor's Business Daily, September 2, 2003.

"Historically, Gasoline Prices Are Not Expensive," A Cato Daily Commentary, September 6, 2003.

"Divine Tax Intervention?" the Washington Times, August 23, 2003.

"Big Government Finds Enablers Among the GOP," the Boston Herald, August 5, 2003.

"A Tax Cut Worth Cheering," Nationalreview.com, May 27, 2003.

"Trial Lawyers on Trial," Scripps Howard News Service, May 2, 2003.

"Focus on Growth, Not Deficit," USA Today, April 24, 2003.

"A Monstrosity . . . Forcing Us to Think," A Cato Daily Commentary, April 20, 2003.

"Tax Plan Revival? ," the Washington Times, April 6, 2003.

"Union Tactics Cost Jobs," the Washington Times, March 13, 2003.

"Republicans Who Love Taxes," A Cato Daily Commentary, February 23, 2003.

"Tax-Cut Battle Will Be a Winner for the Economy" Newsday, January 9, 2003.

"A United They Fall : Unions Won't Prosper if American Corporations Don't," the Weekly Standard, January 13, 2003.

"Rating the Governors," by Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski, the Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2002.

"A GOP Surrender On Social Security?" Nationalreview.com, September 18, 2002.