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				<title>Daniel J. Mitchell (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>How the Swiss 'Debt Brake' Tamed Government (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14308</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Americans looking for a way to tame government profligacy should look to Switzerland. In 2001, 85% of its voters approved an initiative that effectively requires its central government spending to grow no faster than trendline revenue.

The reform, called a "debt brake" in Switzerland, has been ve...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Why High Taxes Will Never Soak Rich (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14282</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s through the Buffett Rule, higher income-tax rates or double taxation of dividends and capital gains, President Obama often demands that &#8220;rich&#8221; taxpayers and big corporations send more money to Washington.

But as Americans pay their taxes by today&#8217;s deadline, w...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Inside America's Economic Angst (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14201</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Why do voters of all stripes generally see the economy as anemic? More than 3 million jobs have been created in the last two years, the Dow Jones has jumped from about 8,000 to more than 13,000, and the recession ended almost three years ago. Seems like a lot of good news. So is President Obama gett...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama Has Tried All the Wrong Policies (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14188</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank has a very useful interactive website that allows anybody to compare recessions and recoveries during the post-World War II era. It takes only a couple of clicks to complete the exercise, and does not reflect well on the current occupant of the White House&#8212;...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Tax Reform to Encourage Growth, Reduce the Deficit, and Promote Fairness (Congressional Testimony)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14156</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Dan Mitchell. I am a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. The views I&#8217;ll be expressing today are my own.

The internal revenue code is needlessly punitive and complex. Some of its major flaws are:
...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>A Swiss Response to American Fiscal Imperialism (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14101</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Switzerland is in the unfortunate position of being bullied and harassed by the U.S. government. The crux of the problem is that the United States arguably has the world's worst tax system for international activity, and this creates conflict with other nations, particularly ones that have good tax ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>A Flat Tax Is the Answer (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14067</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The class-warfare crowd is predictably outraged that Mitt Romney supposedly paid just 13.9 percent of his income to the crowd in Washington. Surely this is a sign of both inequity and iniquity. Meanwhile, previewing a theme for the general election, President Obama said in his State of the Union add...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Will Republicans Hand the Left a VAT Victory? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13979</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview on these pages, presidential candidate Mitt Romney refused to rule out a value-added tax (VAT). He suggested that this hidden form of a national sales tax &#8212; which is embedded in the prices of goods and services during the production process &#8212; might be appropriate, p...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Using Your Tax Dollars to Push for Class Warfare (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13943</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In his class-warfare campaign for higher tax rates and more redistribution, President Obama has picked up support from the usual suspects, including union bosses, left-wingers in Congress and the establishment media. But he&#8217;s also getting help from the bureaucrats at the Organization for Econo...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>After the Supercommittee? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13897</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Taxpayers just dodged a bullet. Even though Republicans on the so-called supercommittee were willing to break their promises and support a tax hike, a 1990-style budget deal was not possible because Democrats demanded too much and offered too little in exchange.

This is good news for fiscal respo...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>A Bad Time to Invest (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13899</link>
				<description><![CDATA[They say that lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math, but there are one-in-a-million people who get lucky and win big. Most of the time, the rest of us are happy for them, particularly since they almost always seem to be of modest means.

But how should we feel about rich people who get...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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