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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Jim Powell (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Beyond Tea Parties -- A New Way for Taxpayers to Fight Back (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10256</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the more than 100 days since President Obama took office, citizens around the country are doing more to resist the administration's plan for a massive expansion of government. Tea parties and ballot initiatives are among the best-known strategies. Now add independent citizen audits of local gover...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>A Tax Attack on America's Top Companies (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10179</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the name of tax reform, Pres. Barack Obama has announced $190 billion of tax hikes on many of the biggest U.S. employers. By reducing after-tax profits, these tax hikes could hammer stock prices that reflect investor expectations of future profits.

Among the employers in Obama's crosshairs: Ae...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Socking Stocks (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10182</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Just as the economy begins showing glimmers of a turnaround, here comes President Obama with a "tax-reform" effort that's sure to sock the stock prices and after-tax profits of many of the biggest US employers. 

Obama's $190 billion business-tax hike will hit Americans whose jobs and pensions dep...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>U.S.-Run Health Care? Ask a Veteran (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10125</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Continuing problems with government-run health care for military veterans suggests some issues we are likely to face if Congress passes President Barack Obama's plan for government-run health care.

Like other entitlement programs, government-run health care for veterans has expanded rapidly and s...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>How FDR Promoted Price-Gouging (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10078</link>
				<description><![CDATA[During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Americans desperately needed bargains. But President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed laws that forced businesses to charge above-market prices for everything. He made discounting a crime!

FDR did this even though antitrust laws provided penalties for pri...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10078</guid>
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				<title>Government Jobs Don't Cure Depression (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10063</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Reply to Conrad Black

I have very much enjoyed participating in these debates with Conrad Black. He expresses his views forcefully and with conviction, so our exchanges are always lively. They help call attention to ideas that seem to drive Obama-administration policies. I'm surprised at some of ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Conrad Black in Fantasy Land (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10065</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on NRO, Conrad Black continued his crusade to redeem Franklin Delano Roosevelt from those who dare to ask embarrassing questions about the New Deal. Here's the most embarrassing question of all: Why, despite everything FDR tried, did high unemployment persist all through the 1930s?

In t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10065</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Tax Policies to Suck the Life out of the Valley (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10035</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley became famous as a great incubator of partnerships that helped develop companies like Apple, Cisco, eBay, Google, Intel and Sun Microsystems. But if President Barack Obama has his way, Silicon Valley will be hammered.

Obama outlined a budget that would more than double federal taxe...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10035</guid>
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				<title>How Obama's Soak-The-Rich Plan Will End Up Hurting Middle Class (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10022</link>
				<description><![CDATA[President Obama has claimed that his budget goes after the rich who supposedly will pay the cost of his spending extravaganza. But it is already apparent that the rest of us will pay plenty.

Obama is continuing the crusade against offshore tax havens he began as an Illinois senator. He's targetin...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>How Big Government Infrastructure Projects Go Wrong (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10019</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The recently enacted $787 billion "stimulus" program appears to be the down payment on a sweeping "new New Deal" that will include many other ambitious government programs&#8212;including the possible nationalization of health care.

Given the size and scope of such interventions into the economy,...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10019</guid>
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				<title>The 'Old' New Deal Still Isn't Paid For (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9971</link>
				<description><![CDATA[What are we to make of all the talk about a "New New Deal"--starting with the current stimulus package--when we haven't paid for the old New Deal?

During the 1930s, the old New Deal cost about $50 billion in federal expenditures from 1933 to 1940, excluding functions such as the U.S. Post Office ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Nothing to Fear but Roosevelt (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9955</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In Nothing to Fear, New York Times assistant editor Adam Cohen has given us a passionate, even eloquent history of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Hundred Days and the launch of the New Deal. He captures the colorful personalities and legislative battles that transformed America into a welfare state. 
...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9955</guid>
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				<title>Not-So-Great Depression (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9880</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Which U.S. president ranks as America's greatest depression fighter?

Not the fabled Franklin Delano Roosevelt, since unemployment averaged 17 percent through the New Deal period (1933–1940). What banished high unemployment was the conscription of 12 million men into the armed forces during World ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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