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Let’s Cancel the ‘Holidays’

This is a display of back to school pens and backpacks in a Target store in Pittsburgh Wednesday, July 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sales-tax breaks are popular, but they’re lousy fiscal policy.

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We’re No. 17.5! We’re No. 17.5!

The latest research from the American Legislative Exchange Council offers more cause for optimism.

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The Drafting of America’s First Constitutions

The Drafting of America's First Constitutions Southwest Public Policy Institute

From our friends at the Federalist Society. The extraordinary decade from 1776 to 1787 marked the most substantial period of constitution writing in the history of the world. For the first time, men were able to determine their own systems of government; but the process involved considerable trial and error, leading to the creation of […]