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Long-Term Budgeting, Obama-Style

James Capretta , National Review Online

President Obama’s 2012 budget has rightly been lambasted as completely detached from fiscal and economic reality. Even under the budget’s own rosy assumptions, the country would accumulate $7.2 trillion in deficits over the coming decade. Under more realistic assumptions, it’s a plan for trill .. submitted 05/21/12

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There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’

James Capretta , National Review Online

Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic. After decades of legislators’ piling countless new programs on top of old ones, and two years of the most intense tax-and .. submitted 05/21/12

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The Anatomy of a Hostile Government Takeover

James Capretta , National Review Online

During the long national debate over the future of American health care, President Obama frequently chastised his opponents for launching exaggerated attacks on his plan for “reform.” He took particular exception to the criticism that the changes he was pushing amounted to a government takeover .. submitted 05/21/12