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<title><![CDATA[Phil Gramm - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20446.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></description><category domain="20446">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Immigrants America Needs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-immigrants-america-needs-policy-reform-8bf8c942?st=LATiiY</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Limit asylum claims, reduce welfare and open the door to highly skilled foreign nationals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Income Equality Helped Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Working Americans sense that taxes and transfers now leave them little better off than those who work less.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Complete the Escape From Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-complete-the-escape-from-obamacare-1521153431?shareToken=stb6eb47e7fe79451faf7d5d9587c33a8b&amp;reflink=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tax-reform provision repealing the penalty on those who refuse to participate in ObamaCare has freed millions of Americans to escape a system that exploits them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finding America's Lost 3% Growth]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the country can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t grow like it once did, then the American Dream really is irretrievably lost.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reagan Cut Taxes, Revenue Boomed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The model of tax-rate cuts and deregulation can work again to restore faster growth and lift incomes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economic Headwinds Obama Set in Motion]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A booming recovery would force the Treasury and Fed to compete with the private sector for credit.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do You Want Reagan's Economy or Obama's?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The CBO failed to predict the tax-reform boom of the 1980s and the weak recovery in recent years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How 'Border Adjustment' Poisons Tax Reform]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 20% import fee is political industrial policy that will convulse the economy. Better to follow the 1986 model.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Preserve the Filibuster--Then Overcome It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Preserve+the+Filibuster%E2%80%94Then+Overcome+It&amp;oq=Preserve+the+Filibuster%E2%80%94Then+Overcome+It&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.111j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 60-vote threshold is a bulwark of freedom. Instead of nuking it, the GOP should defund Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s agenda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Clinton Would Take Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Where+Clinton+Will+Take+ObamaCare&amp;oq=Where+Clinton+Will+Take+ObamaCare&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.104j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As with HillaryCare, a single payer, national health-care system has always been the goal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Subprime Superhighway]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Subprime+Superhighway&amp;oq=The+Subprime+Superhighway&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. and Europe are lowering capital standards for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'investments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' in public infrastructure'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'ignoring the lessons from 2007-08.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why This Recovery Is So Lousy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Why+This+Recovery+Is+So+Lousy&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=Why+This+Recovery+Is+So+Lousy&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.487j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t believe the line that slow growth is inevitable after financial crises. Bad policies yield bad results.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheer Up, Obama's Legacy Can Be Erased]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Cheer+Up%2C+Obama%E2%80%99s+Legacy+Can+Be+Erased&amp;rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS507US507&amp;oq=Cheer+Up%2C+Obama%E2%80%99s+Legacy+Can+Be+Erased&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i60.126j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama seems to aspire to join Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan as one of the three most transformative presidents of the past hundred years, and by all outward signs he has achieved that goal. But while Roosevelt and Reagan sold their programs to the American people and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Transformed America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=How+Obama+Transformed+America&amp;oq=How+Obama+Transformed+America&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=93&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How did Barack Obama join Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan to become one of the three most transformative presidents in the past century? He was greatly aided by the financial crisis that erupted during the 2008 campaign. This gave the new president a mandate and a large Democratic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank's Nasty Double Whamy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Dodd-Frank%E2%80%99s+Nasty+Double+Whammy&amp;rlz=1CAHPZT_enUS646US646&amp;oq=Dodd-Frank%E2%80%99s+Nasty+Double+Whammy&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=0&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial law, the causes and effects of the failed economic recovery are apparent throughout the banking system. The Federal Reserve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s monetary easing has inflated bank reserves, but lending has barely increased. Today banks maintain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With the Golden Goose?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=What%E2%80%99s+Wrong+With+the+Golden+Goose%3F&amp;oq=What%E2%80%99s+Wrong+With+the+Golden+Goose%3F&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.111j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8#</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Obama recovery began in the second quarter of 2009, public and private projections of economic growth have consistently overestimated actual performance. Six years later, projections of prosperity being just around the corner have given way to a debate over whether the U.S. has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Simple Cure for Obamacare: Freedom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On March 4 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, with a decision expected in late June. If the court strikes down the payment of government subsidies to those who bought health insurance on the federal exchange, Republicans will at last have a real opportunity to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Democrats vs. Middle Class]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;es_th=1&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Senate%20Democrats%20vs.%20the%20Middle%20Class</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 3, 2008, seven new Democratic senators were elected, giving Democrats 58 votes. Eight months later, with the Minnesota Senate race settled and Arlen Specter having switched parties, Democrats secured the 60th vote to overcome filibusters and impose absolute control over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A 2014 Health-Care Strategy: Freedom]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contradictory rulings this week by the D.C. and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals mean that ObamaCare will probably return to the Supreme Court. The crucial issue is whether the government can subsidize premiums for health insurance bought on federal exchanges, though the Affordable Care...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the Sequester Scare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's message could not be clearer: Life as we know it in America will change dramatically on March 1, when automatic cuts are imposed to achieve $85 billion in government-spending reductions. Furloughed government employees, flight delays and criminals set free are among the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Multiple Distortions of Wind Subsidies]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal subsidies for new wind-power generation will end on Dec. 31 unless they are renewed by Congress. For the sake of our economy and the smooth operation of the energy market, Congress should let the subsidies lapse. They waste taxpayer money, subvert the allocation of capital, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Growth Discount]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Had the U.S. economy recovered from the current recession the way it bounced back from the other 10 recessions since World War II, our per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) would be $3,553 higher than it is today, and 11.9 million more Americans would be employed.Those startling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Echoes of the Great Depression]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This may not be your grandfather's Great Depression, but many aspects of today's situation would remind him of the 1930s. If the recession that officially ended a year ago feels uncomfortably surreal to you yet familiar to him, it's probably because the recovery went missing.During the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Debate Over ObamaCare is Just Beginning]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Gramm</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For every dollar's worth of health care that Americans received last year, they paid a dime and somebody else paid 90 cents. If you bought food the way you buy health care'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'where 90% of everything you put in your basket was paid for by your grocery insurance policy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'you would eat...]]></description>
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