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							<title><![CDATA[Wanted: A President Who Will Embrace the Spending Challenge]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Election season is getting into gear, and that means politicians of all stripes making promises about what they'll do for the American people if elected or reelected. I'd like to hear promises to get government out of the way and allow entrepreneurship and market competition to spur...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Railroads Are Overwhelmingly Safe, but Congress Wants More]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10% about making the world better and safer. The rest is at least 45% theater and 45% catering to special interest groups. Further evidence for my assessment comes from the recent grandstanding in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Championing Opportunity Is a Winning Strategy for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/09/championing_opportunity_is_a_winning_strategy_for_democrats_148168.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today's political parties lack ideas. The Republicans define themselves as opponents of Democrats. Yet many of the GOP economic policy positions resemble, with minor variations, those of Democrats. Meanwhile, the Democrats repeat the same simplistic refrain: "solve" every problem with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Budget Deficit Victory Lap Is Unearned and Unjustified]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/06/17/bidens_budget_deficit_victory_lap_is_unearned_and_unjustified_147762.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden is taking victory laps for last year's reduced budget deficit. No one would be happier than me to see this number fall in a significant way. But the decline has nothing to do with the president's policies, and it changes little about the dangers of our fiscal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Some Clarity on President Trump's Economic Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/30/some_clarity_on_president_trumps_economic_policies_141133.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a fact that President Donald Trump has a remarkably large number of supporters among the voters and pundits who label themselves as "free market." They usually say something like, "Sure, I don't like his trade and immigration policies, but the rest are good." I disagree.
With the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Healthcare's Future Is Innovation, Not Government Control]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/archives/2019/02/14/the-future-of-health-care-is-innovation</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Pioneering treatments may require equally pioneering payment models.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Should Root Out Government Waste]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/03/05/trump_should_expand_audits_of_programs_that_waste_taxpayers_funds_133254.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Disaster Recovery, the Best Knowledge Is Local Knowledge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/13/for_disaster_recovery_the_best_knowledge_is_local_knowledge_132050.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Veronica de Rugy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As residents all along the Southeastern coast start to put their lives back together after a devastating visit by Hurricane Matthew, these communities will face unique challenges. Not surprisingly, the calls for billions of dollars in federal government aid are already coming out loud...]]></description>
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