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<title><![CDATA[John Childs - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/41776.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Childs]]></description><category domain="41776">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Tax Tutorial for an Indebted Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/tax-tutorial-indebted-nation</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the outset of his administration, Coolidge and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon hypothesized that lowering marginal tax rates would stimulate economic growth sufficiently that total tax revenues, despite lower rates, would actually increase. History proved them right. And to think...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Risk of Playing by the Rules]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/24/the_risk_of_playing_by_the_rules_150554.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' week Republicans lost one of their precious seats in the House of Representatives reducing their slim majority to near invisibility.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Interestingly, this did not have to happen.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The vacancy giving rise to the special election in New York 3, was intentionally created by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Does the Right Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/01/23/desantis_does_the_right_thing_150370.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To date the 2024 presidential campaign has been notable for its absence of grace or common sense.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Up until DeSantis'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' departure yesterday, the GOP candidates have spent most of their time perfecting the circular firing squad rather than elevating the debate or even improving their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cure for Cancer Postponed, as Biden Opts for Price Controls]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/article/cure-for-cancer-postponed-as-biden-opts-for-medicare-price-controls</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That's one way to put it as the administration names the ten drugs in the first efforts of the government to suppress prices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coolidge's Tax Tutorial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/31/coolidges_tax_tutorial_149562.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is too bad most American historians have such depressive mindsets as illustrated by their insistence on devoting far more attention, as measured in pages, to the 1930s, also known as the Great Depression, than to the Roaring Twenties. While much can be learned from each of these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Insanity--the Political Definition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/24/insanity--the_political_definition_149266.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a familiar, if slightly shopworn, witticism that doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  By that logic nominating Donald Trump as the GOP presidential candidate in 2024 would be insane.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  While history might not exactly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Russia-China Marriage Broker]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/24/the_russia-china_marriage_broker_149024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an open question whether the policies of the Biden Administration do more damage to Russia or the USA.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  But there is no question that they are a gift to China.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Russia is pretty much an energy export economy so when the West cut off its purchases, ever so slowly, Russia...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does America Want Fewer Miracle Drugs?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/26/does_america_want_fewer_miracle_drugs_147952.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Art Laffer so eloquently illustrated with the Laffer curve, if you tax something you get less of it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Whenever you reduce the return on some economic activity whether by taxes, price controls or some other government mischief you will get less of it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  That is an immutable law of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Inflation Opportunity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/article/the-inflation-opportunity</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To beat inflation, why not explore a supply side remedy before unleashing the economic equivalent of chemotherapy?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden: Closet Republican?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/national/joe-biden-closet-republican/92078/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A recent Rasmussen poll discloses that about 50% of the electorate would like to impeach President Biden. The numbers include more than 30% of Democrats and upwards of 40% of independents. This is despite mostly positive coverage from the mainstream]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tale of Two Senators--AZ's Kelly Opts for Early Retirement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/national/tale-of-two-senators/91945/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite being characterized as a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'purple'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' state, Arizona has two blue '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' meaning, Democratic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' senators, Krysten Sinema and Mark Kelly. Yet other than common party affiliation, the difference between them could not be more striking.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP 19 Get Snookered: Better to Delay Dems' Spendfest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/national/gop-19-get-snookered-better-to-delay-democrats/91636/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nineteen Republican Senators, in an effort to burnish their bipartisanship creds, have been snookered into signing onto a quarter of President Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s spending extravaganza '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' with zip in return. Oh, sorry, they did block spending $40 billion on additional IRS agents, or at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Surrender Budget]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nysun.com/national/the-surrender-budget/91531/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden's budget has drawn a lot of flack from conservatives. Larry Kudlow notes that it would put the country on the path to a growth recession. The Wall Street Journal points out that it would essentially require the Federal Reserve to maintain abnormally low interest rates for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Not Equity?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/14/why_not_equity_142661.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Childs</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The traditional, and somewhat unimaginative, official response to financial crises is for the Federal Reserve Bank to lower interest rates. The theory '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s more like a knee-jerk reaction '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' is that cheaper abundant debt will solve the problem. So, while the stock...]]></description>
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