Monthly Archives: June 2021

WSJ: ProPublica’s Plan for a Poorer America

A federal wealth tax would only make it harder for people with big dreams to make them a reality. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon June 16, 2021 6:16 pm ET ProPublica’s “blockbuster” story showing that the wealthy “pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if...
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WSJ: The Filibuster Helps Nobody, and That Means You

With simple majority rule in the Senate, politics would consume the lives of ordinary Americans. By Mike Solon and Bill Greene June 20, 2021 5:57 pm ET As Democrats clamor to end the Senate filibuster, they insist that the filibuster is an ancient relic that nobody needs, that serves nobody’s agenda and that...
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