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Even progressives should rethink corporate income taxes
The corporate income tax, which Biden wants to hike to fund his American Jobs Plan, is volative and complex. There are better ways to use business to collect government revenue.
Republicans support free markets, except when they don’t
Two obscure bills in the Arizona Legislature illustrate the crosscurrents in the GOP’s relationship to business and support for free-market principles.
Will there be a second tea party movement?
Biden is spending even more than Obama. But if there is a second tea party movement, GOP is more poorly positioned to benefit from it.
Brnovich’s tax-cut lawsuit premature
The AG is right that Biden’s Covid response plan attempt to ban state tax cuts is a constitutional overreach. But the challenge isn’t yet ripe. And, for Arizona, probably unnecessary.
Democrats should rise to the ‘scorched-earth Senate’ threat
If Democrats abolish the virtual filibuster, GOP leader Mitch McConnell threatens to use other rules to bring the Senate to a grinding halt. Democrats should change those rules as well.
Union bill puts Sinema and Kelly in a political vise
Will Sinema and Kelly really vote to nullify two provisions of the Arizona Constitution, duly approved by a majority of the state’s voters?
Biden’s partial realism about Russia and China
The Biden administration has been refreshingly, and surprisingly, blunt about the adversarial relationship with Russia and China. But expecting refurbished alliances to do much to confront or contain them isn’t realistic.
Republicans shouldn’t block legal status for dreamers
Republicans have the poltical upper hand on immigration. But that could change if they stymie legal status for young adults who were brought here illegally as children. Opposition statements by Arizona GOP House members are revealing.
If Biden wants amnesty, he needs to enforce existing immigration laws
Whatever you want to call conditions on the southern border, that and lax enforcement in the interior make public acceptance of an amnesty less likely.