GOP leaders don’t have the votes, and their alternatives aren’t any better. So, pull the plug on an Obamacare replacement and adopt these three more limited measures instead.
Justices treat property rights as second class
In Murr v. Wisconsin, even the dissenters fail to give property rights the stature intended by the founders. Fortunately, Arizona voters have.
Medicaid hysteria is overwrought
The actual likely effects of GOP Obamacare replacements on Arizona’s Medicaid program don’t justify all the hysteria.
Phoenix should fix its structural deficit
By deferring pension payments, the City of Phoenix is kicking a structural deficit down the road and making it bigger.
GOP attempts too much in Obamacare replacement
Congressional Republicans should have considered fixing the individual health insurance market and Medicaid reform separately.
Sense and nonsense about in-state tuition for Dreamers
Small differences in reasoning in the recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision can have big consequences for how much Dreamers have to pay in tuition.
Dial back the blame game after violent events
After the GOP baseball shooting, political discourse won’t become more civil. But perhaps the blame game after violent events will be dialed back a bit.
My fantasy: Lawmakers enact a Prop. 301 replacement
There are big problems appropriating through ballot measures, as illustrated by a proposal from prominent businessmen to significantly increase the dedicated education sales tax.
Our children’s future? It’s up to them
The future of Millennials and following generations is neither preordained nor unduly constrained. They have a broad range of choices that will determine their path.
Politicians, not banks, are the real bailout problem
The House GOP alternative to Dodd-Frank is an improvement. But only smaller banks will truly end too big to fail.