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Thursday, October 24, 2013

In budget fight, GOP should target corporate welfare

By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | OCTOBER 22, 2013

Congress’s next tax and spending fight will take place in a special conference of budget leaders from the House and Senate. Both parties can play their traditional role, with Democrats demanding tax hikes and defense cuts while Republicans demand tax cuts and domestic-spending cuts. Alternatively, Republicans could try something different: Demand cuts in corporate welfare, insist any tax hikes start with loophole-closing and concentrate tax cuts on the middle class.

If Republicans set free-market populist goals in the budget conference, they will be on the right side of both policy and politics -- with the added benefit of forcing President Obama to reveal himself as a corporatist. Corporate welfare should be the first spending on the chopping block. Corporate welfare costs taxpayers nearly $100 billion a year, according to a study by the Cato Institute…..ToRead More……

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