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Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

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I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

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An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

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Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

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A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

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The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.

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Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

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If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

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The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.

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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

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Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.

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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

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The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

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Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change.

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Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

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If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

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Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

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For any politician who didn't enter office a wealthy man, nothing says 'I take bribes' like a Rolex watch.

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There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

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I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.

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The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

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Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.

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If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones.

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What is the engine that drives economic growth in an ideopolis? The university.

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Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.

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Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.

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There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

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Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

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Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

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If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

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What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.

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The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend such loans to members of the military. But civilians remain fair game.

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The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.

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Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

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