MMT’s Big Coin Gambit
From Cato Institute: In a reply to Firestone Philip Wallach, then at Brookings, hit the nail squarely on its head: Even if you think that minting the coin would be legally legitimate in the sense of...
View ArticleNecessary & Proper Episode 37: Can the Other Branches Help Restore Congress?
From The Federalist Society: In this episode we bring you the great discussion we had from the opening panel of the 2019 Legislative Branch Review Conference, held on the Hill in February in...
View ArticleMake Congress (Properly) Political Again
Chris DeMuth’s new essay powerfully and convincingly arguesthat well-functioning representative government is a necessary condition for national cohesion in our democratic age. DeMuth is not...
View ArticleThe Return of William McKinley’s Republican Party
In 1999, Stephen Moore co-founded the Club for Growth, a conservative, pro-business advocacy organization known for its ardent opposition to taxes and regulation. Having worked for the Heritage...
View ArticleOptions for increasing congressional capacity on complex regulatory matters
To: The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress From: Philip Wallach, R Street Institute Reform: Options for Increasing Congressional Capacity on Complex Regulatory...
View ArticleHow can the federal budgeting process be improved?
From Federal News Network: Budgets have always been about values. That’s true for both companies and governments. But the federal budgeting process has, in the view of Philip Wallach, senior fellow...
View ArticleLosing hold of the REINS: How Republicans’ attempt to cut back on regulations...
On March 15, President Trump issued his first veto. Congress had passed a joint resolution of disapproval of his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, using the procedures...
View ArticleEnergy in the Legislature
The Vanishing Congress: Reflections on Politics in Washington is a curious hybrid. It is variously a primer on Congress’s constitutional duties, a scholarly (though note-less) consideration of how it...
View ArticleEditorial: Investments in our infrastructure
From Richmond Times-Dispatch: Layers and layers of approval often are necessary to get projects off the ground.
View ArticleLast Time Congress Got Its Mojo Back
Ever since they retook control of the House of Representatives last November, Democrats have been itching for a proper fight with President Trump. Still, at the behest of their leaders, they’ve avoided...
View ArticleBrookings Papers on Economic Activity
From Project Muse [1]: Editors, Authors, Discussants, Panel Advisers, and Staff for the One Hundred and Fifth Conference Philip Wallach, R Street Institute Endnotes“Project Muse”:...
View ArticleHow Social Security Was Saved—and Might Be Again – The American Interest
Lost amid the impeachment fight and election contests, an epochal moment in the history of America’s welfare state is coming in 2020: For the first time since 1982, the Social Security Trust Fund will...
View ArticleOn Deregulation, Trump Has Achieved Little
One of the first things Donald Trump did as president was to tell a group of business leaders that his administration would “cut regulations by 75 percent. Maybe more.” This was, surely, one of those...
View ArticleTrump Administration Issues Record-Low Number of Regulations Amid Red...
From The Epoch Times [1]: Philip Wallach, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, argued in an op-ed [2] for the National Review that despite the deregulatory efforts of the administration, more...
View ArticleWeek in Review – January 3, 2020
From The Regulatory Review [1]: The Trump Administration has largely failed to deliver on its promise to deconstruct the administrative state, Phillip Wallach [2] of free-market think tank R Street [3]...
View ArticleEditorial: Long fight ahead to subdue overreach
From The Augusta Chronicle [1]: “The 115th Congress took up two major reform statutes,” said Philip Wallach, a policy expert on governance for the R Street Institute think tank, wrote for National...
View ArticleAndrew Yang’s War on Meritocracy
It’s hard not to root for Andrew Yang, whose lack of pretention and sincerity set him apart in the contest for the 2020 Democratic nomination. While other candidates parade their righteous fury, fume...
View ArticleCongress Rebuked but Not Reimagined
“If we break this contract, throw us out. We mean it.” So pronounced the bottom line of a Republican National Committee ad, which laid out the Contract With America to TV Guide readers ahead of the...
View ArticleJust Emote, then Vote Remote
The Future of American Government? “The situation of parliamentarism is critical today because the development of modern mass democracy has made argumentative public discussion an empty formality.” The...
View ArticleWeek in Review – January 3, 2020
From The Regulatory Review [1]: The Trump Administration has largely failed to deliver on its promise to deconstruct the administrative state, Phillip Wallach [2] of free-market think tank R Street [3]...
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