Marco Rubio
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Kyle Maichle: Compact for America
by Donald Kendal January 12, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kyle Maichle, project manager for Constitutional Reform at The Heartland Institute joins Host Donald Kendal to talk about the Compact for America.
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Budgets/TaxesLegal AffairsPolitics
Marco Rubio Endorses an Article V Convention
by Kyle Maichle January 6, 2016On December 30, presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced he would endorse an Article V convention for the purpose of enacting a federal balanced budget amendment, along with term…
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – John C. Goodman: Marco Rubio’s Health Care Plan Analyzed
by Ken Artz September 7, 2015In today’s edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. John C. Goodman, a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, president of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, and author of the widely acclaimed, new Independent book, A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, joins managing editor Kenneth Artz to discuss Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s health care plan which has a refundable tax credit as its centerpiece.
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EducationFeaturedPolitics
Common Core: Quick Guide to the 2016 Candidates
by Lennie Jarratt June 3, 2015New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has reversed course on Common Core State Standards and is calling for a review of the standards by a group of teachers and parents.…
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EconomicsFeaturedPolitics
Compassionate Conservatives Are Confusing A Slogan With An Agenda
by Benjamin Domenech January 13, 2014If your approach to conservative governance would justify the Great Society, it’s usually a sign you took a wrong turn somewhere.
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PoliticsRandom
Mike Lee And The GOP’s Lessons From The Godfather
by Benjamin Domenech October 30, 2013All that’s needed is for the right leaders to step forward who understand the importance of all of this, who aren’t all soft answers or hard-edged knife fighters. Why do we accept the premise that the GOP either needs to be all Fredo or all Sonny?
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Rubio was originally sold to the Republican base as not just a good speaker or an inspiring life story, but as a change agent, one of the few politicians who could actually move the country right. His acceptance of the Gang of Eight’s approach to wheeling and dealing their way to a 1,000+ page immigration measure… is as typical Washington as it gets.
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The sudden deluge of scandal which dominates the discussion around President Obama’s administration at the moment has handed a golden opportunity to Republicans. Yet if they aren’t careful, they’ll squander…
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The problem with the Buckley Rule is that it requires you to evaluate two attributes – ideology and electability – when at least one and occasionally both are relative measures.…
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In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and…