@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: Today’s progressive rant that income inequality is an existential threat is unpersuasive and untrue, write Phil Gramm and @AmityShlaes on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: Republican House members can learn from the success of the Reagan era. As one of the authors of that success, I offer some advice, writes Phil Gramm. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: Hispanics are one of the fastest growing census demographics in America, and their realignment away from the Democratic Party is a political earthquake in the making, write Phil Gramm and John Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Student debt forgiveness is a political bribe. Buying votes is the only possible justification for such an unfair giveaway of taxpayer money, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: The primary objective of the U.S., its allies and Taiwan isn’t to repel a Chinese attack but to prevent it from ever occurring. Effective deterrence is the key to national security, write Phil Gramm and @SenatorWicker. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Biden’s approach to the economy is already causing prices to rise. It will soon stifle growth as well, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Amazon, FedEx and Facebook are but a tiny fraction of a long list of progeny produced by lifting the heavy hand of Progressive Era regulation. We reimpose that regulation at our own peril, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: The rise of income inequality is an illusion created by the Census Bureau’s failure to account for taxes and welfare, write Phil Gramm and John Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: The prosperity of our nation and the functioning of our democracy often depends on how a president responds to voters’ rejection of their agenda, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Biden has betrayed his moderate backers by embracing Sanders’s spending and Warren’s antibusiness bent, writes Phil Gramm on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: No matter what Democrats say, the U.S. cares for the poor and retains a highly progressive tax system, write Phil Gramm and John F. Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Frank Capra’s "It’s a Wonderful Life" contains important messages about freedom, write Phil Gramm and Michael Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: In the short term, Biden’s regulatory tsunami will fuel inflation and make a recession more likely. In the long term, it could smother America’s productivity, wages and living standards, write Phil Gramm and @SenToomey. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: The SEC’s mandate doesn’t include telling CEOs how to run their companies and investors how to invest, write Phil Gramm and @HesterPeirce on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: Hispanics are one of the fastest growing census demographics in America, and their realignment away from the Democratic Party is a political earthquake in the making, write Phil Gramm and John Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Stakeholder capitalism imperils more than prosperity, it imperils democracy itself. ESG advocates would return society to the communal and stagnant world of the Dark Ages, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: With the consumer-welfare standard uprooted, antitrust would become a license to control the American economy, capriciously rewarding favored businesses and punishing disfavored ones, write Phil Gramm and @CSWilsonFTC on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: The explosion in federal spending is the primary driving force behind surging inflation, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Nobody pays federal wealth taxes in America, but ProPublica and its Democratic allies are using stolen tax returns to try to change that, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: All politicians, especially Republicans, need to learn from the economic and political failure of protectionism in the Trump era, write Phil Gramm and @SenToomey on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Joe Biden is doubling down on the failed economic policies of the Obama years. Expect the same result, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Trump’s economic agenda worked well until the pandemic, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. Voters must decide whether to return to the policies that brought growth or to the Obama-Biden policies that produced stagnation. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: No matter what Democrats say, the U.S. cares for the poor and retains a highly progressive tax system, write Phil Gramm and John F. Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Official statistics massively overstate income inequality by leaving out taxes and most welfare payments, write Phil Gramm and John F. Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: The White House’s championing of the global minimum tax reveals how committed the administration is to pushing big government everywhere and how desperate it is to raise U.S. corporate taxes, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: The American Dream is of individual upward mobility, not social progress toward uniformity, write Phil Gramm and John Early. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: The official poverty estimate by the Census Bureau not only overstates the level of poverty, but it distorts the policy debate, write Phil Gramm and John Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Stakeholder capitalism imperils more than prosperity, it imperils democracy itself. ESG advocates would return society to the communal and stagnant world of the Dark Ages, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: It is time to revitalize the system that made America the world’s economic colossus, won the Cold War, and moved billions out of poverty worldwide, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: While every inflation warning light is flashing red, why is there so little concern in Washington about what a growing number of Americans fear is a building crisis? ask Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Biden’s policies that penalize production are creating shortages of workers and goods, while inflation reappears, write Phil Gramm and @SenRickScott on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Disposable real per capita income rose 5.5% in 2020, the highest rate since 1984, due to transfer payments. More "stimulus" might make prices soar, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Any action Congress wishes to take on big tech should come in the form of legislation, rather than antitrust enforcement, write Phil Gramm and Jerry Ellig on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: America and Britain, united in their devotion to liberty, should abolish tariffs, quotas and set-asides, write Phil Gramm and @SenToomey on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: The use of political intimidation to allocate capital is an assault on economic efficiency and freedom, write Phil Gramm and Michael Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Official statistics massively overstate income inequality by leaving out taxes and most welfare payments, write Phil Gramm and John F. Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: Losses at SVB, Signature and other banks reflect the risk from borrowing short and lending long, write Charles W. Calomiris and Phil Gramm on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago From @WSJopinion: If the new Republican majority can pass its own funding bills, they can define the differences between the parties and win the spending debate, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Biden may think he can tax, spend and regulate America out of the inflation and recession. History suggests otherwise, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Stakeholder capitalism imperils more than prosperity, it imperils democracy itself. ESG advocates would return society to the communal and stagnant world of the Dark Ages, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago From @WSJopinion: Everyone and everything is responsible except the government spending that’s actually fueling it, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Though few have noticed, the central bank is already slowing the growth of the money supply, write Phil Gramm and Thomas R. Saving on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: The rise of income inequality is an illusion created by the Census Bureau’s failure to account for taxes and welfare, write Phil Gramm and John Early on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago From @WSJopinion: Like the 1994 election, voters have chosen divided government—and issued a mandate for compromise, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: A Democratic majority in the Senate would be a rubber stamp for a ruinous economic agenda, write Phil Gramm and Mike Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: Federal borrowing this year is set to pass 20% of U.S. GDP. Government risks consuming the oxygen that a powerful recovery will need, write Phil Gramm and Michael Solon. on.wsj.com
@WSJ 5 years ago From @WSJopinion: The use of political intimidation to allocate capital is an assault on economic efficiency and freedom, write Phil Gramm and Michael Solon on.wsj.com
@WSJ 6 years ago From @WSJopinion: History shows little evidence that breaking up big tech companies will benefit consumers, write Phil Gramm and @ElligJerry on.wsj.com