Solution: economic growth, equal opportunity, an efficient and effective temporary safety net.

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Private initiative, incentives and competition leading to capital formation, human capital formation and technological progress. Low inflation, low tax rates. Sensible government spending and regulation.

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It should set sensible rules of the game, a modest hand – neither heavy nor missing – in taxes, spending and regulation, to assure the private economy can prosper.

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The broadest base with the lowest rates to raise only enough revenue to fund the necessary functions of government passing stringent cost-benefit criteria.

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Sometimes this occurs because people – willfully or unwittingly – let politics and ideology get in the way of a fair evaluation of the evidence. But sometimes because there are conflicting bits of evidence.

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