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The midterms are over, meaning the 2016 White House race has begun. Here's my bold prediction: Almost all the GOP presidential contenders will offer a big tax-cut plan. Of course they will. Income tax cuts have been the defining issue of the modern Republican Party since the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. As conservative political reporter Robert Novak once declared, "God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." And if history is a reliable guide, most of those tax-cut plans will focus on cutting personal taxes so the...

t's The Larry Kudlow Show! The suspect has been caught but there's still lots of information that we want to know. Today on the show, Larry talks with Gary Berntsen,author of "Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden & al-Qaeda." Also on the show is Steven Emerson, executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism. Frank Gaffney, founder & president of Center for Security Policy. More great guests include Joe diGenova, founding partner of diGenova & Toensing and Art Hogan, managing director, head of equity research at Lazard Capital Markets. John Batchelor, host of the John Batchelor Radio Show joins Larry....

If the sluggish U.S. economy wasn’t reason enough for tax reform, the ongoing IRS scandal demonstrates how a devilishly complex tax code enables government mischief. But the flat tax — a longtime policy goal for many on the right — isn’t the realistic answer to either problem. Flat-tax advocates see headlines about an out-of-control IRS as a chance to put the idea back on the public-policy radar in way it hasn’t been since the 1990s. “This is why you need a flat tax,” Wall Street Journal economics writer Stephen Moore told Fox News recently. “If you get rid of two-thirds...

Jimmy P. at the DNC—Another staple of the many convention speeches is the claim that Obamanomics, via government "investment," will create five million "green collar" jobs. But here's the thing: These jobs are, for the most part, not the kind of gigs many middle class folks would have much interest in doing: bike repair, hazardous material cleanup, landscaping, tree cutting, attic insulation, large-scale green waste composting. Then again, these jobs really aren't geared toward the middle class to begin with. A 2007 report by the city of Berkeley—of course!—described the potential pool of applicants for green collar jobs this way:...