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Taken together, the findings suggest that voters broadly favor a congressional check on presidential tariff authority. Although the survey did not ask voters specifically about the Russia sanctions legislation, its results indicate that, across parties and demographic groups, Americans generally believe presidents should seek Congress's approval before imposing tariffs.

Tariffs are unpopular, and voters clearly support constraining President Trump's authority to impose more. The question before the House in the coming days is whether it should hand a president who has already stretched every tariff statute he could find one more—weeks before an election in which voters have told virtually every pollster who asked that the tariffs have raised prices and harmed the economy.

For the NEA's golden jubilee, this Congress should take up serious reform to ensure, as the 94th Congress tried to, that Americans born today don't live their entire lives under a national emergency.

China's marketization has been successful only because of the growth of the nonstate sector and the evolution of property rights to allow innovation and risk-taking by entrepreneurs. Pioneers like Gu Zhen and Wu Jinglian paved the way for economic liberalization that has allowed millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty. What China needs is more freedom and less state control—greater emancipation of the mind for everyone—so that people can realize their full potential under a genuine rule of law that protects persons and property.

Whether these conclusions apply in markets with only a few firms, where mergers might substantially increase market concentration, is harder to know. But this evidence should still remind antitrust and banking regulators to consider the full range of effects from mergers, not just the impact on concentration per se.

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Childcare is expensive, and proposed policy solutions too often involve increased government spending without addressing the underlying costs.

Flat-tax states grow faster, report higher incomes, see better fiscal outcomes, and protect taxpayers from rate hikes.

The experience of states moving toward flat taxes provides new evidence against that conventional wisdom. Lower, flatter income taxes can coexist with fiscal responsibility while supporting higher income and economic growth. As Washington looks toward the next round of tax reform, states offer an increasingly important model for what broader federal reform could look like.