{"id":14545,"date":"2024-08-28T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T14:22:32","slug":"a-jd-vance-aligned-think-tank-is-stirring-the-pot-with-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14545","title":{"rendered":"A JD Vance-aligned think tank is stirring the pot with conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;American Compass&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/americancompass.org\/rebuilding-american-capitalism\/foreword\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">makes the case<\/a>&nbsp;that adherence to tax cuts, deregulation and free trade have been disastrous economic policy and that government can make capitalism work better for workers and families. It calls for more restrictions on trade with China, using public capital to stoke investments in critical industries, supporting organized labor and banning corporate share buybacks. (A spokesperson for Republicans on the House select committee on China said the group has been \u201ca strong and effective advocate for common-sense policies to stop enabling our foremost adversary.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cass&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/will-trump-ii-see-the-return-of-fiscal-conservatism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote last month<\/a>&nbsp;that the 2017 Trump tax cuts were \u201can expensive failure.\u201d American Compass argues that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-money\/2024\/06\/05\/the-rights-case-for-tax-hikes-00161672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tax increases as well as spending cuts<\/a>&nbsp;are needed to tame the deficit, and it released a survey showing Republican support.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/gop-economics-american-compass-00171010\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/gop-economics-american-compass-00171010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;American Compass makes the case that adherence to tax cuts, deregulation and free trade have been disastrous economic policy and that government can make capitalism work better for workers and families. It calls for more restrictions on trade with China, using public capital to stoke investments in critical industries, supporting organized labor and banning corporate share buybacks. (A spokesperson for Republicans on the House select committee on China said the group has been \u201ca strong and effective advocate for common-sense policies to stop enabling our foremost adversary.\u201d)<br \/>\nCass wrote last month that the 2017 Trump tax cuts were \u201can expensive failure.\u201d American Compass argues that tax increases as well as spending cuts are needed to tame the deficit, and it released a survey showing Republican support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/25\/gop-economics-american-compass-00171010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7,278,2082,141,2081],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-jd-vance","tag-taxes","tag-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14546,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}