Richard Stern

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Richard Stern is director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.

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    4 Ways Trump Is Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back

    Richard Stern
    “Reindustrialize.” It’s the latest rallying cry gaining traction, with both the Left and the Right calling for policy reforms to modernize American industry and finally bring back manufacturing jobs to the American heartland. But President Donald Trump has been sounding this alarm for years, long before it became politically fashionable. In line with this vision,…
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    • Opinion

    Making America Great Means Making Buildings Beautiful
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Congress, Don’t Expand the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
    Ethan Xu
    • Opinion

    California’s Homeless Crisis Shows the Need for Government Accountability
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    The High Cost of Big Government—A Heist on Taxpayers
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Trump’s Tariffs Are Only the Start. Congress Must Now Cut Taxes and Regulations.
    Kevin Roberts
    • Opinion

    Why Are Americans Still Feeling the Economic Squeeze?
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    30 Years of Inflation Crammed Into Less Than 18 Months
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    5 Things You Need to Know About the Fed’s Rate Cut
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Energy Innovation Is Key to Prosperity
    Miles Pollard
    • Opinion

    July 4th: Celebrating a Nation Founded on Protecting Freedom, Wealth of Its People
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Wrecking the American Dream: The Problem With Today’s Economy
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    A Tax Policy Trojan Horse for Welfare Expansion and Inflationary Deficits
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    NO, THANKS: Bidenomics Is a Big Turkey, and Not Only at Thanksgiving
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    How Washington’s $7.5 Trillion Deficit Spending Spree is Bankrupting America
    David Ditch
    • Opinion

    Leftists’ Wealth Tax Proposal Means Poorer Standard of Living for All
    Parker Sheppard
    • Opinion

    We Traded a Debt Crisis for an Inflation Crisis, and Now We Have Both
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Biden and Media Claim Sky Is Falling, Pressure Congress to Keep Growing Debt
    Preston Brashers
    • Opinion

    What’s Wrong and What’s Right With Debt Ceiling Deal
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    8 Things to Know About Biden’s Fiscal 2024 Budget, From Bad to Worse
    David Ditch
    • Opinion

    18 Absurdities of the McConnell-Schumer Omnibus Spending Bill
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Enough Is Enough: Senate Republicans Shouldn’t Cave and Pass Massive Spending Bill
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Biden’s Not So Subtle Lurch Toward Dictatorship
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    7 Ways Democrats’ ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Wallop Your Wallet
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Here’s the Truth About What ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Would Do
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    A Recession by Any Other Name Is Still a Terrible Economy
    Miles Pollard
    • Opinion

    ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Is Euphemism for Big Government Socialism, Higher Prices
    Daren Bakst
    • Opinion

    House Democrats Ride ‘Minibus’ to Inflation, Economic Ruin
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Biden’s Newest ‘Build Back Better’ Boondoggle Would Worsen Inflationary Squeeze on Middle America
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    11 Ways Republican Study Committee Budget Is Blueprint to Save America
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    CBO Forecasts an Economic Nightmare for All Americans
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    8 Things New COVID-19 Corporate Bailout Bill Gets Wrong
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Another COVID-19 Spending Bill Would Fuel More Inflationary Fire
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Taxes Are 1 Plague That Won’t Pass Over Your Home
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Government’s Bar Tab Starts Long Before Tax Day
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    5 Big Problems With Biden’s Big-Government Budget
    Matthew Dickerson
    • Opinion

    Congress Is Writing Blank Check for Big Government, Socialist Tax-and-Spend Spree
    Matthew Dickerson
    • Opinion

    The Road to Ruin Is Paved With Gimmicks
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    Why Debt Limit Is Indispensable Tool to Ensure Limited Government
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    10 Ways Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ Bill Would Kill Economic Opportunity
    Richard Stern
    • Opinion

    8 Things You Need to Know About Democrats’ Tax Increase Bill
    Matthew Dickerson
    • Opinion

    Earmarks, a Favorite Tool of Central Planners, Are Making a Comeback Under Biden
    Richard Stern
    • News

    9 Things You Need to Know About the Budget Resolution’s Reckless Tax and Spending Spree
    Matthew Dickerson
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