We should reduce Social Security benefits for middle- and high-income earners to encourage more working and saving—and free up the government to focus on the daunting challenges of Medicare and Medicaid.

Shifting the tax burden to older workers would allow the young to save more, invest more, pay down debts, and put the United States on a firmer fiscal footing.

The Bradford X tax offers an attractive, if little-known, form of progressive consumption taxation.

Although the pay-go rule will probably be manageable this year, how will it fare in 2008?

Robust, growing, resilient economies have been critical to success in long-term security confrontations in the past, and they are likely to be of greater importance in the war on terror.