The left has taken to attacking the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, perhaps because it's easier than defending the Biden administration's policies. But I worked at The Heritage Foundation from 2005 to 2012, and I can tell you the whole thing is a bit overblown.

I was a big fan of the book full of policy proposals, then known as "Mandate for Leadership," and now commonly referred to as Project 2025. Every four years, Heritage would update it with new proposals and retool old ones for current circumstances. It was not all that well known outside of Capitol Hill and the White House, nor even in those hallways. Generally few of the ideas in it received any follow-up.

Now the book is being painted as the agenda for all Republicans. But it was never considered that in the past.

Then again, I have my own ideas that will make Washington more responsive to the American electorate. So here is my personal Project 2025.

All these ideas will restore confidence in government and reduce the rampant alienation that most people feel when they read about the goings on in faraway Washington, D.C. And I bet they will be more popular than that other Project 2025.

First, politicians should shrink the government in order to grow the private sector. One way to make the federal government smaller is to tax all Americans at a single rate.

The Tax Policy Center argues that........

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