Before commenting further I need to understand your knowledge, understanding and opinion of the following think tanks: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, and CATO.
Why? Because it concerns me that at least two of these think dates does not, to me, fit your unflaterring opinion of known “right wing” think tanks.
First of all, all of them are generic think tanks, not made up of members of the Judeo-Christian small business community. While our think tank would indeed venture into other fields besides business, for example, education, family, government insolvency, etc., our motiviation for going delving into other topics will be out of concern for the relationship they have with Judeo-Christian small business, specifically. Also, all of these organizations refuse to acknowledge the influence of islam inside American government, political and business structures and refuse to acknowledge the islamic position of intolerance towards non-muslims in society, and the general islamic long-term strategy of fundamentally changing America into a muslim state. They also do not acknowledge the preponderance of the radical New Left and non-governmental organizations, such as Open Society, that are anti-nation sovereignty, and therefore anti American small business in their advocacy.
When I say Judeo-Christian Small Business, that's exactly what I mean.
AEI
They espouse policies that basically help big business growth to expand the tax base and leave the door open for government to spend as it wants on its programs, while trimming Social Security and Medicare outlays so Treasury bonds the trust funds hold never have to be redeemed. This is a lie, then, where $2.5 trillion in Treasuries held by the trust funds are then worthless paper. Anything that stealthily allows government spending on government employees, vendors, contractors IS the problem, not something to be simply "slowed down" until the economy fairy comes and revives the economy. On the other article, Chinese investment in America is a pro-big finance idea that is diametrically opposed to the interests of America in general, and American small business. The second article disgustingly suggests that the source of more than half the hacks on my server would somehow be a good owner of U.S. telecom interests.
Social Security "never added a dime to the deficit." Really?
The White House and Congress repel Chinese investment
Heritage:
They are more aligned with Judeo-Christian Small Business in overall principles. The only difference is perhaps a watered-down approach that is necessary in polite DC circles. Things like this: advocating that the Federal Education department be downsized instead of shutdownsized. History shows us that trimming budgets in DC is but a momentary fantasy of change, and even complete department elimination often results in only department renaming. Small business is smart enough to say "show me the terminations in the payroll system, I want those people gone".
Click link labeled "Foreign Aid Policy in 2012 Elections"
Click link labeled "Education Policy in 2012 Elections"
CATO:
CATO is libertarian-leaning as opposed to Judeo-Christian oriented, so it would differ with the think tank in at least two areas: that it is not as strong advocate of a strong military (so we have a nation to do business in) and that it talks a lot about drug legalization. There was an excellent
video posted here on FR yesterday by Steven Crowder on the fallacies of such positions. Pot smoking is definitely not a pro-small business stance. CATO advocacy in terms of their economics is more along the lines of small business than some conservative think tanks.