American Opportunity


American Opportunity is a conservative think tank founded by Paul Weyrich. The full name of the organization is American Opportunity and Security but its DBA name is American Opportunity Foundation.
Based in Alexandria Virginia it is a nonprofit research and education organization. From 2010 through 2018 the organization had been headed by former Governor of Virginia Jim Gilmore. The current CEO is Dan Kreske.

Activities

Under Weyrich, the foundation focused on cultural concerns, such as forming the "next conservatism", anti-abortion, public transportation concerns, and Fourth-generation warfare. Under Gilmore, with the aid of former Reagan-era Department of the Treasury official Gary Robbins, American Opportunity has focused on lowering taxes across the board, with the aim of completely removing all taxes on shareholder dividends and capital gains, as well as removing the inheritance tax entirely.