EconomyCommentary
Keep the Trump Tax Cuts So American Families Can Thrive
Hide your wallets, taxes could be going up after Christmas! One of President Donald Trump’s greatest economic accomplishments of his first term, the Tax Cuts… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Top Task for Team Trump
President Donald Trump has entered his second term with a bold agenda and unprecedentedly rapid action. In the first month of his presidency, he signed… Read More
EconomyCommentary
4 Charts Show Why Congress Must Embrace Spending Restraint
This year, Congress is expected to pass at least one major legislative package through what is known as the reconciliation process, which enables easier passage… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
Trump Unveils Strategy to Pass Huge Parts of His Agenda
The American people delivered President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda a mandate in November’s presidential election, and with Republicans in control of the House, Senate, and… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Like Your Taxes Low? Trump and Republicans Want to Keep It That Way
Sunday is the seven-year anniversary of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a landmark piece of legislation that contributed to historic economic prosperity under the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Atop Agenda for 119th Congress: Lock in Trump Tax Cuts
A top priority for the incoming 119th Congress and the second Trump administration should be to extend and build upon President-elect Donald Trump’s 2017 tax… Read More
No Tax on Tips
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Will Donald Trump end tax on tips? Will… Read More
PoliticsNews
‘Bunch of BS’: Attendee at Trump’s CEO Meeting Refutes Media Reports
Former President Donald Trump delivered a “focused” pitch to America’s top CEOs and received a loud ovation at the conclusion of his Business Roundtable remarks… Read More
EconomyCommentary
If You Ran Your Family Budget Like the Government, You’d Be Broke: ‘Tax Cut’ Edition
The bipartisan Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act might sound good on the surface. A closer look, however, reveals that the legislation is… Read More
LawCommentary
Supreme Court Case Has Democrats Salivating at Possibility of Green Light for Wealth Taxes
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a little case with potentially huge implications. The high court’s eventual decision in Moore v. USA could… Read More
EconomyNews
Cruz Pushes to Make the Tax Cuts Permanent
Republicans are looking to make the tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act President Donald Trump signed into law Dec. 22 permanent. “We’ve… Read More
Is a Tax Cut Always a Good Thing?
According to Friday’s Washington Post, the Administration is considering a new, short-term tax cut. Should conservatives cheer? As a matter of principle, there are at… Read More
Obama Ducks Responsibility for Washington’s Spending Binge
In a recent “60 Minutes” interview, host Steve Kroft primed President Obama with this statement: “Most Americans think we’re spending too much money.” To which… Read More
Latinos Favor Tax Cuts for All, Including the Wealthy
Are Hispanics—the fastest growing demographic in the country— on their way to becoming a reliably voting liberal bloc? Not so fast, especially considering a recent… Read More
Sweden Is Not Just About ABBA and IKEA Anymore
Sweden is known for, among other things, Swedish meatballs, the pop group ABBA, and IKEA. Well, here is another thing that Sweden should be recognized… Read More
New Poll Shows Most Voters Want Lower Taxes, Even on the Rich
To hear liberals tell the tale, you might think that most Americans want to tax the pants off businesses and wealthy Americans, making them pay… Read More
Tax Cuts and Supply-Side Effects
Lawmakers have recently paid lip service to cutting the corporate tax rate to help boost economic growth. Doing so would be good policy, but it’s… Read More
Semantics: “New Revenues” v. Tax Increases
If you’re following the evolving terms of the budget debate, the hip new phrase is “new revenues.” It sounds so much cooler than “tax increases.”… Read More
Continual Keynesian Collapse
The Keynesian policy of trying to increase total i.e. “aggregate” demand – either by having government spend, or by cutting taxes just to leave more… Read More
Senate Republicans Set to Bargain Away Our National Security
One month ago today, millions of Americans voted to reject big-government and the backroom deals that defined the Obama presidency. Now, some of the same… Read More
Obama Opts for Politics Over Jobs, The Times Joins In
Today’s New York Times editorial on President Obama’s Cleveland political diatribe-cum-economic speech got one point right — Obama “took too long to engage this debate.” The… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Desperate Times and Desperate Measures
Faced with predictions of staggering losses for his party in November’s midterm elections, President Barack Obama today appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and said,… Read More
Greenspan’s Economics Trips on His Naïve Politics, Again
Alan Greenspan recently gave a Bloomberg News interview with Judy Woodruff. His agenda was redemption. Hers was politics. She got what she wanted. In the… Read More
Why Obamanomics Has Failed – Annotated
Carnegie Mellon University economics professor and American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar Allan Meltzer has a must read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal titled: Why… Read More
Tax Hikes Wrong Route to Take for Deficit Reduction Commission
Earlier this year, after Congress passed an increase in the debt ceiling, was deliberating over a trillion plus health care package, and the President’s Budget… Read More
Tax Hikes for the Middle Class?
Remember the promise of the 2008 Presidential election? No family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase Well, now, the option to tax… Read More
New Study Shows Tax Cuts Most Effective Stimulus
The failure of the stimulus package to create jobs and generate economic growth becomes more apparent each day – despite preposterous claims from the White… Read More
Morning Bell: The Largest Wasted Tax Cut in History
Apparently the Obama Administration is not happy about how a major portion of their economic stimulus package is being covered. The Atlantic reports that the… Read More
$116 Billion in Wasted Temporary Tax Cuts
The Wall Street Journal reports today: The Obama administration is betting that an extra $8 a week in most Americans’ paychecks will boost consumer spending… Read More
When a ‘Tax Cut’ Isn’t a Tax Cut
“So my whole goal over the next four years,” President Barack Obama said Monday night at the end of his first prime-time White House news… Read More
