EconomyCommentary
President Donald Trump is right. Washington is a swamp, infested with special-interest groups feverishly working to keep their place in the capital bog. Our current… Read More
EconomyNews
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri—Mary Beth Hartman has never called herself a feminist. “But I do believe that women can compete with men, and I don’t believe that… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The proposed House and Senate tax reform bills that lawmakers are currently merging into one would mean tax cuts for most Americans. Nevertheless, change—even good… Read More
EconomyCommentary
On Monday night, the GOP tax bill took another step toward President Donald Trump’s desk when Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., named nine… Read More
EconomyNews
Following the Senate’s 51-49 early Saturday morning vote to pass Republicans’ tax reform overhaul, the legislation will move to conference where the House and Senate… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare’s individual mandate to buy federally standardized health insurance is a tax, courtesy of the Supreme Court’s elaborate exercise in creative writing: National Federation of… Read More
EconomyNews
Hundreds of businesses and organizations have publicly declared their support for the Senate’s tax reform package, one of the many factors that led to the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The House and Senate have now each passed different versions of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Both bills are a big improvement to America’s out-of-date… Read More
EconomyCommentary
There’s a key reason two estimates of the economic effects of the GOP tax bill show only small effects: they’re largely ignoring the primary mechanism… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Senate Democrats who fret over the distributional effects of tax cuts should thank their GOP colleagues for giving them the chance this week to vote… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Senate version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has successfully passed both the Finance and Budget committees and is now on the Senate… Read More
EconomyNews
As the Senate prepares to vote on a tax reform package, President Donald Trump called the vote a “moment of truth.” “In the coming days,… Read More
EconomyNews
With no Democrat senators signalling support for the tax reform bill and 51 votes needed to pass the measure, every Republican senator’s vote matters. With… Read More
EducationCommentary
Liberal elites at universities, who rarely meet a tax they don’t like, finally seem to have found one tax proposal that is unacceptable to them…. Read More
EconomyNews
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri— Noah Alldredge, a small business owner in America’s heartland, is speaking out about how he and his employees could benefit from tax reform.
EconomyCommentary
As president of the State Financial Officers Foundation, I have the privilege of working with some of the nation’s sharpest financial officers. They are not… Read More
EconomyCommentary
After nearly 11 months of careening from one disappointment to another, Congress is on the verge of a major breakthrough on tax reform. I won’t… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Obamacare’s individual mandate survived the Supreme Court’s 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act solely because the court interpreted the insurance requirement as a “tax.”… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
How will you fare if the GOP tax plan is enacted? Well, on net, most Americans will see a significant tax cut under the proposed… Read More
EconomyNews
The chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers says if corporate tax cuts are signed into law, the gross domestic product of the United States… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Senate Finance Committee passed a version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last week, which now heads to the full Senate floor for… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Republicans have long been known as “the stupid party.” They do stupid things, such as waiting until mid-November to push a must-pass tax cut that… Read More
EconomyNews
New Jersey is potentially holding off hiking its income tax due to the possibility of the state and local tax deduction being eliminated in the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Democrats, of course, oppose the tax cuts moving through Congress. They believe government knows how to spend your money better than you do. But what… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Editor’s note: With tax reform now in the Senate’s hands following passage of a House bill to overhaul the tax code, it’s a good time… Read More
EconomyCommentary
EconomyNews
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., spoke to The Daily Signal’s Genevieve Wood earlier this month, before the tax reform bill passed the House, about how eliminating… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The House passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Thursday, a bill that would reform the tax code by lowering marginal… Read More
EconomyNews
Following the House’s 227-205 vote Thursday to pass its version of the Republicans’ tax reform bill, all eyes now move to the Senate, where a… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The House has now passed its version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Senate is still working on the final details of its… Read More
