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FISCAL POLICY

Getting fiscal policy right is the heart of getting government economic policies right. That means a pro-growth tax code which raises enough money for modest and well-designed government spending programs. Essential to fiscal policy is health care policy, which today dominates both tax and spending outlooks.

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Larry Kudlow Should Get President Trump to Index Capital Gains to Inflation

By Ryan Ellis It was reported today that Larry Kudlow will be named the new director of the National Economic Council at the White House....

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The Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Rates For Small Businesses And Flow Through Firms

By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. Senate will consider their version of fundamental tax reform. A key area of debate here has been the...

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IWF Leads Coalition Letter Against a New Payroll Tax and New Paid Leave Entitlement Program

Independent Women’s Forum today led a coalition of 33 freedom movement organizations and activists united against a new payroll tax and...

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Bill Burr Is Right About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Tax Rates

By Ryan Ellis Comedian Bill Burr this week went off on a totally not safe for work rant about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to...

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Don’t listen to Kamala Harris about your tax refund

By Ryan Ellis 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on Monday tweeted out that the middle class got their...

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Tax Reform Simplifies the Code for Middle Class but Future Reforms Should Kill Crony Capitalism

By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee this week held a hearing on the initial impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017....

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The Politics and Economics of the Capital Gain Tax

By Alan Reynolds The Treasury Department is said to be studying the idea of providing some sort of inflation-protection (indexing) for...

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New Tax Withholding Tables Are a Down Payment on Big Middle Class Tax Cuts

By Ryan Ellis The new IRS payroll withholding tables are out, and they are predictably being downplayed by the same mainstream media that...

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Trump’s middle-class tax cut election surprise

By Ryan Ellis Tax nerds in the Beltway went wild this past weekend with President Trump’s announcement of a new middle-class tax cut....

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Conservative Coalition Supports Tax Reform 2.0 Legislation

Americans for Tax Reform today led a coalition of 58 conservative groups and activists in support of the Tax Reform 2.0 legislation set...

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Blue states whined about tax reform, but they’re actually being helped

By Ryan Ellis The House of Representatives will soon consider what has come to be known as “ Tax Cuts 2.0.”Among other things, this...

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Newt Gingrich: Why THIS must happen next in Trump’s economic revolution

By Newt Gingrich The next big step in President Trump’s economic revolution should be to index the capital gains tax. This bold step...

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Letter encouraging adjusting the calculation of capital gains to account for inflation

From Juanita Duggan The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C....

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Not just Mr. Moneybags: Ending the capital gains inflation tax helps ordinary Americans too

By Ryan Ellis In the past week, there has been a flurry of press accounts that President Trump has directed the Treasury Department to...

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It's reg time

By Bernie Becker IT’S RAINING REGS, HALLELUJAH: A couple of sets of proposed tax rules last week, including some new guidance to cap off...

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The Trump Administration Should Index Capital Gains To Inflation

By Adam Brandon In 2016, economists scoffed at the notion made by then-candidate Donald Trump that he wanted "to establish a national...

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The Politics and Economics of the Capital Gain Tax

By Alan Reynolds The Treasury Department is said to be studying the idea of providing some sort of inflation-protection (indexing) for...

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Here’s everything wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s delusional tax reform ideas

By: Ryan Ellis Over the weekend, a video made the rounds of “Democratic socialist” congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...

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Trump asked Treasury to look into capital gains tax cut, Sanders says

By Naomi Jagoda White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that President Trump has asked the Treasury Department to...

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More fun with indexing

By: Bernie Becker CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP: It might take awhile to figure out how seriously President Donald Trump’s administration is...

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