Joe Biden is a tax loophole hypocrite
By Ryan Ellis Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden this week released several years of income tax...
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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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If you’re in the middle class, Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes
By Ryan Ellis Presidential front-runner Joe Biden has made a startling promise if he’s elected president: repeal the entirety of the Tax...
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75 Conservative Groups: “We oppose any carbon tax.”
Dear Members of Congress, We oppose any carbon tax. A carbon tax raises the cost of heating your home in the winter and cooling your home...
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Fund infrastructure by popping the inflation tax
By Ryan Ellis President Trump and congressional Democrats last month pledged to commit $2 trillion in infrastructure projects over the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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