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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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Congress Should Make Middle Class Tax Extenders Permanent
By Ryan Ellis The House Ways and Means Committee today will conduct a hearing on tax provisions which expired at the end of 2017....
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Democrats Release Tax Hike Plan
By: Ryan Ellis This week, Congressional Democrats released a detailed tax hike plan that they promised to implement if given majority...
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Getting “Real” by Indexing Capital Gains for Inflation
By Stephen J. Entin Key Findings Inflation-related gains on the sale of assets are not a real increase in wealth. Indexing the purchase...
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Stock Buybacks Make Your 401(k) Bigger
By Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, Americans have begun to realize that Congress and President Trump have cut their taxes. According to a...
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European Tax Bureaucrats Are Raising Taxes on U.S. Companies and Undermining Tax Reform
By: Ryan Ellis In the wake of recent tax reform in the United States, one might be tempted to think that a relatively quiet time of...
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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 ...
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There Is No Last Minute Real Estate Perk in Tax Reform
By Ryan Ellis In the last couple of days, a rumor has swirled around the tax world that a special eleventh hour windfall was given to...
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There Is No “California Problem” To Fix in Tax Reform
By Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, some House Republicans have said there is a “ California problem ” in tax reform. They are mistaken. The...
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Ted Cruz’s 529 Education Savings Amendment to Tax Reform Is A Big Win for Families
By Ryan Ellis On Friday night, the United States Senate passed their version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act , better known as tax reform....
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Marco Rubio’s Criminally Negligent Child Credit Amendment to Tax Reform
By Ryan Ellis This evening, the U.S. Senate voted along party lines to proceed to consideration of fundamental tax reform. This kicked...
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Nine In Ten Will Claim The Standard Deduction Under Tax Reform According To New White House Study
By Ryan Ellis One quick side dish for Thanksgiving Week: the percentage of Americans who itemize their deductions will go way down under...
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Senate Tax Reform Bill Results in a More Progressive Tax Code Than Today
By Ryan Ellis The most important tax reform metric for liberals and Democrats, besides perhaps the total level of federal taxation, is...
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Individual Mandate Repeal Is a Middle Class Tax Cut
By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee announced today that it would add to the Senate tax reform bill a zeroing out of Obamacare’s...
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Top Five Ways the Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Taxes for Middle Class Families
By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee this week will report out a tax reform bill that cuts taxes for the middle class. The...
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House Tax Reform Bill Improves Education Policy
By Ryan Ellis H.R. 1, the the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” will be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives later this week. There’s...
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Virtually All Middle Class Taxpayers to See Tax Cut in Senate Tax Plan
By Ryan Ellis <$200k Fam. % Tax Cut to <$100Tax % Tax Hike Tax Hike Households Tax Hike Cut Fam. 2019 166,084,000 ...
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Everything That’s In The Senate Tax Reform Bill
By Ryan Ellis Business Tax Reform Corporate income tax rate Lowered from 35 percent today, the highest rate in the developed world when...
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Tax Reform Means Tax Cuts for All Americans Regardless of Income
By Ryan Ellis One of the strongest positive elements of tax reform is that it features net tax relief for all Americans at all levels of...
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House Tax Reform Bill Is Good for Middle Class Families and Pro-Growth
By Ryan Ellis The U.S. House of Representatives is out with their draft version of tax reform today. If you want to get into the weeds,...
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Death Tax Repeal Is Key To Tax Reform’s Political And Economic Future
By Ryan Ellis When the GOP released their “Framework” for tax reform last month, official Washington got excited that they could finally...
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