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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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Will the Trump Tax Bill Drive Down Ticket Sales?
By: David Waldstein Tyler Graffeo, the president of Interstate Truck Center, generated a lot of business while entertaining clients in...
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Capital Gains Taxes Should Be Indexed to Inflation
By Alex Fornwalt Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) recently introduced bill, H.R. 6444, is the latest effort to index capital gains taxes to...
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Washington needs to end hidden inflation tax on our capital gains
By Jenny Beth Martin The federal government indexes Social Security payments to inflation, to ensure that beneficiary payments are not...
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Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s dumb carbon tax on manufacturers (and the rest of us)
By: Ryan Ellis Next week, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., will introduce a costly carbon tax bill on manufacturers, and by extension all of...
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Trump Alone Can Cut Taxes
By Kimberley A. Strassel What if President Trump had the authority—on his own—to enact a second powerful tax reform? He does. The...
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Treasury Chief Calls Changing Capital-GainsRule a Job for Congress First
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, urged by conservatives to use his department’s regulatory power to adjust capital-gains...
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House Democratic Tax Plan Foreshadowed in Sixth District of Illinois
By Ryan Ellis House Democrats may be running on a tax platform consisting of uncapping the SALT deduction for wealthy households,...
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Marco Rubio and Supply Siders Need to Work Together to Successfully Pass Tax Laws
By Ryan Ellis It’s fair to say that comments made by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) about the corporate tax reform in the Tax Cuts and Jobs...
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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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Top Ten IRS Reforms the U.S. House of Representatives Will Consider During Tax Week
By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a series of bipartisan IRS structural reform bills. While many of...
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Tax Reform’s Phase Two Should Make Middle Class Tax Cuts Permanent
By Ryan Ellis There’s been a lot of talk lately about a “phase two” of tax reform to be considered later this year in the U.S. House of...
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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. Because...
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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 that...
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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 91.7% 152,300,000...
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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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