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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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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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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‘Medicare for All’ Would Be Terrible for Seniors
By: Chris Pope In a rare op-ed, President Trump recently suggested that “Medicare for All” proposals gaining popularity among Democrats...
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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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Trump Needs to Stop Taking Bad Trade Advice from Liberal Dem Peter Navarro
By: Ryan Ellis Earlier this week, I had the privilege of participating in a telephone town hall with Congressman Peter Roskam and callers...
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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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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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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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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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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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New Tax Break? Trump Administration Considers Indexing Capital Gains For Inflation
By Kelly Phillips Erb Think we’re finished with tax breaks in 2018? Not so fast. Hot on the heels of tax cuts from the Tax Jobs and Cuts...
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Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich
By Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax...
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