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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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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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Tax Reform 2.0: Indexing Capital Gains
By: Paul Jacobs Indexing capital gains for inflation has long occupied a place on many conservatives’ wish lists. A recent push suggests...
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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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Some conservatives complain, but Brett Kavanaugh was right about Obamacare and taxes
By Ryan Ellis Ever since his name was floated as the front-runner for nomination to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh’s ample body of...
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HSA changes will ease Obamacare’s sticker shock
By: Ryan Ellis Congressional Democrats desperately want to blame Republicans for spiraling health insurance premium increases in the...
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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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CBO Confirms That Mandatory Spending Drives The Budget Deficit
By Ryan Ellis The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released their new “Budget and Economic Outlook” for 2018. As usual, it has...
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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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