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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 Won’t Happen Without A Budget Resolution
By Ryan Ellis Summer has turned to autumn in our nation’s capital. Everyone is back to work, Beltway traffic is as bad as normal, and...
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Low Rates Shouldn’t Compete With Full Business Expensing In Tax Reform
By Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, there has been a disturbing trend in conservative tax reform circles. At issue is a supposed tension...
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Index capital gains for inflation, Mr. President
President Donald Trump 's pledge to "Make America Great Again" requires nothing less than reigniting economic growth and prosperity....
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NTU's Pete Sepp Outlines Tax Reform
By Pete Sepp To : The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury 1500...
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Big Six Kill The Border Adjustable Tax And Full Business Expensing
By Ryan Ellis A long-awaited statement came out today from the “Big Six” negotiating comprehensive tax reform (House Speaker Paul Ryan,...
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New Senate Healthcare Bill Slams Small Business Owners And Savers
By Ryan Ellis Senate Republicans today released version 2.0 of their Obamacare “repeal and replace” bill, the Better Care Reconciliation...
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Gas Tax Hikes vs Public Private Partnerships Heat Up in Summer Driving Season
By Ryan Ellis All across America, people are paying more at the pump. A cursory search of “gas tax hike” on Google News revealed higher...
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Moderate GOP Senators Threaten To Kill Capital Gains Tax Cut In Healthcare Bill
By Ryan Ellis There has been a lot of loose talk recently both in the conservative healthcare policy community and in the GOP Senate...
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Senate Obamacare Repeal And Replace Bill Cuts Taxes By $700 Billion
By Ryan Ellis The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released their score of the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017” (BCRA) ....
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Zombie Obama Regulations Keep The Death Tax Kicking, Among Other Maladies
By: Ryan Ellis During the first half of the first year of the Trump Administration, the signature achievement of the new government was...
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Paul Ryan Lays Out His Game Plan To Pass Tax Reform This Year
By Ryan Ellis House Speaker Paul Ryan today delivered a keynote-style speech on tax reform before the National Association of...
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Senate GOP Healthcare Tax Credit Must Avoid Obamacare’s Old Traps
By Ryan Ellis This week, the Senate GOP is reportedly putting pen to paper on their version of “repeal and replace” of Obamacare. One of...
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Three Tax Notes On The Trump Budget
By Ryan Ellis President Trump revealed his first full budget Wednesday morning, and most of the attention rightly focuses on the very...
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Obamacare Repeal Sweetened to Include Retroactive Capital Gains Tax Cut
By Ryan Ellis Big news tonight broken by Jennifer Haberkorn, Rachael Bade, and Josh Dawsey of Politico . Over the weekend, the House...
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Obamacare Repeal and Replace Bill Cuts Taxes by Nearly $1 Trillion
By Ryan Ellis The official score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was released today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)....
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Tax Relief In Obamacare Repeal Threatened By Elizabeth Warren Power Grab
By Ryan Ellis One of the best conservative elements of Obamacare repeal in general and the House-passed “American Health Care Act” in...
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Obamacare Repeal’s Tax Credit Is Actually School Vouchers for Health Care
By Ryan Ellis One of the most controversial provisions (for conservatives) of the American Health Care Act (aka Obamacare repeal and...
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Senate Should Not Leave Taxpayers Behind In Obamacare Repeal
By Ryan Ellis Where’s Jack Kemp when you need him? Heck, for that matter where is Bill Roth or Phil Gramm? The biggest tax cut the U.S....
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The Trump Administration Should Index the Capital Gains Tax to Inflation
By Alexander Hendrie President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised he will enact pro-growth changes to the tax code to increase economic...
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Trump Can Radically Reform Taxes For Small Business And Families Without Congress
By Ryan Ellis This week, the Trump tax plan outline was released. I did a write up on it here . Like most tax plans, the president’s...
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