CFE News | Center for a Free Economy

CENTER FOR A FREE ECONOMY NEWS

The Center for a Free Economy is actively advocating for common sense legislation that puts taxpayers first.

See below for a recent CFE news.

More Money to the IRS for Predatory Audits? Hell, No

Jul 13
4 min

More Money to the IRS for Predatory Audits? Hell, No

(Jirapong Manustrong/Getty Images) By Ryan Ellis Every other week, it seems, the leftist tax-exempt nonprofit Pro Publica (which poses as...

13 views0 comments

CFE Launches Video Series "So Here's The Good News"

Center for a Free Economy

Jun 8
1 min

CFE Launches Video Series "So Here's The Good News"

On June 9, Center for a Free Economy (CFE) launched So Here’s the Good News, a video series designed to simplify tax policy with real...

69 views0 comments

CFE President Ryan Ellis Featured on The Larry O’Connor Show

Center for a Free Economy

May 17
1 min

CFE President Ryan Ellis Featured on The Larry O’Connor Show

On May 14, CFE President Ryan Ellis was featured on The Larry O’Connor Show as a kick-off for Tax Day 2021. The two started by discussing...

13 views0 comments

Coalition Letter Opposes H.R.3 to Protect American Patients

Center for a Free Economy

May 17
1 min

Coalition Letter Opposes H.R.3 to Protect American Patients

Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to Leader Schumer, Speaker...

143 views0 comments

Coalition Letter Opposes $15 Minimum Wage

Center for a Free Economy

Feb 2
1 min

Coalition Letter Opposes $15 Minimum Wage

Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter rejecting proposals to increase the federal minimum...

23 views0 comments

California protected the freedom to work, now it's time to go national

Center for a Free Economy

Nov 18, 2020
4 min

California protected the freedom to work, now it's time to go national

By Ryan Ellis Every election has lessons that can be drawn from the results. Some are more obvious than others. When historians look back...

21 views0 comments

Joint Letter in Support of the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Act, S. 4708

Center for a Free Economy

Sep 25, 2020
1 min

Joint Letter in Support of the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Act, S. 4708

Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter supporting the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and...

25 views0 comments

Joint Letter Supporting Language to Protect Freelance Economy

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 30, 2020
1 min

Joint Letter Supporting Language to Protect Freelance Economy

Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter supporting language in the Republican COVID-19 relief...

19 views0 comments

86% of Seniors want Rebate Reform According to Polling by CFE

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 24, 2020
1 min

86% of Seniors want Rebate Reform According to Polling by CFE

The Center for a Free Economy commissioned a poll by McLaughlin Associates of 1000 likely voters over the age of 65. We found that 86...

13 views0 comments

Democrats try to sneak ‘Green New Deal’ through tax code

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 6, 2020
4 min

Democrats try to sneak ‘Green New Deal’ through tax code

By: Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, House Democrats have begun to signal how they would govern if given unified control of the federal...

11 views0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Jun 29, 2020
4 min

Delay July’s Tax Day tidal wave

By: Ryan Ellis The month of July brings with it this year a tidal wave of tax payments owed by employers and families to the IRS and...

1 view0 comments

Three simple rules for Congress in the new COVID-19 relief bill

Center for a Free Economy

Jun 22, 2020
4 min

Three simple rules for Congress in the new COVID-19 relief bill

By: Ryan Ellis Congress is usually not very good at basic lessons of economics. In fact, simple arithmetic is usually challenging for...

2 views0 comments

Don’t let private health insurance be a coronavirus victim

Center for a Free Economy

May 24, 2020
4 min

Don’t let private health insurance be a coronavirus victim

By: Ryan Ellis No one will know until final reports are in, but our best guess at the moment is that about 36 million people have lost...

2 views0 comments

Don’t bail out Big Insurance in coronavirus legislation

Center for a Free Economy

May 11, 2020
4 min

Don’t bail out Big Insurance in coronavirus legislation

By: Ryan Ellis Millions of people have found a simultaneously grim yet welcome surprise in their mailboxes of late: rebate checks from...

5 views0 comments

Trump’s socialist drug-pricing proposal remains on ice. It should stay that way

Center for a Free Economy

Feb 11, 2020
4 min

Trump’s socialist drug-pricing proposal remains on ice. It should stay that way

By: Ryan Ellis When President Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address in early February, there was a universal expectation...

6 views0 comments

Conservative Groups Urge Trump and Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare

Center for a Free Economy

Feb 4, 2020
1 min

Conservative Groups Urge Trump and Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare

The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...

15 views0 comments

The shortsightedness of big government conservatism

Center for a Free Economy

Dec 12, 2019
3 min

The shortsightedness of big government conservatism

By: Ryan Ellis Over the past week, conservatives and libertarians online have been fighting over whether it’s a good idea for the federal...

3 views0 comments

75 Conservative Groups Urge Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare

Center for a Free Economy

Dec 2, 2019
1 min

75 Conservative Groups Urge Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare

The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...

3 views0 comments

CFE joins five organizations opposing bailout for renewable energy

Center for a Free Economy

Nov 22, 2019
1 min

CFE joins five organizations opposing bailout for renewable energy

This week, the Center for a Free Economy joined five other free market champions to demand that Congress not give a bailout to renewable...

4 views0 comments

House conservatives offer seniors better healthcare options with nothing taken away

Center for a Free Economy

Nov 19, 2019
4 min

House conservatives offer seniors better healthcare options with nothing taken away

By: Ryan Ellis An emerging axiom in politics is that the political party that is trying to take healthcare choices away from people...

4 views0 comments

A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love

Center for a Free Economy

Sep 10, 2019
3 min

A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love

By: Ryan Ellis When it comes to any issue, especially healthcare, there is very little bipartisan commonsense cooperation in Washington...

3 views0 comments

Indexing capital gains would be a game changer

Center for a Free Economy

Aug 27, 2019
3 min

Indexing capital gains would be a game changer

By Grover Norquist It is wrong to tax inflation. Last week, President Trump agreed. He endorsed the idea of indexing capital gains so...

2 views0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 16, 2019
3 min

The USMCA trade deal is a big tax cut

By Ryan Ellis Congress has been sitting on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, for months. A badly needed update to...

1 view0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 11, 2019
4 min

Joe Biden is a tax loophole hypocrite

By Ryan Ellis Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden this week released several years of income tax...

4 views0 comments

3 easy ways for conservatives to improve health savings accounts

Center for a Free Economy

Jul 11, 2019
4 min

3 easy ways for conservatives to improve health savings accounts

By Ryan Ellis The White House this week is hosting a listening session with conservatives on “Building Great Healthcare in America.”...

1 view0 comments

If you’re in the middle class, Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes

Center for a Free Economy

Jun 24, 2019
4 min

If you’re in the middle class, Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes

By Ryan Ellis Presidential front-runner Joe Biden has made a startling promise if he’s elected president: repeal the entirety of the Tax...

3 views0 comments

75 Conservative Groups: “We oppose any carbon tax.”

Center for a Free Economy

Jun 10, 2019
3 min

75 Conservative Groups: “We oppose any carbon tax.”

Dear Members of Congress, We oppose any carbon tax. A carbon tax raises the cost of heating your home in the winter and cooling your home...

3 views0 comments

Fund infrastructure by popping the inflation tax

Center for a Free Economy

May 15, 2019
3 min

Fund infrastructure by popping the inflation tax

By Ryan Ellis President Trump and congressional Democrats last month pledged to commit $2 trillion in infrastructure projects over the...

0 views0 comments

Larry Kudlow Should Get President Trump to Index Capital Gains to Inflation

Center for a Free Economy

May 9, 2019
4 min

Larry Kudlow Should Get President Trump to Index Capital Gains to Inflation

By Ryan Ellis It was reported today that Larry Kudlow will be named the new director of the National Economic Council at the White House....

0 views0 comments

The Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Rates For Small Businesses And Flow Through Firms

Center for a Free Economy

May 9, 2019
7 min

The Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Rates For Small Businesses And Flow Through Firms

By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. Senate will consider their version of fundamental tax reform. A key area of debate here has been the...

3 views0 comments

CFE leads letter urges reappointment of Puerto Rico Oversight Board

Center for a Free Economy

Apr 16, 2019
0 min

CFE leads letter urges reappointment of Puerto Rico Oversight Board

0 views0 comments

IWF Leads Coalition Letter Against a New Payroll Tax and New Paid Leave Entitlement Program

Center for a Free Economy

Apr 1, 2019
3 min

IWF Leads Coalition Letter Against a New Payroll Tax and New Paid Leave Entitlement Program

Independent Women’s Forum today led a coalition of 33 freedom movement organizations and activists united against a new payroll tax and...

0 views0 comments

Bill Burr Is Right About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Tax Rates

Center for a Free Economy

Apr 1, 2019
4 min

Bill Burr Is Right About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Tax Rates

By Ryan Ellis Comedian Bill Burr this week went off on a totally not safe for work rant about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to...

2 views0 comments

Don’t listen to Kamala Harris about your tax refund

Center for a Free Economy

Feb 13, 2019
4 min

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...

0 views0 comments

New Tax Withholding Tables Are a Down Payment on Big Middle Class Tax Cuts

Center for a Free Economy

Oct 25, 2018
3 min

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...

0 views0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Oct 23, 2018
4 min

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....

0 views0 comments

Conservative Coalition Supports Tax Reform 2.0 Legislation

Center for a Free Economy

Sep 25, 2018
4 min

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...

2 views0 comments

Blue states whined about tax reform, but they’re actually being helped

Center for a Free Economy

Sep 12, 2018
4 min

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...

1 view0 comments

Trump Needs to Stop Taking Bad Trade Advice from Liberal Dem Peter Navarro

Center for a Free Economy

Aug 24, 2018
3 min

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...

2 views0 comments

Not just Mr. Moneybags: Ending the capital gains inflation tax helps ordinary Americans too

Center for a Free Economy

Aug 8, 2018
4 min

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...

0 views0 comments

House Democratic Tax Plan Foreshadowed in Sixth District of Illinois

Center for a Free Economy

May 21, 2018
6 min

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,...

0 views0 comments

Marco Rubio and Supply Siders Need to Work Together to Successfully Pass Tax Laws

Center for a Free Economy

May 7, 2018
3 min

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...

2 views0 comments

Top Ten IRS Reforms the U.S. House of Representatives Will Consider During Tax Week

Center for a Free Economy

Apr 17, 2018
4 min

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...

0 views0 comments

CBO Confirms That Mandatory Spending Drives The Budget Deficit

Center for a Free Economy

Apr 10, 2018
3 min

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...

1 view0 comments

Congress Should Make Middle Class Tax Extenders Permanent

Center for a Free Economy

Mar 14, 2018
4 min

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...

0 views0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Feb 21, 2018
3 min

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...

0 views0 comments

Center for a Free Economy

Jan 22, 2018
3 min

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...

0 views0 comments

There Is No Last Minute Real Estate Perk in Tax Reform

Center for a Free Economy

Dec 18, 2017
5 min

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...

0 views0 comments

There Is No “California Problem” To Fix in Tax Reform

Center for a Free Economy

Dec 7, 2017
3 min

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...

1 view0 comments

Ted Cruz’s 529 Education Savings Amendment to Tax Reform Is A Big Win for Families

Center for a Free Economy

Dec 5, 2017
3 min

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....

0 views0 comments