July 20, 2023
From the start of calendar year 2021 to today, 48 states and the District of Columbia have cut taxes. The only holdouts are Alaska and...
July 19, 2023
No Labels Fiscal Policy Reads More Like No Details The bipartisan group No Labels is getting a lot of attention these days because it says...
July 14, 2023
It appears that the green energy tax breaks included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are more popular among businesses than Congress imagined when...
July 5, 2023
Charles and Kathleen Moore of Washington State view "income" differently. If we care about sustaining an efficient, fair tax code, we should all try to understand why.
July 3, 2023
The US Supreme Court recently agreed to review the case of Moore v. United States . The question presented sounds dry and technical: “Whether the...
June 29, 2023
Huge tax and other subsidies for sports facilities are almost never good ideas. But two new, and especially egregious, examples of how public funds can...
June 27, 2023
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Biden recently agreed to cut back on some of the increased IRS funding enacted through last year’s Inflation...
June 26, 2023
About one year ago, the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization . Since then,...
June 26, 2023
The recent compromise between Republicans and Democrats on extending the federal debt limit was hailed for avoiding the disaster of a default, demonstrating that both...
June 21, 2023
In recent years, businesses have been able to fully deduct expenses related to research and development (R&D) in the year the investment was made (often...