Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute surveys economic policies that could boost American prosperity. [T]he strength and endurance of Trump’s legacy will depend on whether his policies advance long-term…
Ryan Ellis writes for National Review Online about an important step Congress can take to help the American economy. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Jason Smith (R., Mo.) and…
The following is the transcript of a talk given on April 16, 2018 at Western Carolina University for WCU’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise: In any discussion of…
Gene Epstein of Barron’s looks at American economic performance during the first full calendar quarter of President Trump’s administration. Epstein concludes “it was not stellar.” The growth of gross domestic…
Edward Hamberger writes at the Washington Examiner about one area in which American infrastructure stands out. If death and taxes are certainties in life, so too now is the fact…
Jason Russell of the Washington Examiner offers suggestions for D.C. politicians who would like to boost the nation’s sluggish economic growth. Option 1 Reduce the corporate income tax to 25…
Do you know of a business in Western North Carolina that, with no government grants, loans, incentives, etc. is undertaking improvements valued at $1 million or more? Tell me about…
The Harvard Business Review offers up seven facts about corporate taxes. Economists hate the corporate income tax. Double taxation is one issue. Another is that a tax on corporations is generally a…
While the John Locke Foundation has advocated that North Carolina move toward a form of consumption tax known as the USA Tax, Ramesh Ponnuru writes for Bloomberg.com that the federal…
Elections have consequences, and the choice we faced in this past presidential election was either to step back from the brink of reckless regulation, deficit spending, and tax hikes, or…
USA Today focuses in this piece on the gigantic federal tax hike on tobacco, imposed by President Obama in 2009. The tax went from 39 cents to $1.09 on each…
You’ll have to pick up a hard copy of the latest Fortune to read Nina Easton‘s argument for a “radical tax plan the left and right can agree on,” namely…