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Another great idea has come out of Congress – reduce the dividends the Federal Reserve banks pay on stocks that private-sector banks hold. This idea would lower the dividend from…
Joseph Lawler reports for the Washington Examiner about efforts in the U.S. House to transform some temporary tax breaks into permanent policy. House Republicans are preparing for an inevitable showdown…
Joseph Lawler of the Washington Examiner reports on some interesting comments from the head of the Congressional Budget Office. Congress’ official budget scorekeeper said Monday that it was up to…
The Washington Examiner reports on retiring U.S. Rep. Dave Camp‘s efforts to secure some measure of tax reform before he leaves Capitol Hill. Both Congress and President Obama say they…
Josh Siegel of the Daily Signal reminds us that no one should expect Michigan Congressman Dave Camp‘s tax reform plan to make any headway during the course of this year.…
… of the sort proposed by Michigan’s Dave Camp, the U.S. House and Senate are engaging in political gamesmanship over corporate taxes. Shocking, indeed. Bloomberg Businessweek offers details. 1. House…
Allan Sloan of Fortune magazine focuses attention in his latest column on Michigan congressman Dave Camp‘s struggles to reach a bipartisan deal on tax reform. Everyone talks about wanting bipartisan…
Jim McTague of Barron’s turns his attention in this week’s “D.C. Current” column to the lengthy tax reform plan Michigan congressman Dave Camp is pushing during his final year on…
While many pundits and prognosticators in Washington are criticizing U.S. Rep. Dave Camp’s tax reform proposal because it would remove too many special giveaways, Barron’s editorial page editor Thomas Donlan…
James McTague of Barron’s has little good to say about Republican congressional leaders’ response to the latest proposal for federal tax reform. The Republican Party demonstrated last week that it…
“I keep waiting, desperately and near hopelessly, for the Left and the media to reach a Niemöller epiphany before it’s too late,” I wrote last June after the IRS abuse…
Thomas Donlan devotes his latest editorial commentary in Barron’s to the perpetual challenge of improving the American income-tax code. [T]he federal income tax has become encrusted with fiscal barnacles. The…