Michael Strain explains in a Bloomberg column why Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to tax wealth falls flat. The tax would apply to fortunes above $50 million, hitting them…
Editors at National Review Online pan the latest proposal from U.S. senator and possible 2020 presidential aspirant Cory Booker. … [H]e’s proposing a sweeping program of wealth redistribution, one that…
The House and Senate are back in session this week. Today the Senate will consider its first judicial nomination since Republicans took over the majority in January. Later this week…
Richard Epstein devotes a column for the Hoover Institution’s “Defining Ideas” to tackling some of the ideas French economist Thomas Piketty has put forward to address income inequality. One of…
While they may tell you there are deep differences in their positions and policies, too many politicians on the left and the right eagerly embrace the coercive force of big…
Incentives induce people to take certain actions, and avoid other actions. When it comes to tax policy and the death tax, wealthy people make financial decisions to avoid it. And…
Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan has been trying to assume red-tinged credentials for her 2014 re-election bid, doing such things as claiming to support the Second Amendment because, well, hunters should…
Gov. Pat McCrory recommends no tax increase in his first budget plan, a stark contrast to the most recent proposals from predecessor Beverly Perdue. That’s one of the key points…
View in your browser. Applying wisdom from the wealthy to government The author of How Rich People Think spent decades interviewing millionaires and establishing what makes their thinking patterns distinct.…
Jim McTague‘s latest edition of the “D.C. Current” column for Barron’s focuses on the unlikely inclusion of a value-added tax in the Republican Party’s national platform. The VAT would be…
Billionaire Warren Buffett and economist/actor Ben Stein have made public pronouncements supporting higher taxes for “the rich.” In a new column posted at Human Events, economist Mark Skousen explains why…
Everyone is so excited. Sister blog Right Angles wonders if President Obama will mention the death tax. Probably not —the focus will be on spending money.