Liberty
Two Federal Business Tax Hikes Lie Ahead This Year
Kyle Pomerleau of the American Enterprise Institute offers a warning about pending changes in federal tax law. Two major changes to the business tax base enacted as part of the…
Home mortgage interest deduction
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Revaluing home ownership
Has government policy, in promoting home ownership, actually made it more difficult to own a home? It’s almost a ridiculous question: who ever heard of a government policy having unintended…
Liberty
Red and Blue Taxes
Counties that voted for Donald Trump will not lose as many tax breaks as those that voted for Hillary Clinton. This is visible among some of the surprising similarities and…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
What You Need to Know about the Federal Tax Reform Proposal
Most conservative and libertarian groups opposed ObamaCare repeal efforts because they did not go far enough to dismantle state intervention in health care. Rand Paul took the same line. John…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Mortgage Interest Deduction
Jonathan Gruber may not have the best reputation for open and honest policy-making because of his role in creating ObamaCare, but he continues to provide interesting economic analysis. His latest…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Spending more through loopholes than appropriations
Thomas Donlan uses the recent tax-filing deadline as an excuse to remind us in a Barron’s editorial commentary about one disturbing element of the federal tax code. Hidden in the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A chief obstacle in the battle against government bloat
If you’ve spent much time with a public choice economist, you’ve likely heard about “concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.” The idea is that many indefensible government programs, subsidies, and tax…
Liberty
ObamaSpeak: “spending reductions in the tax code”
From President Obama today (emphasis is mine): Essentially tossing aside the budget he submitted just two months ago, Mr. Obama called for much deeper defense and domestic spending cuts and…
Liberty
Ponnuru pushes payroll tax revisions
Ramesh Ponnuru and Reihan Salam believe Republicans need to focus more attention on policies that will attract support from working-class voters. In an article for the latest National Review, they…
Liberty
The Income Tax Hike in Plain Sight
This is fascinating. The meta-story surrounding the tax “reform” proposal — broadened, lower sales tax, sin tax hikes, income tax rate cuts — is 1000% wrong. Real income tax rates…
Liberty
Dingell vs. the Burbs
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) wants Congress to use the tax code to punish those with houses bigger than John Dingell deems acceptable. Who is imagining an ongoing government effort to…
Liberty
Mortgage-Interest Deduction
I missed this report by the Tax Foundation a month ago. The NYTimes had an article Monday. Expensive and sad social/economic policy.