Harriet Alexander reports for the DailyMail.com on an unwelcome surprise from the Biden administration. Joe Biden is planning on increasing taxes levied on small businesses – despite explicitly promising on…
A state EITC would inherit the costs of the federal program without adding to the benefits, making it of questionable value. Legislators would get more bang for the buck by…
Well-known leftist politicians are proposing ideas for major income tax hikes, such as adding a new top rate of 70 to 80 percent on the very rich. But JLF’s Roy Cordato…
Paul Romer won the Nobel prize in economics for showing how innovation creates economic growth. A new working paper from Raj Chetty and his colleagues presents a model of how…
Aki Soga of the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press delivers some bad news to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. The boldest ideas tackling inequality are coming from people other than Bernie Sanders…
Reihan Salam of National Review Online points out an interesting dimension of the argument for a much higher top marginal tax rate. One story I’ve often heard on the left…
Brian Riedl uses a National Review Online column to address U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for 70 percent top marginal tax rates. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s call for a 70 percent…
I just came across this summary/comparison of the House and Senate’s tax reform proposals published by Forbes. It is really quite good at laying out the details in a side…
I just came across this summary/comparison of the House and Senate’s tax reform/cut proposals published by Forbes. It is really quite good on laying out the details in a side…
One of the most controversial aspects of federal tax reform has been the proposal to eliminate deductibility of state and local taxes. Some people may have a sense of de…
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s flat-rate income tax promotes economic growth while ensuring that taxpayers with higher incomes pay progressively higher tax rates. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report explains…
Is the the idea of a “progressive flat tax” an oxymoron? The typical argument for a broad-based flat-rate income tax, also called a single rate or proportional tax, is that…