1913 amendment regulating the collection of federal income tax
Editors at Issues and Insights probe one of President Trump’s latest tax ideas. While speaking Saturday in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump suggested, as he had during the 2024 campaign,…
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online ponders a terrible idea on Capitol Hill. Vampires are — so the stories go — extremely difficult to kill, and so it’s somehow appropriate…
Kyle Sammin of the Federalist explores one of Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s worst ideas. Even if the people were on board at a gut level, the real facts and…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s devotes his latest editorial commentary to the push for a new American constitutional convention. We can measure the continuing distaste and disrespect for the two and…
John Steele Gordon shares with Wall Street Journal readers a list of reasons for the United States to scrap its tax on corporate income. In 1909 President William Howard Taft,…
One of America’s worst mistakes was enacting the 16th Amendment, allowing the federal government to levy an income tax. That has fueled the relentless expansion of our leviathan state ever…
One hundred years ago, the 16th amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, enabling the federal income tax. Over the years, more and more taxpayers have paid higher and higher…
That’s what economist David Malpass argues in the latest edition of Forbes magazine. Many parts of government have little accountability and operate from motives that go beyond their legal framework…
Writing for the Hoover Institution’s journal “Defining Ideas,” Richard Epstein explains how a flat tax would help avoid much of the political infighting that characterizes Washington, D.C., today. The limitations…
The next time a politician tempts you with talk about a temporary tax, you might recall this Forbes article from Amity Shlaes. Just as they are doing today, lawmakers in…
The Founders designed restraints that would ensure a limited government. In the latest Forbes, global economist David Malpass explains how government leaders have evaded those restraints. In 1913 the 16th…
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…