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Needing an 'Enemy' Aug. 26, 2017
Eric Hoffer, a San Francisco longshoreman and philosopher who died in 1983, the year President Ronal... Read More
Carried Interest Tax to Carry Water for Reform? Jun. 29, 2017
Much of the difficulty Republicans are experiencing in passing tax reform is self-inflicted. They've... Read More
Dropping the BAT Is Key to Passing Tax Reform This Year Jun. 22, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan just made his pitch to the country about tax reform. He wants it, and he wan... Read More
Of Baseball Bats and Tax Reform May. 02, 2017
The coming fight over tax reform highlights distinct and seemingly irreconcilable views of governmen... Read More
Breakfast and Taxes May. 01, 2017
I like to go out for breakfast. I don't mean I like a nice dragon fruit smoothie and a banana, eithe... Read More
The Grifters Do 'Tax Reform' Apr. 28, 2017
If you were paying attention to what we learned about Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, then yo... Read More
Blame the Spendaholics, Not Tax Reformers Apr. 26, 2017
If you live in tax hell — New York, Illinois, California, New Jersey or Connecticut — pa... Read More
Retreat, Hell! Trump Just Got Here! Apr. 05, 2017
After less then 75 days in office, the mainstream media is already writing obituaries for the Trump ... Read More
The Coming Fiscal Binge Mar. 30, 2017
William Safire said that as a speechwriter for Richard Nixon, he would sometimes urge the president,... Read More
States Are Going Broke Because They Broke the Bank Feb. 28, 2017
Governors and state legislators say they are running out of money again, and many are demanding tax ... Read More
We Need Tax Reform, Not Tariffs Jan. 10, 2017
If America's competitors intentionally tried designing a tax system to destroy the American economy,... Read More
Tax Cuts, King Dollar and Growth: From JFK to Reagan to Trump Sep. 17, 2016
Fifty-four years ago, at The Economic Club of New York, President John F. Kennedy unveiled a dramati... Read More
Trump Joins GOP Tax-Reform Party Oct. 02, 2015
One positive development in this often-confusing election season is a decent array of tax-reform pro... Read More
Needed: One Really Smart Tiger Jan. 25, 2014
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 — which dramatically cut individual rates, lowering the top rate pa... Read More
For Voters, Tax Reform Means Tax Equality Mar. 21, 2012
There's a reason President Obama, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and many others are touting tax reform thes... Read More
Mitt's Big Next Step on Tax Reform Jan. 10, 2012
While so much attention has been turned to Newt Gingrich's catastrophically mistaken attack on Mitt ... Read More
The President's Excess Income, and Ours Jul. 10, 2011
It is becoming a verbal tic — the tendency on the part of the president to tell wealthy Americ... Read More
Democrats' Spending and Power Addictions Prevent Debt Solutions May. 08, 2011
The Washington Examiner reports that it's been 768 days since the Democratic-controlled Senate passe... Read More
