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FISCAL POLICY
Getting fiscal policy right is the heart of getting government economic policies right. That means a pro-growth tax code which raises enough money for modest and well-designed government spending programs. Essential to fiscal policy is health care policy, which today dominates both tax and spending outlooks.
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Tax Pros Worry Lack of Filing Extension Will Confuse Taxpayers
Tax preparers who hoped upcoming tax filing deadlines for individuals and businesses would be delayed due to the new coronavirus were...
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CFE joins five organizations opposing bailout for renewable energy
This week, the Center for a Free Economy joined five other free market champions to demand that Congress not give a bailout to renewable...
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Indexing capital gains would be a game changer
By Grover Norquist It is wrong to tax inflation. Last week, President Trump agreed. He endorsed the idea of indexing capital gains so...
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75 Conservative Groups: “We oppose any carbon tax.”
Dear Members of Congress, We oppose any carbon tax. A carbon tax raises the cost of heating your home in the winter and cooling your home...
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The Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Rates For Small Businesses And Flow Through Firms
By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. Senate will consider their version of fundamental tax reform. A key area of debate here has been the...
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Larry Kudlow Should Get President Trump to Index Capital Gains to Inflation
By Ryan Ellis It was reported today that Larry Kudlow will be named the new director of the National Economic Council at the White House....
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Conservative Coalition Supports Tax Reform 2.0 Legislation
Americans for Tax Reform today led a coalition of 58 conservative groups and activists in support of the Tax Reform 2.0 legislation set...
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Trump Needs to Stop Taking Bad Trade Advice from Liberal Dem Peter Navarro
By: Ryan Ellis Earlier this week, I had the privilege of participating in a telephone town hall with Congressman Peter Roskam and callers...
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Not just Mr. Moneybags: Ending the capital gains inflation tax helps ordinary Americans too
By Ryan Ellis In the past week, there has been a flurry of press accounts that President Trump has directed the Treasury Department to...
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Letter encouraging adjusting the calculation of capital gains to account for inflation
From Juanita Duggan The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C....
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Newt Gingrich: Why THIS must happen next in Trump’s economic revolution
By Newt Gingrich The next big step in President Trump’s economic revolution should be to index the capital gains tax. This bold step...
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It's reg time
By Bernie Becker IT’S RAINING REGS, HALLELUJAH: A couple of sets of proposed tax rules last week, including some new guidance to cap off...
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The Trump Administration Should Index Capital Gains To Inflation
By Adam Brandon In 2016, economists scoffed at the notion made by then-candidate Donald Trump that he wanted "to establish a national...
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The Politics and Economics of the Capital Gain Tax
By Alan Reynolds The Treasury Department is said to be studying the idea of providing some sort of inflation-protection (indexing) for...
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Here’s everything wrong with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s delusional tax reform ideas
By: Ryan Ellis Over the weekend, a video made the rounds of “Democratic socialist” congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
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More fun with indexing
By: Bernie Becker CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP: It might take awhile to figure out how seriously President Donald Trump’s administration is...
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New Tax Break? Trump Administration Considers Indexing Capital Gains For Inflation
By Kelly Phillips Erb Think we’re finished with tax breaks in 2018? Not so fast. Hot on the heels of tax cuts from the Tax Jobs and Cuts...
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Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich
By Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax...
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Tax Reform 2.0: Indexing Capital Gains
By: Paul Jacobs Indexing capital gains for inflation has long occupied a place on many conservatives’ wish lists. A recent push suggests...
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Will the Trump Tax Bill Drive Down Ticket Sales?
By: David Waldstein Tyler Graffeo, the president of Interstate Truck Center, generated a lot of business while entertaining clients in...
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