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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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Nine In Ten Will Claim The Standard Deduction Under Tax Reform According To New White House Study
By Ryan Ellis One quick side dish for Thanksgiving Week: the percentage of Americans who itemize their deductions will go way down under...
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Senate Tax Reform Bill Results in a More Progressive Tax Code Than Today
By Ryan Ellis The most important tax reform metric for liberals and Democrats, besides perhaps the total level of federal taxation, is...
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Individual Mandate Repeal Is a Middle Class Tax Cut
By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee announced today that it would add to the Senate tax reform bill a zeroing out of Obamacare’s...
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Top Five Ways the Senate Tax Reform Bill Cuts Taxes for Middle Class Families
By Ryan Ellis The Senate Finance Committee this week will report out a tax reform bill that cuts taxes for the middle class. The...
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House Tax Reform Bill Improves Education Policy
By Ryan Ellis H.R. 1, the the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” will be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives later this week. There’s...
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Virtually All Middle Class Taxpayers to See Tax Cut in Senate Tax Plan
By Ryan Ellis <$200k Fam. % Tax Cut to <$100Tax % Tax Hike Tax Hike Households Tax Hike Cut Fam. 2019 166,084,000 91.7% 152,300,000...
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Everything That’s In The Senate Tax Reform Bill
By Ryan Ellis Business Tax Reform Corporate income tax rate Lowered from 35 percent today, the highest rate in the developed world when...
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Tax Reform Means Tax Cuts for All Americans Regardless of Income
By Ryan Ellis One of the strongest positive elements of tax reform is that it features net tax relief for all Americans at all levels of...
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House Tax Reform Bill Is Good for Middle Class Families and Pro-Growth
By Ryan Ellis The U.S. House of Representatives is out with their draft version of tax reform today. If you want to get into the weeds,...
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Death Tax Repeal Is Key To Tax Reform’s Political And Economic Future
By Ryan Ellis When the GOP released their “Framework” for tax reform last month, official Washington got excited that they could finally...
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Why Rand Paul Should Vote For The Tax Reform Budget
By Ryan Ellis The U.S. Senate this week is considering the FY 2018 budget resolution, a document which is wholly meaningless except in...
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Rand Paul’s Giant Tax Cut Misunderstanding
By Ryan Ellis When it comes to the conscience of liberty in the United States Senate, no one beats the intellectual honesty of Senator...
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GOP Tax Framework Is A Pay Raise For Middle Class Families
By Ryan Ellis There has been a lot of talk recently about a Tax Policy Center analysis of the GOP tax framework. The report language says...
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GOP Tax Reform Plan Is The Right Mix Of Pro-Growth And Pro-Middle Class Tax Relief
By Ryan Ellis A framework for tax reform was released this week by the “Big Six” who will have a hand in writing the final legislative...
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Tax Reform Won’t Happen Without A Budget Resolution
By Ryan Ellis Summer has turned to autumn in our nation’s capital. Everyone is back to work, Beltway traffic is as bad as normal, and...
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Low Rates Shouldn’t Compete With Full Business Expensing In Tax Reform
By Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, there has been a disturbing trend in conservative tax reform circles. At issue is a supposed tension...
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NTU's Pete Sepp Outlines Tax Reform
By Pete Sepp To: The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury 1500...
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Big Six Kill The Border Adjustable Tax And Full Business Expensing
By Ryan Ellis A long-awaited statement came out today from the “Big Six” negotiating comprehensive tax reform (House Speaker Paul Ryan,...
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New Senate Healthcare Bill Slams Small Business Owners And Savers
By Ryan Ellis Senate Republicans today released version 2.0 of their Obamacare “repeal and replace” bill, the Better Care Reconciliation...
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Gas Tax Hikes vs Public Private Partnerships Heat Up in Summer Driving Season
By Ryan Ellis All across America, people are paying more at the pump. A cursory search of “gas tax hike” on Google News revealed higher...
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