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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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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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Fund infrastructure by popping the inflation tax
By Ryan Ellis President Trump and congressional Democrats last month pledged to commit $2 trillion in infrastructure projects over 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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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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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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Trump asked Treasury to look into capital gains tax cut, Sanders says
By Naomi Jagoda White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that President Trump has asked the Treasury Department to...
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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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Capital Gains Taxes Should Be Indexed to Inflation
By Alex Fornwalt Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) recently introduced bill, H.R. 6444, is the latest effort to index capital gains taxes to...
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Washington needs to end hidden inflation tax on our capital gains
By Jenny Beth Martin The federal government indexes Social Security payments to inflation, to ensure that beneficiary payments are not...
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Trump Alone Can Cut Taxes
By Kimberley A. Strassel What if President Trump had the authority—on his own—to enact a second powerful tax reform? He does. The...
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Treasury Chief Calls Changing Capital-GainsRule a Job for Congress First
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, urged by conservatives to use his department’s regulatory power to adjust capital-gains...
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Getting “Real” by Indexing Capital Gains for Inflation
By Stephen J. Entin Key Findings Inflation-related gains on the sale of assets are not a real increase in wealth. Indexing the purchase...
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