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Coalition Letter To FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf M.D.
Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert M....
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Center for a Free Economy
Feb 1, 20221 min read
Coalition Letter Opposing FCC Nomination of Gigi Sohn
Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to the Chairs of the Committee...
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CFE Team
Nov 2, 20211 min read
Coalition Letter To Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to Department of Education...
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CFE Team
Jul 13, 20214 min read
More Money to the IRS for Predatory Audits? Hell, No
(Jirapong Manustrong/Getty Images) By Ryan Ellis Every other week, it seems, the leftist tax-exempt nonprofit Pro Publica (which poses as...
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CFE Team
Jun 7, 20211 min read
CFE Launches Video Series "So Here's The Good News"
On June 9, Center for a Free Economy (CFE) launched So Here’s the Good News, a video series designed to simplify tax policy with real...
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CFE Team
May 17, 20211 min read
CFE President Ryan Ellis Featured on The Larry O’Connor Show
On May 14, CFE President Ryan Ellis was featured on The Larry O’Connor Show as a kick-off for Tax Day 2021. The two started by discussing...
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CFE Team
May 17, 20211 min read
Coalition Letter Opposes H.R.3 to Protect American Patients
Conservative leaders and free market advocates representing associations across the country sent a letter to Leader Schumer, Speaker...
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CFE Team
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Coalition Letter Opposes $15 Minimum Wage
Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter rejecting proposals to increase the federal minimum...
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CFE Team
Nov 18, 20204 min read
California protected the freedom to work, now it's time to go national
By Ryan Ellis Every election has lessons that can be drawn from the results. Some are more obvious than others. When historians look back...
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CFE Team
Sep 24, 20201 min read
Joint Letter in Support of the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Act, S. 4708
Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter supporting the Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and...
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CFE Team
Jul 30, 20201 min read
Joint Letter Supporting Language to Protect Freelance Economy
Several conservative leaders and free market groups have joined a coalition letter supporting language in the Republican COVID-19 relief...
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CFE Team
Jul 24, 20201 min read
86% of Seniors want Rebate Reform According to Polling by CFE
The Center for a Free Economy commissioned a poll by McLaughlin Associates of 1000 likely voters over the age of 65. We found that 86...
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CFE Team
Jul 5, 20204 min read
Democrats try to sneak ‘Green New Deal’ through tax code
By: Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, House Democrats have begun to signal how they would govern if given unified control of the federal...
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CFE Team
Jun 28, 20204 min read
Delay July’s Tax Day tidal wave
By: Ryan Ellis The month of July brings with it this year a tidal wave of tax payments owed by employers and families to the IRS and...
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CFE Team
Jun 21, 20204 min read
Three simple rules for Congress in the new COVID-19 relief bill
By: Ryan Ellis Congress is usually not very good at basic lessons of economics. In fact, simple arithmetic is usually challenging for...
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CFE Team
May 24, 20204 min read
Don’t let private health insurance be a coronavirus victim
By: Ryan Ellis No one will know until final reports are in, but our best guess at the moment is that about 36 million people have lost...
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CFE Team
May 10, 20204 min read
Don’t bail out Big Insurance in coronavirus legislation
By: Ryan Ellis Millions of people have found a simultaneously grim yet welcome surprise in their mailboxes of late: rebate checks from...
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CFE Team
Feb 11, 20204 min read
Trump’s socialist drug-pricing proposal remains on ice. It should stay that way
By: Ryan Ellis When President Trump delivered his annual State of the Union address in early February, there was a universal expectation...
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CFE Team
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Conservative Groups Urge Trump and Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare
The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...
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CFE Team
Dec 12, 20193 min read
The shortsightedness of big government conservatism
By: Ryan Ellis Over the past week, conservatives and libertarians online have been fighting over whether it’s a good idea for the federal...
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CFE Team
Dec 2, 20191 min read
75 Conservative Groups Urge Congress Not to Adopt Price Controls to Reform Healthcare
The Center for a Free Economy, along with 75 other conservative groups, this week sent a letter to Congressional Republicans urging them...
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CFE Team
Nov 22, 20191 min read
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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CFE Team
Nov 19, 20194 min read
House conservatives offer seniors better healthcare options with nothing taken away
By: Ryan Ellis An emerging axiom in politics is that the political party that is trying to take healthcare choices away from people...
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CFE Team
Sep 9, 20193 min read
A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love
By: Ryan Ellis When it comes to any issue, especially healthcare, there is very little bipartisan commonsense cooperation in Washington...
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CFE Team
Aug 26, 20193 min read
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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CFE Team
Jul 15, 20193 min read
The USMCA trade deal is a big tax cut
By Ryan Ellis Congress has been sitting on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, for months. A badly needed update to...
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CFE Team
Jul 10, 20194 min read
Joe Biden is a tax loophole hypocrite
By Ryan Ellis Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden this week released several years of income tax...
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CFE Team
Jul 10, 20194 min read
3 easy ways for conservatives to improve health savings accounts
By Ryan Ellis The White House this week is hosting a listening session with conservatives on “Building Great Healthcare in America.”...
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CFE Team
Jun 23, 20194 min read
If you’re in the middle class, Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes
By Ryan Ellis Presidential front-runner Joe Biden has made a startling promise if he’s elected president: repeal the entirety of the Tax...
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CFE Team
Jun 9, 20193 min read
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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CFE Team
May 14, 20193 min read
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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CFE Team
May 8, 20197 min read
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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CFE Team
May 8, 20194 min read
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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CFE Team
Apr 15, 20190 min read
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CFE Team
Mar 31, 20193 min read
IWF Leads Coalition Letter Against a New Payroll Tax and New Paid Leave Entitlement Program
Independent Women’s Forum today led a coalition of 33 freedom movement organizations and activists united against a new payroll tax and...
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CFE Team
Mar 31, 20194 min read
Bill Burr Is Right About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Tax Rates
By Ryan Ellis Comedian Bill Burr this week went off on a totally not safe for work rant about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plan to...
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CFE Team
Feb 13, 20194 min read
Don’t listen to Kamala Harris about your tax refund
By Ryan Ellis 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on Monday tweeted out that the middle class got their...
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CFE Team
Oct 24, 20183 min read
New Tax Withholding Tables Are a Down Payment on Big Middle Class Tax Cuts
By Ryan Ellis The new IRS payroll withholding tables are out, and they are predictably being downplayed by the same mainstream media that...
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CFE Team
Oct 22, 20184 min read
Trump’s middle-class tax cut election surprise
By Ryan Ellis Tax nerds in the Beltway went wild this past weekend with President Trump’s announcement of a new middle-class tax cut....
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CFE Team
Sep 24, 20184 min read
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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CFE Team
Sep 11, 20184 min read
Blue states whined about tax reform, but they’re actually being helped
By Ryan Ellis The House of Representatives will soon consider what has come to be known as “ Tax Cuts 2.0.”Among other things, this...
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CFE Team
Aug 24, 20183 min read
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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CFE Team
Aug 7, 20184 min read
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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CFE Team
May 20, 20186 min read
House Democratic Tax Plan Foreshadowed in Sixth District of Illinois
By Ryan Ellis House Democrats may be running on a tax platform consisting of uncapping the SALT deduction for wealthy households,...
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CFE Team
May 6, 20183 min read
Marco Rubio and Supply Siders Need to Work Together to Successfully Pass Tax Laws
By Ryan Ellis It’s fair to say that comments made by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) about the corporate tax reform in the Tax Cuts and Jobs...
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CFE Team
Apr 16, 20184 min read
Top Ten IRS Reforms the U.S. House of Representatives Will Consider During Tax Week
By Ryan Ellis This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a series of bipartisan IRS structural reform bills. While many of...
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CFE Team
Apr 9, 20183 min read
CBO Confirms That Mandatory Spending Drives The Budget Deficit
By Ryan Ellis The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released their new “Budget and Economic Outlook” for 2018. As usual, it has...
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CFE Team
Mar 13, 20184 min read
Congress Should Make Middle Class Tax Extenders Permanent
By Ryan Ellis The House Ways and Means Committee today will conduct a hearing on tax provisions which expired at the end of 2017. Because...
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CFE Team
Feb 21, 20183 min read
Stock Buybacks Make Your 401(k) Bigger
By Ryan Ellis In recent weeks, Americans have begun to realize that Congress and President Trump have cut their taxes. According to a...
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CFE Team
Jan 22, 20183 min read
New Tax Withholding Tables Are a Down Payment on Big Middle Class Tax Cuts
By Ryan Ellis The new IRS payroll withholding tables are out, and they are predictably being downplayed by the same mainstream media that...
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