Opinion
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Beacon Hill Institute’s Tax Analysis Modeling Program Brings Results
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Profile of a partner organization in the freedom movement -
Trump Administration Considers Indexing Capital Gains for Inflation
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Indexing would lower the effective tax rates on sales of long-term investments such as stocks, mutual funds, and residences. -
Sanders Unveils Heavy ‘Tax on Extreme Wealth’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -“Billionaires should not exist,” Sanders stated in a tweet after announcing his proposal. -
Millions of Dollars in Fraudulent Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Claims Revealed
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Internal Revenue Service wrongly granted $73.8 million of electric vehicle tax credits for 16,510 tax returns that made fraudulent or mistaken claims for the credits between 2014 and 2018. -
The IRS at the Breaking Point
Opinion -Editorial -Anyone who deals with the IRS on a regular basis knows that the agency is in trouble: IRS employees are less able than ever to effectively and efficiently handle their work. -
Medicare for All Would Be Quite Costly to Middle Class Americans After All
Opinion -Editorial -Sen. Elizabeth Warren, like most of the Democrats running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is all-in on Medicare for All (M4A). -
Michigan Road Fix Could Require Gas-Tax Hike ‘Close to 80 Cents,’ States DOT Director
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Gov. Whitmer has struggled to find the $2.5 billion annually she has said is necessary to “fix the damn roads.” -
Five Reasons Why Warren’s Policies Will Destroy Freedom as We Know It
Opinion -Editorial -When people take a deep dive into Warren’s policy views, they might want to think twice about supporting her run for the nomination. Here are five reasons why Warren should stay as far from the White House as possible -
Warren’s ‘Ultra-Millionaire Tax’ Is a Total Strike-Out
Opinion -Editorial -October is here, which means Americans are gearing up for two hallowed traditions: postseason baseball and political primaries. -
North Carolina Extends Sales Taxes to More Digital Products, Services
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Broadens the scope of the sales tax on digital property. -
Illinois Raises Gas Tax to Nation’s Third Highest
Opinion -budget-tax-news -After Illinois Doubled Its Gas Tax, the State Trails Only California and Pennsylvania. -
California’s ‘Green’ Energy Policies Are Driving Residents into Poverty
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California's energy policies are pushing more of the state's residents into poverty and is contributing to its homelessness crisis. -
ALEC Rejects Climate Action Resolution
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council rejected a proposed resolution calling for the “pursuit of American Clean Energy Policy” at ALEC’s 2019 Annual Meeting, held August 14 through the August 16 in Austin, Texas. -
Price Gouging Laws Are Knowledge Embargoes That Should Be Repealed
Opinion -Category 4 Hurricane Dorian, with winds reaching 140 miles per hour, is creeping toward Florida. -
More Force Won’t Fix the American Diet
Opinion -Editorial -Two nutritionists (Dariush Mozaffarian and Dan Glickman) have sounded the alarm about the American diet, saying bluntly what most of us know intuitively to be true. -
High Housing Costs Drive Exodus to Exurbs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Smaller cities in the United States are growing much more quickly than large ones, reversing a trend earlier in the 2010-2019 decade. -
New York Adopts State ‘Green New Deal’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New York state has adopted what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dubbed the Green New Deal of New York, the most aggressive carbon-emissions-reduction goals in the nation. -
IRS Roadmap Illustrates Complexity of Federal Tax System
Opinion -budget-tax-news -“Subway map” illustrates the tangled taxpaying process, from getting answers to tax law questions up through audits, appeals, and litigation -
Big Government, Shrinking Economy: The Case for Small Government
Opinion -budget-tax-news -From 1960 to 1973, the U.S. economy grew by an average of 4.3 percent per year with a government share of 30 percent of GDP. -
Legislative Pulse: Defending Constituents’ Climate Interests in Oregon
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Oregon state Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby) says Senate Republicans walked out of the Senate to prevent a vote on climate legislation in which they were allowed to have not input, that would have harmed their constituents interests. -
U.S. Treasury Rule Foils States’ Attempts to Circumvent Tax Deductibility Cap
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The U.S. Treasury has stymied efforts by high-tax states to circumvent the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT) on federal tax returns. -
The Future is Bright at Heartland
Opinion -Legacy Quarterly Report Newsletter -The Heartlander, Summer 2019 -
Time Runs Out for Proposed Louisiana Fantasy Sports Tax
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Louisiana State Legislature adjourned before final passage of a proposed tax on fantasy sports players. -
Is A New Tax Needed for Taxing Times?
Opinion -Editorial -Our existing political systems evolved at a time of much more gradual social, economic and technological change and to restrain excessive government they were designed to be cumbersome.