The IRS wants us on the look at for tax scams. Found one! It’s the IRS.

Now might be a good time to get back to basics.

How does their plan stack up against these criteria for good tax reform?

The real lessons are about political greed and how to control it.

New research shows why the fight for dynamic scoring is so important.

There are many different tax reform proposals that exhibit the principles of a good tax system.

Matthew Yglesias mostly attacks strawmen in his attempting debunking of dynamic scoring.

CBO and JCT wield tremendous power. They are also dependable allies of the left.

What can philosoraptor teach us about supply side economics?

I’m a big advocate of the Laffer Curve. Simply stated, it’s absurdly inaccurate to think that taxpayers and the economy are insensitive to changes in tax policy. Yet bureaucracies such as the Joint Committee on Taxation basically assume that the economy will be unaffected and that tax revenues will jump dramatically if tax rates are boosted by, say, […]