by Dan Mitchell | Apr 21, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
For the past 30 years, I’ve been criticizing both the tax code and the IRS. Which raises an interesting chicken-or-egg question about who should be blamed for our nightmarish tax system. Should we blame IRS bureaucrats, who have a dismal track record of abusing...
by Brian Garst | Apr 17, 2018 | Blogs, Taxation
Most Americans dread the lead up to tax day for what it means for their pocketbooks. This year, a collection of cynical leftists hope to use tax day to convince Americans of a fiction: that repealing last year’s tax reform will cut their taxes. Aiming to...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 29, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Given the speed of the modern news cycle, politicians and political pundits are often not held accountable for failed predictions. This is especially troublesome when those predictions were so obviously made in bad faith, as was the case with much of the opposition to...
by Brian Garst | Feb 15, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Government Spending, Taxation
Public opinion on the tax reform bill is improving and is likely to continue to do so as workers see their take-home pay increase despite the repeated lies of the bill’s opponents. But that’s not the end of the story. The reductions included in the reform...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 8, 2018 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
I strongly applauded the tax reform plan that was enacted in December, especially the lower corporate tax rate and the limit on the deduction for state and local taxes. But I’m not satisfied. Our long-run goal should be fundamental tax reform. And that means replacing...
