Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn
Senate Republicans coupled its tax-reform bill with a massive budget cut. The House of Representatives would be wise to follow suit. The Senate majority leader and the Senate finance committee endorsed Senator Tom Cotton’s proposal to include a repeal of…
The main gripe against the 35 percent federal corporate tax rate involves its massive size: just two nations inflict higher rates on businesses than the capital of capitalism does. But a bigger problem than even its bigness involves its deceptiveness….
Like Franz Anton Mesmer and Dragon Fruit Mad Dog 20/20, our tax code encourages bizarre behavior. Apple, an American company, holds 97 percent of its cash in countries not named the United States of America. Employers hire accountants and lawyers,…
Executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill this week regarding foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This sideshow distracts from the circus. The policy debate in Washington, if not the political chatter, fixates on taxes….
To make America great again, making Microsoft, Google, and General Electric American again seems a good place to start. Technically, those companies remain American. Their profits, on the other hand, claim a more diverse lineage. But Google is as Irish…
Donald Trump routinely breaks Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment. Thou shall speak ill of fellow Republicans… if your name is Donald Trump. And the worshippers at the Church of the Holy GOP regard him as saint rather than a sinner for…
Donald Trump’s proposal to reduce the corporate rate from 35 percent to 20 percent puts America on a more competitive footing. But a more ambitious tweak to the tax code could create an opportunity society that pleases both conservative entrepreneurs…
Donald Trump pulled the cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) propping up the individual healthcare market last week. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-WA) hastily offered a temporary fix to those ailing individual markets in an effort to salvage them. But…
Donald Trump’s executive order diagnosed the primary disorder in American health care. “The average exchange premium in the 39 States that are using www.healthcare.gov in 2017 is more than double the average overall individual market premium recorded in 2013,” the…
“Nobody cares about deficits anymore,” insists retiring senator Bob Corker. Twenty trillion reasons suggest that nobody cared much about deficits way back when, either. The Trump Administration seeks to reduce the top tax income tax rates from 39 percent to…
