“Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America!” Elon Musk wrote over a shared tweet showing the national debt trendline resembling an unclimbable mountain. “ENOUGH.” Musk, who heroically sacrificed millions of his own money by leading the Department of Government Efficiency, likely…
Last week, my piece noting the May 29th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s birthday (“JFK at 108”) drew some attention from my American Spectator colleague Francis Sempa. Make that disapproving attention. All of which is happily received in the…
Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is making its way through Congress. What sounds like it was pulled from a kindergarten politics workshop might just mark the return of the United States as the true “Land of the Free.” A…
Late Wednesday night — actually early Thursday morning — H.R. 1 finally cleared its final hurdles and scraped through to passage in the House of Representatives by a 215-214 vote. This is the Big Beautiful Bill you’ve heard so much…
The next month will be one in which Congress finally gets down to brass tacks on what the tax reform bill long talked about will actually look like. While most of the tax provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and…
America is undergoing a profound transformation. Gone are the days of reckless deficit spending and bloated government. In their place: fiscal consolidation, industrial renewal, and a return to assertive trade policy. A review of the economic agenda from President Trump’s…
Iowa Senator Jason Schultz provides a rule that should guide policymakers when it comes to tax policy. The “Schultz Rule” states that when it comes to spending “both Republicans and Democrats need to realize that tax policy is affected by…
Rumors are swirling that Republicans are weighing a tax hike on $1 million-plus earners. This would create a brand new top rate of 40 percent or even higher. Such a GOP-sponsored tax increase would be an excellent tool — provided…
Republicans claim they are slashing government, but they’re about to explode the budget deficit to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts — which would balloon interest payments on the national debt, already one of the largest expenses in the federal…
