“No tax on tips!” This was the battle cry of Trump’s successful 2024 campaign. Yes, there was “Build the wall!” But that was background, part of the familiar chorus, an old favorite. The 2024 Trump campaign was, after all, a…
Legislators will soon determine what path to take on tax reform. They should pay special attention to the negative economic impacts of a failure to extend key provisions within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The manufacturing industry directly…
President’s Day often brings out the most uninformed opinions regarding favorite presidents. Many people will name popular figures or those they learned about in school who accomplished the most. American voters typically desire a president who will do more but…
“The only reason God put Republicans on this earth was to cut taxes,” stated the late columnist Robert Novak, who also was a strong supporter of supply-side economics. Tax reduction is a pillar of conservative fiscal policy. The making permanent…
The U.S. federal government has a debt problem. At $36.2 trillion (or about 125 percent of GDP), this burden is already so great that it cannot be paid back any time soon and would take decades of concerted efforts to…
Jimmy Carter’s funeral was Thursday, so you’d figure that might be one of the items in this week’s 5QT. It isn’t. Melissa summed up those proceedings exceedingly well, and I don’t have much of anything to add. Besides, I was…
Now that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is in President Donald J. Trump’s corner, the Republican standard bearer should work the Kennedys into his campaign pitch. He should remind voters that RFK, Jr. and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii are…
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 22, 2017, provided across-the-board income tax cuts for all income levels as well as significant tax relief for American taxpayers. However, most of the…
Cliches are sometimes unavoidable (hindsight is 20/20), but then so is history – it provides clarity when obfuscation is the order of the day. It seems fitting to say that in some respects we have been here before. Earlier it…
