Congress’s reliance on budget gimmicks to hide the true cost of governing is as time-honored a tradition as the State of the Union address — and every year around this time it’s laid bare in renewal of what are called…
The Republican tax plan that won a majority of votes in the House and the Senate fails to win anything close to half of the public. Gallup found support from just 29 percent of Americans with opposition from 55 percent….
Can tax cuts exist in the era of the $20 trillion debt? A better query asks: how do spending increases thrive in the era of the $20 trillion debt? Investor’s Business Daily indirectly answered these questions in an editorial earlier…
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…
Washington White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders found a clever way to combine two passions — tweaking reporters and supporting big tax cuts — during a recent press briefing. She laid out a scenario in which 10 reporters had…
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,…
Recently liberals defined fiscal chutzpah by arguing high federal debt precluded tax cuts. This amazing new debt concern conveniently overlooks Barack Obama’s culpability in the calamity they now belatedly bemoan. It also implicitly sets a fiscal trap where liberals keep…
The insider whispering can commence. Has commenced, in fact. Indictments have that effect on the media and its Second Shoe Department. What’s likely to drop next, and where, now that Paul Manafort has drawn the baleful gaze of the special…
Washington Speaking to a group of workers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his proposed tax-cut package “will be rocket fuel” for the U.S. economy. It was Trump’s sly way of reinforcing a message that the White…
“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…
