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Right Analysis / Taxes

Taxes / Daniel McCarthy / November 4, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs on Trial

The Supreme Court should uphold Trump’s tariffs and leave it to the people and their representatives in Congress to decide if the president ever goes too far.

Taxes / Emmy Griffin / August 28, 2025

Trump’s Tax Cuts Help Everyone Except Dems and Their Narrative

Democrats disingenuously claim that tax cuts will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, when in reality, it only doesn’t help those who don’t pay taxes.

Taxes / Nate Jackson / July 30, 2025

Is Hawley’s Tariff Rebate a Good Idea?

The Republican Missouri senator introduced legislation to refund $600 in tariff revenue to every American, but that may not be the most economically astute choice.

Taxes / Stephen Moore / July 15, 2025

Trump Should Index the Capital Gains Tax for Inflation

Outside of Washington, Trump would get a hero’s welcome if he issued an executive order immediately indexing gains. How could Democrats defend such a punitive tax?

Taxes / Nate Jackson / July 2, 2025

Don’t Believe the OBBBA Debt Projections

The bill isn’t the greatest thing ever, but it does make permanent the Trump tax cuts, preventing a $4.5 trillion tax hike that every single Democrat wanted to inflict on us.

Taxes / Stephen Moore / June 10, 2025

Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong

Big decisions that have enormous trillion-dollar consequences for our economy are being made with a cracked crystal ball.

Taxes / Brian Mark Weber / May 16, 2025

Nothing Is Certain Except Arguing About Taxes

With a disunited and sometimes downright dysfunctional Republican majority, can House Speaker Mike Johnson pull one big, beautiful tax policy sausage out of his hat?

Taxes / Larry Elder / May 15, 2025

If the Rich Are So Powerful, Why Are Their Taxes So High?

“The rich” sure has lost a lot of battles on the federal income tax rate, on the capital gains rate and on the deduction of state and local taxes.

Taxes / Stephen Moore / May 13, 2025

Cut Taxes on Made-in-America Products

Trump wants an additional carrot approach to increase domestic production from Maine to Michigan to Montana.

Taxes / Brian Mark Weber / April 11, 2025

The GOP’s Tax Conundrum

Republicans are fighting over how and to whom to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts.

Taxes / Nate Jackson / March 20, 2025

Democrats’ Tesla Chutzah

You can’t kill your parents and complain that you’re an orphan.

Taxes / Thomas Gallatin / March 18, 2025

Sunsetting the Property Tax in the Sunshine State?

Market value and rising property taxes are pricing some homeowners out of affording their homes.

Taxes / Stephen Moore / March 11, 2025

Want to Soak the Rich? Tax University Endowments.

There are at least a dozen schools bulging with $10 billion endowments, and scores more with more than $1 billion each. We should call these schools Loophole U.

Taxes / Brian Mark Weber / March 7, 2025

The Cost of Raising Taxes

Can the spell of congressional spending be broken or even just slowed down?

Taxes / Caleb Nunes / March 4, 2025

Renew the Tax Cuts Now!

Incredulously, Congress is deliberating whether we should allow $4.5 trillion to be sucked out of the American people’s pockets during high-interest/hot-inflation times.

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