Taxes
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From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes
Progressives are transforming California into what Britain was before Margaret Thatcher — and the billionaires who drive the state's economy are leaving.
Stop Pretending That Colleges Are Nonprofit Institutions
If an institution can spend $800 million on a football stadium, it can afford to pay its fair share of taxes.
Is a Wealth Tax Coming to California?
The failure of politicians to keep the books in order has left the Golden State desperate to make up for massive revenue losses.
Property Tax Relief: A Winning Issue
Republicans can counter the Democrats' housing "affordability" issue by touting GOP efforts to limit or eliminate state and local property taxes.
Mitt Romney Is Free to Pay More Taxes
The former GOP presidential nominee drank the Kool-Aid, writing a New York Times op-ed to advocate for raising taxes on the rich.
Property Tax Revolt Exploding Across U.S.
Voters of all persuasions are feeling the pain, setting in motion a demand for tax fairness that could make 2026 an upset election season.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Cut Taxes on Made-in-America Products
Trump wants an additional carrot approach to increase domestic production from Maine to Michigan to Montana.
The GOP's Tax Conundrum
Republicans are fighting over how and to whom to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
Read more Sunsetting the Property Tax in the Sunshine State?
Market value and rising property taxes are pricing some homeowners out of affording their homes.
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.
The Cost of Raising Taxes
Can the spell of congressional spending be broken or even just slowed down?