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Taxes 'The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share' and 4 Other Tax Myths That Won't Die The United States has the most progressive...
Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the...
Budget Trump's New Budget—Which Proposes $1.5 Trillion for Defense—Is Unserious. You Should Still Take It Seriously. It would...
Industrial Policy The World Bank Used To Champion Markets. Now It's Surrendering to State-Led Industrialization. The reversal...
Government Spending How Will Congress Fund a $300 Billion War With Iran? Lawmakers used to offset its emergency spending. They...
Whatever you think of the war in Iran, there's a separate question — independent of the military merits - that Congress must answer: How will...
Yesterday, the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions...
wealth tax California's Billionaire Tax Won't Save Hospitals The state's funding crisis is driven by a third-party payment system...
I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez — the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's...
Taxes Tax the Rich All You Want. It Won't Fix the Deficit. The problem is not that the government collects too little. It's that...
Health Care The Tax Loophole That Made U.S. Health Care Unaffordable The employer insurance exclusion has chained workers to their...
America's healthcare system consistently ranks as the most expensive in the developed world. It's not, as some politicians claim, expensive...
Following the tariff ruling, some people (including me) are wondering what happens to the trade deals extorted from our trading partners under duress....
In a column this week about the Congressional Budget Office's ten-year projection report, I wrote: As always, the CBO's report relies on...
The Trump administration has both a tariff problem and an economic reasoning problem. Recently, two senior officials have pushed back against a New...
Bad ideas, like bad legislation, never die. Case in point: the Rail Safety Act. A little background. In 2023, after the derailment in East...