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A Guide to the 2012 Social Security Trustees Report

This will be the first of two articles on the 2012 Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ reports. I am one of the six trustees of these two programs, and one of two public trustees along with Dr....

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Getting Internet Sales Tax Right

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.While Amazon has somewhat softened its stance against state-level efforts to collect sales tax on internet sales, the fight over how internet...

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The President's Curious Misunderstanding of Market Economies

Certain words in American political discourse lose their meaning and are understood only as epithets. Calling someone a “socialist,” for example, is often understood to be a beyond-the-pale...

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Framing the Decision on Higher Tax Rates

There are three basic positions one can take on the question of whether Congress should increase tax rates on high income taxpayers:No to higher tax rates – higher tax rates will result in less work,...

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New Info Explaining The Government War on Business

The staff on the Republican side of the Joint Economic Committee have been busy, as they’ve produced some great new material. First, an infographic showing the myriad ways Washington uses red tape to...

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Is it Becoming Too Late to Fix Social Security's Finances?

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.One of my duties as a public Social Security trustee is to explain the program’s financial condition, both formally as a signer of the annual...

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Difficult Tax Scenarios Add to US Recession Risk

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.This piece was originally written for Encima Global.With the market-favorable Fed announcement and German court ruling, we’re at the end of the...

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Let’s Talk Specifics on Itemized Deductions Limitations in Fiscal Cliff...

During the upcoming fiscal cliff negotiations, most of the attention is likely to be paid to two threshold questions: (1) whether or not Congress should agree to new tax revenue, period; and (2) what...

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If Taxes Must be Raised, Raise Average Tax Rates

In the debate on how best to resolve the so-called “fiscal cliff” of $600 billion of pending tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for January 1, 2013, President Obama is not only insisting on more...

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CBO Deficit Forecast Breathes New Life into Deficit Debate

Did you notice how the U.S. economy was suddenly thrown into recession this year when tax increases and spending cuts took effect? If you didn’t, that’s no surprise because the economy actually...

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Road Rage: States Get Creative To Fund Highways

This Labor Day, many Americans are enjoying their last summer weekend at the beach or mountains — and the traffic jams that accompany these holiday weekends.Yet with cars becoming more fuel efficient,...

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Time to Fix the Charitable Deduction

Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus and ranking minority member Orrin Hatch have issued a bracing and unusual challenge to their colleagues: make the essential case for any and all tax breaks...

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Businesses Should Fear States' Big Pension Debts

In late June the ratings agency Moody’s issued a report recalculating states’ pension debts using more conservative metrics than the states themselves apply. Whereas states claim they’ve funded about...

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Labor Unions' Latest Problem

Last month, we discussed the stunning turnabout from leaders of prominent labor unions, who stated that "unintended consequences" from Obamacare were "causing nightmare scenarios" that would "shatter...

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More of the Same in Chattanooga From a One-Tune President

President Obama visited Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday for another in his series of speeches to fix the economy. Obama is traveling the country, with stops in Illinois, Florida and now Tennessee, to...

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Tax Les Riches—Just Not Soccer Players

France’s Socialist President, François Hollande, is finally getting negative public pushback for his proposed “supertax.” This central tenet of his 2012 campaign slaps a 75 percent marginal tax on all...

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How to Grow the Economy and Cut Spending

The good news: America’s deficit is declining, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The bad news: after reaching 2% of GDP in 2015, deficits will start to rise, eventually...

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Cutting Income Taxes Helps States Across-the-Board, Even with Tax Revenue

·         From 2000 to 2010, the nine states that did not have an income tax witnessed faster growth in key economic indicators than the nine states with the highest income tax rates.·         Non-farm...

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In Two Weeks, New York City Will Commit Suicide

In two weeks New York City residents will choose a new mayor. The likely winner is Democrat Bill de Blasio, 40 percentage points ahead of rival Republican Joe Lhota in the polls. To fund more education...

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Lowering Corporate Taxes—the Party America Missed

Over the last 25 years, most industrialized countries have lowered their corporate tax rates. Global capital is increasingly mobile, and corporations seek lower-tax localities.The United States has...

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