Politics

The governors of 31 states, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, say they won’t take Syrian refugees. Merrill Matthews lays the blame for the refugee stalemate with the White House, not the nation’s governors; they have legitimate safety concerns, he wrote.

Before Obama sets a narrative that the U.S. is xenophobic, the public might benefit from a few facts on immigration.

President Barack Obama is once again faced with a problem of his own creation. After all, when you sow disgust you reap mistrust.

The irony here is that Obama came into office promising to restore the trust in big government.

Will one socialist learn from another socialist about marginal tax rates? Probably not.

To introduce a hidden tax as part of a tax plan is a sure path to failure of transparency, and a failure to serve the citizens.

Eighty-one percent view her unfavorably, with 69 percent having a very unfavorable view.

The time for a litmus test has come, said Merrill Matthews, resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas. “Republicans tend to say they won’t impose a litmus test, but it’s probably time to change,” he said.

If Donald Trump were successful, multinationals like Apple, Google, they wouldn't have to try to use the tax system to hide their profits in other countries, IPI's Merrill Matthews tells The Street's Emily Stewart.

When low-information voters put Barack Obama in the White House, they provided him with a type of credit card—drawn on the U.S. Treasury, otherwise known as taxpayers. Yet for the past seven years the press has been singularly uninterested in how honest and responsible Obama has been with that financial trust.