Publication Type
June 23, 2011
Taxes and Decision-Making
One of the many problems with our tax system in the United States is that we are schizophrenic on the question of whether or not taxes affect decision-making.
June 9, 2011
Are You Better Off?
During one of the 1980 presidential debates with incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked the American people whether they were better off than they were four years earlier.
May 12, 2011
Corporate Tax Simplification Isn’t Enough
Washington is beginning to buzz about a reported push by the White House and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to reform corporation taxation.
April 29, 2011
Other Countries Lead the Way on Social Security Reform
If Washington is looking for a solution to the long-term financial challenges facing Social Security, it my try looking overseas, to, say … Kazakhstan.
April 7, 2011
The Moral High Ground on Fiscal Sanity
The majority of Americans seem to agree that our nation is headed for fiscal disaster, not only through their responses to polls taken by news organizations, but also through the most important poll--the one that was taken last Election Day.
March 17, 2011
The 1 Percent Solution
If the solution to your family’s financial problems were to cut spending by only 1 percent, could you do it? Of course you could.
March 10, 2011
Tax Reform—But to What End?
Tax reform is back in the public policy discussion again, and that’s a good thing.
February 24, 2011
Wisconsin Governor 'Union Busting'?
It should be no shock that The Last Stand of the Government Class begins in Madison, Wis.
February 10, 2011
Jobs Are Job #1
Republicans rightly understand that the voter passion that carried them to a historic victory in last November’s election was driven largely by concerns about federal spending and Obamacare.
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