TaxBytes

Make no mistake about it, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bills that recently passed both the U.

Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson this week used his column to assail both politicians and think tanks for avoiding dealing with the reality of the coming entitlement Armageddon.

You know the old saying that no good deed goes unpunished.

Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.

One of the problems that arises when a government passes lots of laws—and here Congress is an overachiever—is that things change over time.

With gas prices at uncomfortably high levels, politicians have been trying to make political points off them.

USA Today is reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) overpaid victims of Hurricane Katrina by $485 million.

It’s getting to be a little difficult to engage in a calm, reasoned discussion of costs and benefits of immigration.

Well, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be agreed on one thing: they will have to repeal President Bush’s tax cuts in 2010 to pay for their forays into government-run health care.

What if a state legislature decided it wanted to return some of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Hey, it could happen! What could the legislature do? Tax Freedom Day? Cutting the sales or income tax? A property tax cut? And where might legislators find some savings? How about passing school choice legislation.