Keeping the Export-Import Bank Honest
Last week, Boeing confirmed the purchase by China of 300 planes for the listed price of $37 billion. This deal occurred without any backing from the infamous Export-Import Bank...
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Senators Are Misguided in Attempt to Lower Drug Prices
If members of Congress had cracked open any random Economics 101 textbook prior to passage of the 340B drug pricing program, they would've learned that price controls always create...
Tax Reform Should Encourage More Saving, Not Less
Republicans want tax reform, but their refusal to cut spending forces them to look into all sorts of revenue raisers. ...
Tax Reform Debate Taxing Republicans’ Negotiating Skills
The good news is that there's a debate in Washington about how to make the tax code less destructive. The bad news is that lawmakers will be able to...
Cutting SALT From the Federal Tax Diet
In the quest for a better tax code, it shouldn't be difficult to agree that a tax deduction that mostly benefits rich people and subsidizes high-tax state and local...
Tax Reform Should Avoid the Global Minimum Tax
Good tax reform should be about enhancing competitiveness, which requires a low-rate and real territorial system. ...
Boeing and the US Department of Cronyism
The Commerce Department decided to slap a 220 percent duty on Canadian plane-maker Bombardier to protect its American boy Boeing against "unfair competition." ...
Can the ‘Big Six’ Keep Tax Reform From Being Deep-Sixed?
There are plenty of options for lawmakers to start the negotiation process for a much lower corporate tax rate than 20 percent. In fact, with a sharp scalpel and...
Three Priorities to Guide Tax Reform
Congress is finally tackling the tax code, which is good news because reform is badly needed. Our outdated code is complicated by thousands of credits, deductions and exemptions to...
Hurricane Harvey Relief Comes With an Extra-Large Side of Pork
It was just a matter of time before our ideologically flexible president started making deals across the aisle. The result is a $15 billion Harvey relief package that includes...
Government Barriers to Private Solutions
Americans are witnessing the power of private individuals and businesses to solve pressing problems stemming from Hurricane Harvey. ...
Here He Comes to Save the Day! Mighty Mnuchin Is on His Way
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claims he has been using his "superpowers" to keep the federal government from defaulting on its debt since April, when the federal debt hit the...
Republicans Still Seeking Casino Cronyism
Two efforts are underway to undermine state authorities who want to set their own rules for online gaming and lottery sales. The issue is a fixation of GOP megadonor...
Politicians Can’t Get Enough Energy Cronyism
Despite the breadth of the current political divide, it appears that there is at least one thing that all politicians can agree upon: energy sector cronyism. The only real...
Spending Caps Are Low-Hanging Fruit in the Fight Against Debt
Debt and deficits are bad, but they are symptoms of an underlying spending problem. ...