Taxes

Robert Samuelson: Why Trump’s Tax Reform Won’t Work

By Jacqueline Leo

It’s hard to imagine that tax reform is No. 1 on the Republicans’ to-do list when they still don’t have a 2018 budget. Worse, they still haven’t agreed to raise the debt ceiling, as the federal...
Gary Cohn: Here's What We Want From Tax Reform

By Michael Rainey

Gary Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, told the Financial Times Friday that the White House will begin a sustained push on tax reform starting next week. The president will hit the road...
Wild About Tax Cuts, Wall Street Forgets Its Deficit Worries

By Yuval Rosenberg

Max Abelson at Bloomberg Businessweek details how the titans of Wall Street and others in finance — think Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Bank of America’s Brian...
Where’s Trump on Tax Reform Push?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The push to promote tax reform to the public is on in force: House Speaker Paul Ryan talked about it at a visit to Intel yesterday and again today at Boeing in Everett, Washington. House Republicans...
Corporate America Is Putting Its Muscle Behind Tax Reform Push

By Michael Rainey

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is visiting Intel Corp. in Oregon today, and it’s not just to discuss the latest computer chips. Ryan’s trip is part of a larger effort by Republicans — and...

Tax Reform Consensus Taking Shape — but Can It Last?

By Yuval Rosenberg

The “Big Six” members of Congress and the Trump administration negotiating a tax reform package are making progress. The group has reached a “broad consensus” on the key question of how to pay for...
When Politicians Start Talking ‘Tax Reform,’ Check Your Wallet

By Rob Garver

If Congress ever actually gets around to pursuing tax reform, voters should expect to hear lots of talk about the benefits that would derive from an overhaul of the nation’s barnacle-encrusted tax...
Here’s How Trump Could Get Democrats’ Help on Tax Reform

By Rob Garver

The Trump administration has been reaching out to ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats to talk about possible areas of agreement on tax reform.
Are You Rich? Tax Reform May Answer That Question for You

By YLAN Q. MUI, CNBC

Whether to raise taxes on the rich is one of the thorniest issues in tax reform. Underlying that debate is an even more fundamental question: Who exactly qualifies as wealthy? Everyone can agree that...
Meet the Man Who Could Determine Your Tax Bill Next Year

By Rob Garver

All the promises coming from the Trump administration and the Republican leadership in Congress about plans to enact a massive rewrite of the federal tax code have been greeted with caution by much...

Slashing the IRS Budget—Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

There is an old trick in both government and business to get rid of an operation you don’t like through stealth—you simply cut its budget gradually, thus causing its effectiveness to suffer, and then...
Obama Throws a Gut Punch to the Teachers Unions

By Liz Peek

A funny thing happened on the way to President Obama’s “Promise Zones.” He stepped off track and delivered quite a smack to the teachers unions. In rolling out his newest anti-poverty program, Obama...
Congress Dishes Out $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

By LORI MONTGOMERY, The Washington Post

Congressional negotiators late Monday unveiled a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund federal agencies through the rest of the fiscal year and end the lingering threat of another...
Blame Jeff Bezos for Legalizing Marijuana?

By Liz Peek

It seems only yesterday that Bill Clinton was chewing his lower lip and confessing that yes, he had smoked marijuana in his student years, but he hadn’t actually inhaled . How times have changed. Now...
Millennials’ Joblessness Costs the Government $8.9 Billion a Year

By Eric Pianin

While much has been made of the plight of the nation’s millennials in the wake of the worst recession and slowest recovery since World War II, far less is known about the economic cost of this...

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