This article appears in the January 28, 2013 issue of National Review. For many years, left-wing intellectuals have exalted Western Europe as the paragon of redistributive equity, contrasting it with ...

In light of the controversy about President Trump’s tax situation, it’s as good a time as any for a reminder about just how progressive the US tax code is. As my AEI colleague Alan Viard told me in a ...

People across the country already struggle to exercise economic and political control over their own lives, and there may be imminent changes in economic and tax policy that could make things worse.1 ...

Leading Democratic politicians such as Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and President Joe Biden have frequently complained that the Trump tax cuts were nothing more ...

Tim Graney’s letter to the editor regarding the complexity of the U.S. tax code (March 15) raises an important issue. The reason the tax code is so complex has a lot to do with its alleged ...

Michael Linden examines how our tax code has grown less effective at dampening income inequality, and how various proposals to reform the code would affect inequality. Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) tax ...

If you voted for President Trump last November because you believed he’d increase economic freedom, it’s safe to say you were fooled. Following a reckless tariff barrage, the White House and its ...

Listening to progressives talk about the 2017 tax reform law, you’d come away thinking that the law was a massive giveaway to the wealthy. But as new data from the IRS shows, that’s simply not the ...

We all know the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on our bodies and to decimate large parts of the economy. We also know the state's choice to close down some businesses while leaving others open and ...

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick recently announced on CBS News that the Trump administration wants to eliminate income taxes for those making $150,000 a year or less. Were that to happen, only ...

The prediction on the impact of a Harris win to the tax code as it relates to estate planning tends to be a bit more complex than the prediction below for Trump. If Harris does win the election and ...

Feeling the Squeeze? It Might Be the High Price of Ignoring the Deficit Audio By Carbonatix Recent data from the IRS put to rest a common misconception about the 2017 tax reform. Leading Democratic ...