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May 16, 2022
In recent years, progressives have been pushing harder for taxation of unrealized gains, either through wealth taxes or “mark-to-market” taxation. Though there are...
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May 9, 2022
At a recent Center for American Progress event, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced that there were 50 Democratic senators and the President on board with an idea for tax...
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May 2, 2022
As you may have heard, the richest man in the world recently acquired Twitter for $44 billion. A few politicians, like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have...
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Apr 25, 2022
With Tax Day having come and gone, you’ve (hopefully) finished filing and paying your taxes. Well, maybe it’ll take away a bit of the sting of doing so to learn that the...
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Apr 18, 2022
It’s been over ten months since investigative outlet ProPublica began reporting on a trove of tax records that it never should have had access to in the first place. Since...
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Apr 12, 2022
This has been a tax filing season to forget (not that taxpayers are ever particularly eager to remember them). Given that, with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck...
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Apr 4, 2022
The concept of federalism should be fairly straightforward: states regulate within their own borders, and the federal government handles interstate issues. But while most states have...
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Mar 30, 2022
It’s never fun to be the party in power at a time of economic trouble. Unfortunately, progressive leaders in Congress have responded to the financial challenges Americans are...
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Mar 22, 2022
Self-proclaimed policy wonk Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan for everything — just don’t count on those plans helping anyone except politicians and bureaucrats....
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Mar 14, 2022
I’ve written many times about the direct consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, which allowed states to impose sales tax obligations on...
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Mar 7, 2022
As the Western world continues to act to cut off Russia’s ability to sell oil and gas in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, there is recognition of the fact that this will...
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Feb 28, 2022
For decades, conservatives have vigorously defended the so-called “consumer welfare standard,” which states that the government should only take antitrust action in the...
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Feb 21, 2022
All taxpayers are dealing with a disastrous filing season this year, with the IRS backed up on processing millions of returns and refunds from last year and communication from the...
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Feb 14, 2022
When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in March of last year, a key point of contention was the provision of hundreds of billions of dollars in additional aid to...
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Feb 7, 2022
The national debt just hit $30 trillion. Unfortunately, when the numbers we’re presented with get to a certain point, our eyes tend to glaze over. After all, one trillion is...
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Jan 31, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a backlog of tax returns numbering in the millions and the agency can barely be bothered to answer taxpayer calls. Unfortunately, its failures...
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Jan 25, 2022
With a new year comes new opportunities — including the opportunity to once again fork over your money to the IRS. While that’s never a pleasant experience, for taxpayers...
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Jan 17, 2022
In the wake of the release of the latest Consumer Price Index data showing an untenable seven percent year-over-year inflation rate, self-proclaimed “policy...
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Jan 10, 2022
To paraphrase Ben Franklin, the only certainties in life are the passage of time and taxes. In that spirit, a new year means the approach of a new Tax Day. As much of a hassle as...