Tax reform should not add to the already too-big number of taxes the federal government levies today. Tax Reform Is About Growth Congress must always remember that tax reform is an integral part ...

Congress needs to put tax reform front and center this fall, and for a very good reason: The federal government spends and taxes too much. The problem goes even deeper than waste: Our old and ...

One afternoon in 1934, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone decided to quietly help Labor Secretary Frances Perkins out of a jam. Her quandary was how to write a Social Security law that would ...

(In the 5-4 decision, the court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to levy a “direct tax” on property without apportioning the revenue by population, among the states).

The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform—Why We Need It and What It Will Take. By Bruce Bartlett. New York and London: Simon and Schuster, 2012. Pp. xiii, 271. $26.00. ISBN 978-1-4516-4619-1. JEL ...

Today’s tax code and multitrillion-dollar federal budget deficit work against the abundance agenda. We tax investment returns at every stage — once at the corporate level, again on dividends ...