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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Mark J. Warshawsky |Kevin R. Kosar |Preston Cooper
Post House Tax Bill Would Worsen Business Tax Parity Post Long-Term Care Provisions in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Bill Op-Ed House GOP Shuts Down Democrats’ Oversight of Trump Press Discussing Student Loans: Cooper on CNN This Morning Podcast What Does a Member of the House of Representatives Do All Day? (with Fmr. Rep. Derek Kilmer) Op-Ed Under Trump, the Chairman of the House Ed. Committee Lays Out His Agenda Op-Ed Where Can I Find the Rules of the House of Representatives?...
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Ramesh Ponnuru |Kyle Pomerleau |Marc Thiessen |Michael Strain
Op-Ed Republicans and Tax Hikes Post Getting Business or “C” SALT Right Op-Ed Trump Can Deliver Immediately for Working-Class Voters. Here’s How. Op-Ed A Trump Boom?
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Kevin Corinth |Matt Weidinger |Kevin R. Kosar
Post House Ways and Means Committee Releases Full Tax Bill for Markup Post The Ways and Means Committee’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Legislation: What’s in It, and What’s Missing? Post Is the Family First Act Fiscally Responsible? It Depends.
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Yuval Levin |Kyle Pomerleau |James Pethokoukis |JAMES CAPRETTA
Op-Ed The Republicans’ Debt Delusion Post Tariffs Cause Short-Term and Long-Term Economic Pain Post America’s Economic Crossroads Multimedia Third Annual Health Solutions Summit: Improving Medicare’s Sustainability Op-Ed Without Spending Cuts, Brace for Slow Growth Multimedia Facing the Future: The Federal Budget Lacks Fiscal Sanity Working Paper A New Long-Run Economic Model Basis for Projecting the Finances of the US Government Article When Fiscal Policy Meets Mathematical Reality Article...
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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Derek Scissors |Desmond Lachman |Michael Strain |Kyle Pomerleau
Post Trump’s Afraid of China, Which Is Scary Press Discussing the global economy in the era of American tariffs: Lachman on ‘HSTalks’ Press Financial Times Discussing how Trump’s tariff agenda may play out: Strain on Financial Times’ ‘The Economics Show’ Post Export Subsidies Won’t Reduce the Trade Deficit Either Article A (Possibly) Helpful Way of Thinking about the Trade Deficit Press Al Jazeera English Discussing tariffs and the US Federal Reserve: Veuger on Al Jazeera’s ‘Quotable’ Press...
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4 weeks ago | 
aei.org | James Pethokoukis |Kyle Pomerleau |Desmond Lachman |Marc Thiessen
Article Up Wing/Down Wing #44 Article Up Wing/Down Wing #43 Article Up Wing/Down Wing #42 Article Up Wing/Down Wing #41 Article Up Wing/Down Wing #40 Post Tariffs Cause Short-Term and Long-Term Economic Pain Post America’s Economic Crossroads Article Up Wing/Down Wing #39 Article AI Progress Amid Macroeconomic Wreckage Article Up Wing/Down Wing #38 Post So Much for a Trump Economic Boom Post The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle? Op-Ed The Big Interest Rate Cut: Is the Federal Reserve Too...
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1 month ago | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Julia Cataneo
Over the past several months, several commentators have referred to tariffs as a consumption tax (here, here, and here). There is a certain intuition behind this—an excise tax is levied on the purchase of imported goods, many of which are final consumer goods. However, there is an important difference—tariffs apply to capital goods like machinery and equipment used by businesses. This means that tariffs, unlike consumption taxes, can penalize investment.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Julia Cataneo
One of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises was to reduce the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent for corporations that manufacture in the United States. Trump has not specified how this policy would work, but presumably it would provide the preferential rate for a subset of a corporation’s taxable income. Enacting a special tax rate would be a mistake. If lawmakers want to encourage manufacturing activity, they should, instead, improve the tax treatment of new investment.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
aei.org | Kyle Pomerleau |Kevin Corinth |Julia Cataneo
This week, Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT), member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, introduced the Family First Act. This bill would significantly increase the Child Tax Credit (CTC), modify or eliminate other family tax provisions, and make the cap on the state and local tax deduction permanent. Rep. Moore and other supporters of this bill argue that it is fiscally responsible: The bill is “fully offset” and would not add to the budget deficit.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
aei.org | Alex Brill |Kyle Pomerleau |Julia Cataneo
The individual provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) are set to expire at the end of 2025. The Republican-controlled Congress intends to extend these tax cuts but some Republican lawmakers are demanding changes. Last week, incoming Trump administration officials met with a handful of Republican lawmakers to discuss raising the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction. Under current law, all taxpayers can claim a SALT deduction up to $10,000 if they itemize their deductions.
