Taxation
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Rewarding Good Governance: How Foot-Voters Benefit Society
Governance improves when people and businesses are free to leave high-tax, low-value jurisdictions. Competition can improve public policy just as it improves products and services.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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A Forgotten Founder Who Warned Against Cronyism
John Taylor argued that government-created privilege would enrich favored interests while weakening republican self-government.
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Teachers’ Unions Are Losing One of Their Government Perks
Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.”
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Trillionaire Entrepreneurs, Forgotten Risks, and the Politics of Envy
Once entrepreneurial success arrives, few recall the risks, ridicule, failed ventures, sleepless nights, and near-disasters that came before.
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Tariff Math Doesn’t Work, and the White House Already Admitted It
Trump’s new USMCA proposal acknowledges the limits of onshoring. Tariffs can’t undo global supply chains; they’re a consumption tax paid by American families.
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How the Left Convinced Young People That Wealth Is Taken, Not Earned
Frustration with high costs has made younger generations more receptive to claims that wealth requires exploitation. But envy-driven attacks only limit our future opportunities.
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If Congress Wants a Raise, It Should Do Its Job
A Congress that routinely misses budget deadlines and adds to an unsustainable debt burden should not expect automatic raises with no accountability.
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Exit Taxes Won’t Save Failing States
Some state lawmakers are focused on making leaving costly, while ignoring the reforms that could make staying attractive.
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The Endless Search for Emergency Tariff Authority
Courts have now rejected multiple attempts to justify sweeping tariffs. The next “emergency” justification (Section 338) may not fare any better.
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Rewarding Good Governance: How Foot-Voters Benefit Society
Governance improves when people and businesses are free to leave high-tax, low-value jurisdictions. Competition can improve public policy just as it improves products and services.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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A Forgotten Founder Who Warned Against Cronyism
John Taylor argued that government-created privilege would enrich favored interests while weakening republican self-government.
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Teachers’ Unions Are Losing One of Their Government Perks
Should taxpayers be required to subsidize unions’ lobbying for more taxpayer subsidies? Three states say “no, spend our money on students.”
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Trillionaire Entrepreneurs, Forgotten Risks, and the Politics of Envy
Once entrepreneurial success arrives, few recall the risks, ridicule, failed ventures, sleepless nights, and near-disasters that came before.
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Tariff Math Doesn’t Work, and the White House Already Admitted It
Trump’s new USMCA proposal acknowledges the limits of onshoring. Tariffs can’t undo global supply chains; they’re a consumption tax paid by American families.
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How the Left Convinced Young People That Wealth Is Taken, Not Earned
Frustration with high costs has made younger generations more receptive to claims that wealth requires exploitation. But envy-driven attacks only limit our future opportunities.
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If Congress Wants a Raise, It Should Do Its Job
A Congress that routinely misses budget deadlines and adds to an unsustainable debt burden should not expect automatic raises with no accountability.
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Exit Taxes Won’t Save Failing States
Some state lawmakers are focused on making leaving costly, while ignoring the reforms that could make staying attractive.
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The Endless Search for Emergency Tariff Authority
Courts have now rejected multiple attempts to justify sweeping tariffs. The next “emergency” justification (Section 338) may not fare any better.