Alex Muresianuwas a summer 2019 journalism intern at Reason. He spent the summer of 2018 as a federal policy intern at the Tax Foundation, and more recently worked as an Akin Fellow of Digital Media and Analytics at the Pioneer Institute in Boston. He is also a member of the Young Voices writing program, through which he has written pieces for National Review Online, The Orange County Register, The American Conservative, The Detroit News, The Federalist, the Washington Examiner, and other websites and newspapers across the country. He is an economics student at Tufts University who grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts.
Don't Believe the Hype: Sales Tax Holidays Are Usually a Ripoff
A weekend where a few items are free of sales taxes is a poor substitute for permanent reforms.