The Tax Bill Rewards States for Higher Rates of Food Stamp Fraud
Telling states to pay for a share of the food stamp program makes a lot of sense and would likely reduce fraud.
Telling states to pay for a share of the food stamp program makes a lot of sense and would likely reduce fraud.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
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Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
The Federal Reserve is unwilling to lower interest rates because "there will be some inflation from tariffs coming," Jerome Powell told a Senate committee.
Publicly funded homes in some cities are costing taxpayers more than $1 million per unit, but Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would increase funding for these inefficient projects.
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How the Colorado Supreme Court has nullified Colorado constitutional limits on taxes, debt, and corporate privilege.
After accounting for the dynamic effects of the Trump-backed tax bill, the CBO concludes it will add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
Twenty years after Susette Kelo lost at the Supreme Court, the land where her house once stood is still an empty lot.
Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers are among the products subject to the president’s 50 percent tariff on imports derived from aluminum and steel.
Like King Charles, he is abusing emergency powers to impose taxes without legislative authorization.
The budget legislation is full of other expensive provisions that will add trillions to our sky-high national debt.
And the stuff you get is of the government’s choosing—not yours.
Fusionism holds that virtue and liberty are mutually reinforcing, and that neither is possible in any lasting or meaningful way without the other.
That total will rise to about $3 trillion once the interest costs of more borrowing are included.
House members who discovered objectionable elements only after voting for the package nevertheless underline the unseemly haste of the legislative process.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby rightly decries the GOP's inclusion of a tax on remittances immigrant workers send to their families, in the "Big Beautiful Bill."
The lesson from the Moody's credit downgrade is that the U.S. cannot borrow its way to prosperity.
That total could double if temporary provisions in the bill become permanent, as is likely to happen.
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Friday's announcement by Moody's and the House Budget Committee vote could have been a turning point.
The administration shows no coherent commitment to free market principles and is in fact actively undermining them.
Lawmakers passed the largest spending plan in state history, pushing costs higher without delivering results.
Local governments love giving sweetheart deals to billion-dollar companies—now data centers instead of football stadiums.
The president’s sweeping import levies have no basis in the statute he cites.
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That's what could happen if undocumented immigrants decide not to file their taxes, according to an estimate by The Budget Lab at Yale.
Plus: A listener asks whether or not Thomas Jefferson was right.
The poorest state in the nation just passed bold tax reform that empowers workers, attracts investment, and simplifies the system. It’s a model worth copying.
It’s not the reform we need, but it’s welcome relief from ravenous and unpopular tax collectors.
There were no deals. There were no wins. There was no plan.
The government currently collects revenue in an arbitrary and distortionary manner, with loopholes that benefit special groups.
The Kentucky senator joins Just Asking Questions to explain why he's fighting against the president's unilateral tariffs.
Despite politicians touting progress, Los Angeles has only issued three permits for wildfire rebuilds and debris removal is expected to drag on for many months.
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Members of the administration spent the weekend presenting contradictory defenses of Trump's economic policies.
Attempting to defend Trump's tariffs, the White House points to studies that show they raise prices, cut manufacturing output, and lead to costly retaliation.
Governments should just get out of the way of free trade among consumers and businesses.
A small but growing bipartisan movement in the Senate is pushing back against the president's imposition of tariffs, but there's plenty of room to go further.
Lower-income families who spend the largest shares of their income on goods—and who have been badly hurt from the recent inflation—will likely suffer the most.
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Taxes on imports cannot possibly deliver all the benefits the president is promising.
If true, then these tariffs would be the biggest peacetime tax increase in American history.
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The president gleefully predicted that the cost to consumers could be as much as 10 times higher.
The Senate minority leader mocked anti-tax, anti-government views held by most Americans.
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