Forcing future Americans to do manual labor that could be automated isn't "saving" them from job losses. It's trapping them in jobs that could be made more efficient, more productive, and more rewarding.
The trade war should be thought of as a massive tax and regulatory scheme.
As the U.S.-China trade war escalates again, farmers and small businesses are getting hurt the most, but global manufacturing is taking a hit too.
The Trump administration is pro-government intervention.
Existing tariffs on Chinese imports will jump to 30 percent from 25 percent, and the next round of tariffs will be 15 percent instead of 10 percent.
When Britain reversed its free college program and asked its citizens to foot a portion of their college bill, more working class people got degrees.
The details are reeeaaaaaally sketchy, but here's what we know now.
Politicians need to face the facts about Social Security.
His death resulted from a violent confrontation that never should have happened.
Tariffs are taxes on imports that translate into higher prices for American businesses and consumers.
Warren doesn't merely want to turn back the clock to the pre-Trump era. She wants to raise taxes and regulations far beyond the levels of the late Obama-Biden administration.
Understanding the real economic impact of higher taxes.
A weekend where a few items are free of sales taxes is a poor substitute for permanent reforms.
The unintended consequences of a one-size-fits-all plan.
The Democratic presidential candidate is the latest example that occupational licensing is truly a bipartisan battle.
Elizabeth Warren says her "ultra-millionaire tax" will raise $2.75 trillion. History says otherwise.
The tax was actually on much more than initial public offerings of stocks, and likely would have driven the next generation of startups to locate somewhere else.
The Kentucky senator wants the Senate to consider offsetting spending cuts before approving limitless, automatic spending for the rest of the century.
Nonpartisan and center-left groups are casting doubt on the Vermont senator's revenue estimates.
Tariffs on tea have never caused any problems, right?
Economists debunk the state government's claims about the size of the film industry.
The world doesn't owe you a dream college or a dream house or a dream job.
Lots of bad ideas from both sides of the political aisle.
The Democratic presidential hopeful tweeted that the company pays "a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers."
"Show me the majority for cutting spending," he says.
Let employers and employees work it out to meet individual needs.
If the tariffs ramp-up all the way to 25 percent, as Trump has threatened, they would be the biggest tax increase since 1968.
The Democratic hopeful has a plan for everything. Will her plans add up?
Voters will decide next year whether to impose it.
New York legislators also are taking another shot at legalization.
High taxes and harsh regulations lead to a $223 million cut in budget projections.
To be this wrong this often deserves recognition.
A New York Times report alleges the president lost more than $1 billion over a decade, but the truth is more complicated.
But most gun crimes are carried out with out-of-state firearms.
What could possibly be increasing California's gas prices?
Plus: Silk Road 2.0 creator sentenced, and FUCT at the trademark office
Surprised? Yeah, neither are we.
Being comfortably high makes the burden of taxes a bit less awful.
Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?
The legislation would exempt sellers who gross less than $10 million in annual sales from owing taxes to other states.
An overlooked ruling could force small businesses to pay sales tax in dozens, even hundreds, of jurisdictions where they have no representation.
Do you pay enough taxes? What is enough?
The White House's budget proposal would subject E-cigarettes and vaping products to a new "user fee," but it's really just a tax.
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