Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

November 22, 2002
Making the Tax Cuts Permanent and Fully Effective Now
By Lawrence Whitman
(Backgrounder #1614)
The Senate's failure to make last year's tax cuts permanent and fully effective is hurting the economy. The President should demand that Congress make the ...

August 27, 2002
How the Tax Code Contributed to the Corporate Scandals and Bankruptcies
By Lawrence Whitman
(Backgrounder #1578)
Policy reforms that decrease the tax bias in favor of debt vs. equity financing and retaining vs. distributing profits would limit the likelihood of future ...

February 14, 2002
Six Truths on How to Get the Economy Moving
By Lawrence Whitman
(Executive Memorandum #801)
The way to reverse the economic slowdown is to reduce government barriers to economic expansion imposed by high tax rates on working, saving, investing, and ...