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Abstract: The current tax code is an enormous burden on the economy, preventing it from reaching its full potential. Tax reform is long overdue. After initial reluctance, President Obama now agrees that the economy needs tax reform. He…
President Obama and Congress need to focus on policies in 2012 that will unleash the economic growth necessary to get the economy back on track, create jobs, and lower the unemployment rate. As more government spending has failed to create that growth, the President and Congress…
Abstract: America needs jobs. A government committed to free enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom, and not to more borrowing and spending, can properly help. To help unleash the private sector to invest and create jobs, Congress should promptly take five specific actions: enact…
Abstract: The current tax system discourages saving. It discourages investment. It discourages entrepreneurship. It causes decision makers to misallocate the nation’s resources, limiting productivity gains, wage gains, and the nation’s overall level of international competitiveness. And, it is far, far too complicated. The New Flat Tax is the remedy.…
Saving the American Dream is The Heritage Foundation’s plan to fix the debt, cut spending and, above all, restore prosperity. It balances the nation’s budget within a decade—and keeps it balanced. It reduces the debt and cuts government…
Bill Beach discusses the possible outcomes of a flat tax. …
This key research from 2005 has been updated in J.D. Foster's paper "The New Flat Tax—Easy as One, Two, Three" There is widespread consensus that the current tax system is a complicated failure that hinders the…
The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in The Public Interest entitled, "Taxes, Revenues, and the 'Laffer Curve.'"1 As recounted by Wanniski (associate…
Talk-radio host Neal Boortz is no fan of the nation's capital. "The place gives me the creeps," he said on this week's...…
Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, will release his budget blueprint today in what will surely be...…
House Republicans return to Washington today to vote on a two-month payroll tax extension. If news reports are...…
Ready for a new year and another bout with the Internal Revenue Service, deductions, exemptions, pens and pencils,...…
U.S. taxpayers will spend $431 billion just complying with the tax code this year, according a new study by Arthur...…
Two-time former Estonia Prime Minister Mart Laar visited The Heritage Foundation today, extolling the benefits the flat...…