Tag: Taxes

As a result of Hungary's tax reform, the number of taxpayers has more than doubled, unemployment has dropped to a record low, growth has risen to a respectable percent, government debt has shrunk, and the rating agencies have upgraded Hungarian bonds from "junk" to investment grade. (iStock)

A look at Hungary’s experience with tax reform

Eugene Megyesy · October 23, 2017 4:01 am

Food retailers employ more than 4.8 million workers and produce over $363 billion in direct economic activity to their local economies. They pay nearly $168 billion in wages to their hardworking associates. (iStock)

Who needs tax reform most? Food retailers

Leslie Sarasin · October 22, 2017 4:01 am

Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore failed to disclose $540,000 promissory note to the IRS when he filed his Senate candidacy. The Campaign Legal Center is asking for an investigation into Moore, according to a filed complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore failed to disclose $540,000 promissory note to IRS when he filed his Senate candidacy: Report

Katie Leach · October 21, 2017 12:57 am

"The only reason I would have ... is if for any reason I feel the middle class is not being properly taken care of," Trump added. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: I’d ‘rather not’ have a higher fourth tax bracket, but might if needed

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2017 9:08 pm

Enrollment in Massachusetts Medicaid, also known as MassHealth, was high before, but MassHealth now covers more than one in four commonwealth residents and has expanded well beyond being a safety net to being a major insurer in the state. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Massachusetts shows rationing is inevitable when government is in charge of healthcare

Hadley Heath Manning · October 20, 2017 5:41 pm

Is There Room for Jeff Flake in Donald Trump’s GOP?

John McCormack · October 20, 2017 7:30 am

White House chief of staff John Kelly explained in an emotional briefing Thursday that he advised Trump to praise a fallen soldier's bravery when calling the soldier's family (although he advised Trump against calling at all), because it was what his son's friends told him over the phone when his son died in Afghanistan in 2010. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s counterproductive counterpunching

Washington Examiner · October 20, 2017 4:01 am

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., alongside Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced new legislation which would require ads on social media platforms to explain who bought them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats force Senate GOP to take tough votes on debt, taxes

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2017 1:27 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has not been entirely consistent in her handling of the scandal surrounding Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

In 2012, Nancy Pelosi crucified Mitt Romney. Now she wishes he was president

Becket Adams · October 19, 2017 7:43 pm

Seattle's democracy voucher program gives registered voters four $25 vouchers they can donate to candidates. The program was supposed to "turn the table on the traditional power map of Seattle." (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

‘Democracy vouchers’ are a sham

alex-cordell · October 19, 2017 6:19 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at podium, speaks about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are writing a far-reaching, $5.8 trillion plan they say would simplify the tax system and nearly double the standard deduction used by most Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Need proof that tax cuts promote economic growth? Look to the states

Akash Chougule · October 19, 2017 4:34 pm

Senate GOP sticks together in cutting state and local tax deduction in budget votes

Joseph Lawler · October 19, 2017 2:00 pm