Keep Tax Cuts, and Keep the State and Local Tax Deduction Low
In 2025 President Trump and Congress will consider whether to extend some of the most important provisions of the 2017...
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Articles by: Jonathan Williams
Congress Should Adopt Priority-Based Budgeting
The federal government ended its fiscal year 2024 on September 30, and to no one’s surprise whatsoever, the federal budget...
Read MoreLaffer Curve Turns Fifty
Fifty years ago on September 13, 1974 economist Dr. Arthur B. Laffer sat down for lunch with Dick Cheney and...
Read MoreHistoric Failure of Price Controls
As inflation steadily undermines the American family’s ability to afford basic necessities like food, housing, transportation, the specter of an...
Read MoreHappy Fiscal New Year!
For most states, June 30, marks the end of the current fiscal year. For those states, budget leaders have been...
Read MoreMedicaid Expansion Leaves Taxpayers on the Hook for Growing Costs
Medicaid was established in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society agenda, which expanded sweeping federal welfare...
Read MoreA Tale of Two States
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… The famous opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale...
Read MoreImpact of the Proposed Global Corporate Tax
ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams has an American Radio Journal commentary on the impact...
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