The president's tax plan looks promising, but it will be important to minimize revenue losses to the US Treasury. Read More...Tags: tax reform, House Republicans, A Better Way, corporate tax overhaul, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, White House briefing on president's tax plan, Alan Blinder, National Taxpayers Union, Laffer Curve, Kennedy tax cuts, Reagan tax cuts, David Stockman, border adjustment, Value Added Tax, carbon tax, estate tax, mortgage interrest deduction, child & dependent care propsal, Ivanka Trump, infrastructure, gas tax hke
It’s time to rethink the “price is no object” approach to government healthcare programs. Read More...Tags: public disssatisfaction with GovCare, reduced number of Americans without healthcare insurance, HCI exchange operations, government subsidies for HCI policies, expansion of Medicaid, HCI insurers incentivized to misprice risk, Insurance "death spiral", option one: do more, Bernie Sanders, Medicare for all, Hillary Clinton, public option, Sen. Marco Rubio, option two: do better, House Republicans, Donald Trump, Congressional Budget Office, scoring of Affordable Care Act
House GOP agenda falls short of its advance billing as a collection of “bold conservative proposals.” Read More...Tags: House Republicans, Speaker Paul Ryan, Welfare system, Leviathan on the right, Beginning of a conversation, Lake Wobegon, National security, External and homeland threats, Radical Islamic terrorism, Nato obligations, Iranian nuclear deal, Smarter regulation, "Sue and settle", REINS Act, power of the purse, filibustering appropriation bills, Afffordable Care Act, healthcare insurance , Cadillac tax, Medicare, Medicaid, tax reform plan, territorial system, border adjustments, Tax Foundation, Earned Income Tax Credit, static scoring, dynamic scoring