Randall G. Holcombe | Monday January 28, 2019 at 10:26 AM PDT
Backing down on the wall and blaming it on the Democrats will cost him nothing politically.
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Randall G. Holcombe | Friday December 14, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
President Trump is going back on his campaign promise of making Mexico pay for “the wall”.
Randall G. Holcombe | Wednesday September 5, 2018 at 2:00 PM PDT
With polarization has come intolerance: people abandon their friends and family when they seem to have the wrong political views.
Randall G. Holcombe | Tuesday June 26, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
Special interest politics is behind the Supreme Court’s decision.
Jonathan Bean | Wednesday February 21, 2018 at 11:43 AM PDT
Blight, the Yale historian, is hardly unique in his misrepresentation of the classical liberal tradition.
William F. Shughart II | Thursday December 7, 2017 at 1:18 PM PDT
As 2017 was rushing to its end, the U.S. House and Senate passed different versions of income tax reform legislation, one of the Trump Administration’s top policy priorities. If a reconciled bill emerges from conference committee and is approved by majorities in both chambers of Congress before year’s end, the legislative effort would fulfill...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Wednesday December 6, 2017 at 10:18 AM PDT
The House and Senate have each passed their versions of a tax reform bill. Those bills now go to a conference committee consisting of members of the House and Senate to reconcile their (minor) differences so that both houses can vote on and pass the same bill. The conference committee is just a formality....
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Randall G. Holcombe | Monday December 4, 2017 at 12:51 PM PDT
It appears the Congress is getting closer to passing a tax reform bill. While there are differences between the current House and Senate versions, they are close enough that it is easy to see that they can be reconciled and tax reform legislation can be passed this year. Reform on the individual income tax...
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William F. Shughart II | Friday October 13, 2017 at 4:16 PM PDT
On Wednesday, the commissioners of Cook County, Illinois, repealed the controversial soda tax that went into effect in August of this year. December 1, 2017, will be the first day residents of Cook County will no longer be required to pay a one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugar sweetened beverages—and they’re better off without it. Although...
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Jonathan Bean | Thursday October 5, 2017 at 6:00 PM PDT
In another post, Randall Holcombe rightly notes the pressing need for tax reform. Holcombe argues that Trump’s proposed tax reform is “an improvement over the current system.” That may be true; time will tell. Yet, today my news feed reports nonchalantly that the Republican Congress passed a budget in excess of $4 trillion. That...
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