Taxes & Budget

A Lavish Holiday Season for the Favored Programs of Government
With a month to go, and only a week or so until Christmas, the Biden administration is checking its winners and losers list, and delivering cash packages as fast as it can. Welcome to the season of Bidenomics at the speed of Donner and Blitzen. Bidenomics was peddled...
Closing the Laboratories Just as They Are Most Needed
In 1932, progressive U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized a phrase regarding the importance of the U.S. system of federalism. As he wrote, “…a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and...
Instead of Fining Businesses Government Should Get Its Own House in Order
Last month the state of California began enforcing its expensive and heavy-handed new business privacy laws despite the economic burdens already borne by business because of COVID-19 and the government’s shut down of the economy. At $55 billion in compliance costs...
IEI Signs Coalition Letter Supporting Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2019
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