What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

As the House of Representatives prepared to consider the Small Business Tax Cut Act, AEI economist Aparna Mathur gave testimony on why higher taxes and regulation on small businesses impede sustainable economic growth. 

Obamacare may be President Obama proudest legislative achievement, but the fact is it has been a political disaster for Democrats. The unpopular law has galvanized Obama’s conservative opponents, driven away moderates and independents, and hung like an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy. A decision by the Supreme...

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

Robert Barro discussed his recent research pertaining to the enactment of the first stimulus package.

Cutting the payroll tax cut, or even eventually eliminating it, might make more sense - if it happens on the Medicare, rather than Social Security side, of FICA.

The one thing on which our political leaders seem to agree is the need for corporate tax reform. But amid all of the promising rhetoric there is significant cause for concern. Many proposals, particularly those of Messrs. Obama and Santorum, seem to have unlearned many of the lessons of modern economics.

Facing a determined recall effort by Democrats in his home state, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) defended his public-employee reforms as adjustments that ultimately protect the middle class.