Potentially a half-trillion dollars a year in added revenues will be used to reduce the $8 trillion to $10 trillion deficits in the coming decade.

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan has incited energized discussion about the impact of taxes on Americans. At this event, Mr. Cain will discuss the details of his plan in a conversation with AEI’s Kevin Hassett. Following the discussion, a panel of experts will debate the merits and liabilities of 9-9-9.

Step by step,this booklays outthe author'spolicy vision for America in his characteristic common sense approach.

While the debate over the efficiency of tax relief efforts continues, Federal Reserve reports now indicate promising economic growth, with incomes and spending on the rise. In Bullish on Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger (Derrydale Press, October 2004), the Club for Growth's Stephen...

In their new book, The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen, (Simon & Schuster, October 2008), Arthur Laffer, founder and CEO of Laffer Associates and a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board; Wall Street Journal senior economics writer...

Worldwide, investors are watching where the United States is headed, and it seems they do not like what they see.

The future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is becoming cloudier. Legislation in Congress and a clear lack of support at the Treasury are harbingers of political difficulties ahead. Perhaps more important is the fact that these two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) are growing faster than the housing market. By...

The Democrats have taken up a hopeless cause that the GOP defended in the 1930s--fiscal responsibility.