In an upcoming piece, AEI's Kevin Hassett highlights a new unique index of policy uncertainty which was developed in a path-breaking paper by Stanford economists Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom along with AEI Visiting Scholar and University of Chicago economist Steve Davis. Among...

The same money can't be spent twice. ObamaCare tries to do precisely that, and the government will have to borrow the difference.

The "Buffett Rule's" stated goal of making millionaires pay the same tax rates as the middle class is appealing. Unfortunately, the proposal is based on inaccurate claims about the tax system and its enactment would penalize the investment that fuels long-run economic growth.

Taxmageddon is the result of the extreme shortsightedness of President Obama and the Democrats, who extended current tax policies for only two years back in 2010. The latest research suggests that the economy will suffer severely this year for that shortsightedness.

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.

It is all too clear that the holiday's diversion of general revenue from the Social Security trust fund has undermined historical practices and distorted federal budgetary priorities.

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.

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