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In 2005, the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform put forward a tax plan that would replace most, but not all, of the federal income tax with a progressive consumption tax. Known as the Bradford X-tax, this...

One of the more hotly debated policy questions surrounding tax reform is how revenues are affected by changes in the tax code. The current standard for assessing such changes does not take into account growth effects from tax cuts, which in turn boost revenues. Ignoring such effects can make tax...

A key government panel voted this month to whack what Medicare pays most doctors to treat patients. It's an important step on the path to ObamaCare--because the only way to make European-style health entitlements work in America is to pay US doctors lower European wages.

One economist's reaction to the State of the Union address.

This Outlook outlines six simple—and bipartisan—changes to the tax code that can help the country move toward a tax code aimed towards economic growth and away from complex regulations and political favoritism.

All levels of government face growing pressures to restrain spending. One downside to the rapid growth in tax-financed health spending that I have documented in several prior posts is the vulnerability of the health system to measures taken to curb government spending. But the degree of such vulnerability varies dramatically across different components of the health sector.

Joesph Antos' statement on premium support for Medicare before the House Committee on Ways and Means' Subcommittee on Health

George W. Bush will move Social Security toward personal accounts and push fundamental tax reform. John Kerry will increase government spending andraise marginal tax rates.