The European Union (EU) has announced plans to levy a tax on airline emissions for all planes landing and taking off from EU airports. This tax would be calculated not only based on mileage flown in EU airspace but also for the entire length of the flight (thus, Chinese and Japanese airlines would be taxed for an entire journey from Beijing or Tokyo).

Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

Consolidating tax credits would help resolve problems of targeting and awareness, thus making them a better tool for alleviating poverty.

In a just-published piece in Tax Notes, AEI economists Kevin Hassett and Alan Viard explain how targeted tax increases on big oil companies pose significant risks to the economy.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

While most discussion of school choice focuses on charter schooling and school voucher programs, the fastest-growing form of choice in the United States is tuition tax credit programs. Now operating in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia and benefiting about one hundred thousand students, these programs use the...