Tariffs and Affordability

by | Dec 19, 2025 | Economic Policy, Taxes, Trade

Don Wolfensberger: It was one thing to think that tariffs on foreign imports was a foreign policy issue, not directly affecting average Americans. It was quite another to realize it was really a tax on goods purchased by U.S. businesses and consumers.   While both...

Butt-Legging

by | Sep 8, 2025 | Taxes

Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 21: It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that...

The Tariff Power

by | Aug 30, 2025 | Constitution, Economic Policy, Judiciary, Madison, Taxes, Trade

Tony Romm and Ana Swanson at NYT: A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that many of President Trump’s most punishing tariffs were illegal, delivering a major setback to Mr. Trump’s agenda that may severely undercut his primary source of leverage in an expanding...

Tax Pork

by | Jul 5, 2025 | Congress, Taxes

Politico’s Brian Faler on some of the tax pork in the megabill: There’s a new supersized deduction for business meals — though only for employees at certain Alaskan fishing boats and processing plants, with the measure stipulating the facilities must be “located...