Jeffrey Miron On February 20, the IRS fired 6,700 employees, many of whom worked in enforcement and compliance. Some warn this will weaken enforcement, deepen fiscal imbalance, and make evasion easier. Others see the firings as a long-overdue rollback of an overreaching bureaucracy. A different question of interest—especially to libertarians—is whether shrinking enforcement and therefore tax collections is an effective step ...
Barings Law, a leading Manchester-based firm, has won a pivotal High Court appeal that could allow thousands of consumers to obtain swifter justice in motor finance commission claims. The judgment, handed down today, permits more than 5,000 claimants to move forward as part of eight omnibus actions rather than filing separate individual cases. This major ruling, in the case Stuart ...
Arab leaders convened in Cairo on Tuesday for an emergency summit aimed at presenting a counterproposal to President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan. The summit was held to discuss Egypt’s $53 billion comprehensive reconstruction blueprint for Gaza. Before Trump proposed resettling Gazans outside the enclave, Egypt and other Arab states had shown little interest in Gaza’s reconstruction. However, given that Egypt ...
Vice President JD Vance visited Capitol Hill to offer a message of support for his ‘friend,’ Elbridge ‘Bridge’ Colby, President Donald Trump’s contentious nominee for the Pentagon’s No. 3 spot, undersecretary of defense for policy. In so many ways, Bridge predicted what we would be talking about four years down the road, five years down the road, 10 years down ...
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett was ripped by conservatives on social media this week after claiming President Donald Trump is ‘occupying the White House’ and is an ‘enemy to the United States.’ ‘Unfortunately, we have someone that is occupying the White House, and as far as I’m concerned, he is an enemy to the United States,’ Crockett said on MSNBC on Sunday. ...
Chris Edwards Republicans must cut federal spending to tame exploding deficits. DOGE is trimming the bureaucracy and the House budget plan trims entitlements, but more cuts are needed. A new Cato study identifies $181 billion a year in federal spending on corporate welfare, or business subsidies. The government hands out subsidies to agriculture, broadband, semiconductors, energy, airports, automobiles, and many ...
Stephen Slivinski Last week, the new Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson created a task force that, among other things, lists “harmful occupational licensing requirements” among its list of top concerns. All indications suggest that the FTC under President Trump is likely to be just as activist as the Biden FTC in equally bad ways but against different targets (like ...
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s congressional address on Tuesday night, the Concord Coalition launched their new ‘fiscal responsibility’ advocacy group, Concord Action, designed to pressure Congress to tackle America’s $36 trillion debt crisis. Former Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-GA, the new executive director and president, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital urged Trump to show he is serious ...
The European Union has a new plan to spend $840 billion more on its own defense after President Donald Trump paused aid to Ukraine and peace negotiations hit a wall. ‘I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face, or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those threats would come ...
‘He’s back’: Trump’s joint address to Congress to be blanketed with 6-figure ad buy touting tax plan
A conservative nonprofit group will blanket the airwaves with an ad before and after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night, touting his tax cut plan and promising more ‘winning’ as his term unfolds. ‘He’s back,’ says the 30-second ad from the Plymouth Union Public Advocacy, a conservative nonprofit organization that ‘aims to advance public policies that make America ...