Political Irresponsibility Animates New Wealth Tax Proposals
Avoiding hard fiscal decisions by squeezing a narrow group harder.
By VERONIQUE de RUGY
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VERONIQUE de RUGY
Washington, D.C.
Veronique de Rugy is a columnist for The New York Sun.
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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Government Subsidies Fail To Make Georgia the ‘Hollywood of the South’
In the latest disaster for industrial policy, auditors estimate that the Peach State loses 80 cents for every dollar in outlays.
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Meet the Depublicans: Economic Populists on the Right Are Emerging as Democrats in Republican Clothing
For many critics in the MAGA movement, respecting the realities of supply and demand instead of endorsing price controls is a character flaw.
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Is America’s Middle Class ‘Shrinking’ or ‘Struggling’? The Difference Matters
Claims of a ‘hollowed-out’ center are difficult to square with data showing an overwhelmingly upward directional movement.
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Fraud Concerns Raised in Minnesota Welfare Scandal Go Beyond the North Star State
The outrage is justified because Americans are getting a look at what happens when pushing public money out the door matters more than verifying the eligibility of the recipients.
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Beware of Moral Posturing by the Wealthiest Americans, Like Mitt Romney, Offering To Pay More in Taxes
If the rich genuinely believe they should contribute more, they are free to do so today. The Treasury accepts voluntary payments.
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A Christmas Wish for Supply-Side Economic Policies To Restore the Roots of America’s Generosity
After decades of slowed productivity growth, many Americans — especially younger ones — no longer feel confident their work will be rewarded or that the future will be more abundant than the past.
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Entitlement Spending’s Wealth Transfers to Older Americans Fueling Malaise of Generation Z and Millennials
Social insurance programs are compatible with a basic safety net, but what we have now is a slow-motion generational fleecing.
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Trump and Mamdani Are Latest Example of Left and Right Converging on Economic Issues
One likes price floors, the other likes rent control. They’re both waging the same ‘war on prices,’ as one analyst puts it.
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Populists on Left and Right, Animated by Dangerous Pessimism, Find Common Cause
Both ends of the political spectrum imagine a nation crushed by a rigged system that can be fixed only through a radical redesign of government.
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This Thanksgiving, Renewing Appreciation for America’s Sometimes-Maligned Constitution and Creed
In certain circles, especially among ‘postliberal’ thinkers on the right, it’s now fashionable to claim that the Constitution has failed.
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‘Industrial Policy,’ Whether From the Left or the Right, Amounts to Bad Economics
Both liberals and conservatives harbor the conceit that their own intentions can finally succeed where decades of intervention have failed.
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