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This Week in Congress Tax Reform Update
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Representative Mark Walker (NC-06), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, are planning to introduce amendments to the tax bill replacing Obamacare’s individual mandate. The House is voting on the tax bill [...]
Education Scholarship Tax Credits Help Children and Advance Liberty
Shutting down the Department of Education and returning control of the education dollar to the American people is the key to improving education. The best way to put the people in charge of education is by shutting down all unconstitutional [...]
Liberty at the Movies: Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island, the latest cinematic incarnation of the legendary big ape King Kong, is not just a thrilling monster movie, but an anthology of the follies of military intervention. Set in the early seventies, the movie takes place in the [...]
This Week in Congress Update: Markups on 702 and Online Speech
Today the House Judiciary Committee is marking up the U.S. Liberty Act, the phony 702 “reform” bill. During the mark-up, Texas Representative Ted Poe and California Representative Zoe Lofgren plan to shut the “backside loophole.” This is [...]
GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax
Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan [...]
This Week in Congress
The House is in session Monday through Thursday. The big event this week is the vote on tax reform which is expected to happen on Thursday. The tax reform bill is generally good, but it still retains Chained CPI, which will eliminate many of he [...]
Will Senate Stay Strong Against Taxing Carried Interest?
Andrew Quinlan, writing in Town Hall, explains why taxing “carried interest” will harm the economy: Historically, capital investment has been taxed at a lower rate than wage income. There is good reason for this. Savings and investment [...]
Classic Ron Paul: Education Scholarship Tax Credits Pro-liberty Education Reform
Campaign for Liberty is supporting efforts to add education scholarship tax credits to the Senate tax reform bill. As the name suggests, these credits go to people who make donations to organizations that give K-12 scholarships to children whose [...]
This Week in Congress
The House is in session Monday through Thursday. The Senate is also in session Monday through Thursday. They will consider nominations. On Tuesday the House will consider H.R. 3411. This bill amends the definition of “joint employer” to [...]
Tax Reform Has a Hidden Tax Increase
As I am sure you know, the GOP unveiled its tax reform legislation yesterday, with some of the highlights including: Reducing the number of tax brackets from 7 to 4. The new brackets are 12%, 25%, 35%, and 39.6%. Cutting the [...]