Outside the Beltway

The Ronald Reagan that Republicans lionize is very different from the one who actually served as 40th President of the United States.

House and Senate Republicans are pushing a Balanced Budget Amendment. It sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

There are signs that the Ryan Plan isn’t playing well with the public.

Tax compliance employs more workers than Wal-Mart, UPS, McDonalds, IBM, and Citigroup — combined.

The GOP seems to be telling President Obama that revenue increases are off the table. That’s a huge mistake.

Paul Ryan unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the deficit today. The question is whether it will be the beginning of a debate, or an opportunity for Democratic demagoguery

A new study suggests that increases in the price of gasoline have very little impact on consumer behavior. If that’s true, it has serious implications for energy policy.

Since Barack Obama took office, federal taxes have been lower for pretty much everyone.

You don’t have to be Admiral Akbar to suspect that the President’s refusal to deal with entitlements in his budget proposal is a trap for the GOP.

President Obama’s new budget involves nothing less than a thumb in the eye of anyone who hoped he would seriously address federal spending in his first term.

Actor Alec Baldwin is among hundreds being targeted by New York City for tax evasion. Is it reasonable to have to prove where you live?

American states and localities, desperate for new sources of revenue, concoct some creative ways to tax.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

Compromise in politics involves more than compromising one’s principles.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows and, when it comes to the debate over the extension of the Bush tax cuts, anti-tax Republicans are making common cause with soak-the-rich progressives.

Bernie Sanders took to the floor of the Senate yesterday to rail against President Obama’s tax cut deal. It was history in the making, but it’s not clear that it actually accomplished anything.