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Blog: Cato at Liberty
After five rounds, tens of thousands of online voters have chosen the most wasteful federal program: the subsidies and tax breaks in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. The results from Spending Madness suggest that the highest priority budget cut for Congress is the vast corporate welfare unleashed by the IRA.
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Rather than pursuing low and equal tax rates for all businesses, Biden's misguided approach is to impose punitive treatment on most businesses while handing out subsidies for the select few.
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President Biden signed into law three massive bills handing out hundreds of billions of dollars of narrow tax breaks and spending subsidies to big corporations. It is the biggest gusher of corporate welfare ever.
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People in the industry know that government subsidies generate complexity and high costs. To me, the solution for affordable housing is local deregulation and property tax cuts for apartment buildings, not federal subsidies.
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The LIHTC is not some simple investment incentive, but rather a giant central‐planning scheme for the nation's apartment buildings.
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Thirty‐two unaffordable federal spending programs are going head‐to‐head in a classic, single‐elimination tournament format. And you get to decide the worst of the bunch.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
President Biden's new federal budget proposes high spending and huge deficits for years to come. The deficits are expected to boost government debt held by the public from $28 trillion this year to $45 trillion by 2034.
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The Biden budget promises "meaningful deficit reduction through measures that reduce wasteful spending" but does not deliver.
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False claims about tax rates on high earners are remarkably persistent given the easy availability of the official data.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
President Biden is expected to propose raising the federal corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent in his State of the Union address. Contrary to the administration, I think America should have the best tax environment in the world for entrepreneurs and business investment. It's better to have low and equal tax rates for all than subsidies for the few.
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Expanding federal housing tax credits would be the opposite of evidence‐based policymaking.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
A way to tackle government debt is to devolve a large part of federal spending to the states, allowing them to fund it themselves.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
The solution to local government corruption is simple: deregulation. If Americans want less government corruption, they must reduce the government's power over private activities.
Blog: Cato at Liberty
Housing affordability is a serious problem, but state and local regulatory reform is the solution, not federal tax subsidies.