Stop the IRS's Stealth $700 Billion Tax Increase By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump has done an admirable job at defanging the IRS, which was converted into a weaponized agency targeting Democrats' political enemies.
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September 10, 2025
September 2, 2025
Trump's Share-the-Wealth Retirement Plan Will Help All Americans By Stephen Moore
The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have long complained about how the rules in Washington and on Wall Street are rigged in favor of the rich.
August 26, 2025
Europe Is Dying -- Are We Next? By Stephen Moore
Let's start with a very simple truism: You can't have prosperity without people.
August 19, 2025
'Drill, Baby, Drill' Is Working By Stephen Moore
Well, so much for the vaunted renewable energy "transition" to save the planet. This was always a fable. We get 80% of our energy from fossil fuels, and with Donald Trump now in the White House, that ratio is rising, not falling.
August 13, 2025
As Many as 1 Million Kids Will Have School Choice This Year By Stephen Moore
This is the dawning of the age of school choice.
August 5, 2025
How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications By Stephen Moore
Trump's announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.
July 29, 2025
Desperately Seeking a Pro-Growth Democrat By Stephen Moore
The most recent Wall Street Journal political poll shows that Democrats have swerved into a deep ditch.
July 23, 2025
The End of Immortality in Washington By Stephen Moore
Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished.
July 15, 2025
Trump Should Index the Capital Gains Tax for Inflation By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump should follow up on his historic "big, beautiful" tax bill with an extra booster shot for the economy by immediately indexing the capital gains taxes for inflation.
July 8, 2025
The Biggest Conservative Victory in 30 Years By Stephen Moore
Everyone knows that the "big, beautiful" tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That's enough reason to heartily celebrate.
June 24, 2025
For America to Win the AI Race, Keep Government's Hands Off By Stephen Moore
At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology.
June 17, 2025
Congress Should Just Say No to a Remittance Tax By Stephen Moore
The House-passed "big, beautiful" tax bill is a tremendous achievement and a giant spark plug for growth. The bill extends all the Trump tax cuts of 2017, thus heading off a $4 trillion tax INCREASE next year. It expands health savings accounts, includes expensing of major capital and research expenditures by businesses, allows more money for school choice, and includes "no tax on tips" and no tax on overtime pay. And that's just for starters.
June 10, 2025
Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong By Stephen Moore
These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results.
June 3, 2025
Trump's Own Regulators Declare War on Coal and Its Investors By Stephen Moore
In one of the most convoluted lawsuits of all time, a cabal of state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are now accusing financial firms BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of monopolistic behavior. The complaint asserts that these firms bought coal stocks and then helped impose radical environmental restrictions on the companies they partially own so that coal output would fall and the price of coal would rise. The lawsuit alleges that this strategy generated "supra-competitive" profits for those investors.
May 20, 2025
Biden Forgives Student Loans and ... Behold, Defaults Skyrocket By Stephen Moore
Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.
May 13, 2025
Cut Taxes on Made-in-America Products By Stephen Moore
As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game.
May 6, 2025
Yes, Let's Attract the Best and the Brightest By Stephen Moore
Situated on the outskirts of Sacramento is California's largest master-planned community, McClellan Park. It has homes, offices, restaurants, a hotel and even a 2-mile-long runway that serves jets. But 30 years ago, the location was a starkly different story: an Air Force base that had just been shuttered, costing 11,600 jobs.
April 30, 2025
Trump's FTC Is Putting American Companies Last By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump's record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing.
April 22, 2025
Sorry, Fannie Mae: We Won't Get Fooled Again
Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?
April 16, 2025
Washington's Latest Tax Assault on Economic Success By Stephen Moore
The PE and VC track records in funding small businesses and turning them into the future gazelles is almost a uniquely American success story.
