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January 25, 2024
Briefing Paper

No. 172
Reviving Federalism to Tackle the Government Debt Crisis
This study reviews efforts to restrain federal spending and debt, compares federal debt to state debt, and discusses how the states restrain debt.
By Chris Edwards
January 10, 2024
Visual Feature

Freedom to Farm without Subsidies
As Congress debates the next Farm Bill, some farmers are sounding the alarm on the unintended consequences and hidden costs of subsidy programs that are meant to aid the agriculture industry.
By Paul Best
October 26, 2023
Working Paper

No. 78
Has Fed Policy Mattered for Inflation? Evidence from a Structural Monetary Model
Results from a standard monetary model show that supply factors, not monetary policy, are the primary determinants of inflation in the U.S.
By Jai Kedia
October 26, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 170
Cutting International Food Aid
As Congress tackles a major farm bill in coming months, it should consider repealing USDA’s food aid programs.
By Chris Edwards, Colin Grabow, and Krit Chanwong
October 11, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 353
On the Public Finance of Capital Punishment
The United States continues to face scrutiny over its status as the only Western nation with the authority to execute its citizens.
By Alexander Lundberg
August 31, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 162
Cutting Federal Farm Subsidies
Farm subsidies are costly to taxpayers and can distort planting decisions, induce overproduction, and inflate land values.
By Chris Edwards
July 25, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 954
Tax Expenditures and Tax Reform
Congress should cut tax rates and repeal loopholes, but it needs to make sure that it is repealing actual loopholes and moving toward a more neutral tax base.
By Chris Edwards
July 24, 2023
Visual Feature

The Original Sin of U.S. Health Policy
To restore workers’ rights and make health care more universal, Congress must give workers immediate control of the $1.3 trillion of their earnings the tax code lets employers control.
By Michael F. Cannon
June 22, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 952
Adverse Effects of Automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustments to Entitlement and Other Payments
Automatic COLA increases to some federal government benefits and inflation adjustments to eligibility standards for other benefits use price indexes that overstate inflation.
By John F. Early
June 7, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 159
Expensing and the Taxation of Capital Investment
This brief explains how expensing and tax depreciation operate and provides examples that show how delaying investment deductions increase effective tax rates, especially when inflation is high.
By Adam N. Michel
May 11, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 156
How a Better Budget Control Act Would Limit Spending and Control Debt
The last time Congress adopted a major deficit reduction deal was in 2011, following intense debt limit negotiations between then Republican House Speaker John Boehner and then Democratic President Barack Obama.
By Romina Boccia
April 19, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 328
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Many scholars have been concerned that slower growth in countries with heavy labor regulations could be due to firms’ reluctance to innovate given the burden of red tape.
By Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, and John Van Reenen
April 13, 2023
Briefing Paper

No. 151
Four Ways to Simplify Taxpaying
Politicians on both sides of the aisle often get carried away with designing new or expanded tax programs without considering what is already in the tax code and how the whole system works when families file their taxes.
By Adam N. Michel
April 11, 2023
Policy Analysis

No. 942
Transforming the Internal Revenue Service
The root causes of IRS dysfunction are poor management, insufficient oversight, and a mindset fixated on enforcement at the expense of service.
By Joseph Bishop-Henchman
March 21, 2023
White Paper

The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States
With some variation and exceptions, the net fiscal impact of immigrants is more positive than it is for native‐born Americans and positive overall for the federal and state/local governments.
By Alex Nowrasteh, Sarah Eckhardt, and Michael Howard