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March 19, 2018
Tax Notes

Vol. 87 No. 12
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Retaining the Remote Retail Sales Tax Exemption Would Boost Growth
… suppliers. Walmart’s successes forced its retail competitors to follow suit and increase Ike Brannon is the president of Capital Policy Analytics and a visiting senior fellow at the Cato Institute. In this viewpoint, Brannon argues that requiring all online …
By Ike Brannon
March 16, 2018
Blog

Economists Fail at Forecasting and Micromanaging
… s perspective on the economy seems to be lagging behind. The Fed’s forecasts understated the dampening impacts of tax policy and growing web of burdensome regulations through 2016, and those policy thrusts have now reversed. The pickup in economic …
By Chris Edwards
March 16, 2018
Blog

Local Taxes: Death by “Special Revitalization”
… too late. Whoever wins in the court challenge, the episode symbolizes a wider problem. Specialists in local and state government policy are full of ideas for business‐by‐business and location‐by‐location tinkering with tax rates, both downward (as …
By Walter Olson
March 16, 2018
Blog

A Problem With Pigouvian Taxes
Poilicymakers often look at activities which generate social costs and reach for Pigouvian taxes. But these taxes often don’t neatly target the externalities idenitified.
By Ryan Bourne
March 16, 2018
Blog

Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Takes Aim at the Global Trading System
Not since Herbert Hoover has a U.S. president been so cavalier about the consequences of protectionism. Never has a president been more dismissive of the importance of trade to our prosperity and security. Never has a president been so impervious to the lessons of history.
By Daniel J. Ikenson
March 16, 2018
World Trade Review

Access to Trade Justice: Fixing NAFTA’s Flawed State-to-State Dispute Settlement Process
By Simon Lester, Inu Manak, and Andrej Arpas
March 16, 2018
Blog

One Week Left To Get Exemptions from the Steel/Aluminum Tariffs
If these tariffs are actually imposed, there will be significant harm to the domestic economy and the very real prospect of retaliation.
By Simon Lester
March 15, 2018
Cato Daily Podcast

#CatoConnects: NAFTA and the Trump Tariffs
Featuring Inu Manak, Simon Lester, and Caleb O. Brown
March 15, 2018
Forbes.com

A Message for the New U.S. Economic Czar, Larry Kudlow
U.S. trade deficits are not caused by “unfair” trade practices. They are made in the good old U.S.A.
By Steve H. Hanke
March 15, 2018
Article

Internet Sales Taxes and the Discriminatory Burden on Remote Retailers – An Economic Analysis
By Ike Brannon, Michelle Hanlon, and Eric Miller
March 15, 2018
American Conservative

Trump Should Test North Korea with the Offer of a Grand Bargain
If Kim is serious about disarming, Trump should offer a Korean peace treaty, diplomatic recognition, and an end to economic sanctions.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
March 13, 2018
Blog

Economists United against Trump Tariffs
Expert economists unanimously agree that President Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum are bad news for Americans.
By Ryan Bourne
Spring 2018
Regulation

Putting 97 Million Households through the Wringer
By imposing “safeguard” tariffs, President Trump has delivered corporate welfare at the expense of Americans.
By Pierre Lemieux
March 13, 2018
Blog

Farewell, Rex
Another member of Trump’s cabinet bites the dust. His replacement moves the White House in a more hawkish direction.
By Emma Ashford
March 13, 2018
Cato Daily Podcast

#Rexit at State Department, Mike Pompeo, and Gina Haspel
Featuring Christopher A. Preble, Emma Ashford, and Caleb O. Brown

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Retaining the Remote Retail Sales Tax Exemption Would Boost Growth

Economists Fail at Forecasting and Micromanaging

Local Taxes: Death by “Special Revitalization”

A Problem With Pigouvian Taxes

Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Takes Aim at the Global Trading System

Access to Trade Justice: Fixing NAFTA’s Flawed State-to-State Dispute Settlement Process

One Week Left To Get Exemptions from the Steel/Aluminum Tariffs

#CatoConnects: NAFTA and the Trump Tariffs

A Message for the New U.S. Economic Czar, Larry Kudlow

Internet Sales Taxes and the Discriminatory Burden on Remote Retailers – An Economic Analysis

Trump Should Test North Korea with the Offer of a Grand Bargain

Economists United against Trump Tariffs

Putting 97 Million Households through the Wringer

Farewell, Rex

#Rexit at State Department, Mike Pompeo, and Gina Haspel