Energy Companies Sued for Being Energy Companies
By Jibran Khan • National Review Numerous jurisdictions are suing energy companies. Not for fraud or white-collar crime, but for the effects of climate change. Bill de Blasio, mayor of…
Uber And Lyft Are Hurting Mass Transit? There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Investor’s Business Daily Chicago recently started taxing users of increasingly popular ride-sharing services so it could spend more on its increasingly unpopular mass transit rail service. This sort of thinking…
3 Reasons Trump Should Have Vetoed The $1.3 Trillion Spending Monstrosity
Investor’s Business Daily Some Republicans were complaining that they didn’t know what was in the massive $1.3 trillion “omnibus” spending bill they voted on this week. But it’s what’s not…
A Chance To Really End Welfare As We Know It
Investor’s Business Daily Thanks to a revived economy spinning out jobs, the number of people on food stamps dropped by 2 million people last year, according to a new report.…
Tax Cuts Work — Just Ask Small Businesses
Brian Ellis • Investor’s Business Daily Employers have until Thursday to implement new tax withholding guidelines, which determine how much they withhold from pay for federal taxes. Fortunately for many…
Feds to repeal 298 tax regulations
By Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon The Treasury Department plans to eliminate nearly 300 outdated tax regulations, getting tax rules off the books that in some cases have not…
Apple Repatriates Overseas Holdings Thanks to Trump Tax Reform
By Tripp Mickle • Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. AAPL 1.65% said it would pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings and ramp up spending…
The Postal Service Needs To Overhaul Its Leadership And Get Its Act Together
With tax reform now in the rear view mirror on President Donald Trump’s list of priorities, it is clear now that he has another mishandled federal issue in his sights…
Get Ready for Economic Liftoff
The supposedly smart people said Donald Trump would destroy the U.S. economy if he were elected president. They were wrong. On Thursday, the Dow broke 25,000 for the first time…
The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse Strings
By Binyamen Appelbaum and Jim Tankersly • New York Times WASHINGTON — A wave of optimism has swept over American business leaders, and it is beginning to translate into the…
The Tax Cut Bill Is Just the Beginning
The Republicans have kicked off the New Year with an earnest effort to sell the American public on the benefits of the tax bill just passed. It’s better than nothing,…
GOP Business Tax Cuts Force Other Countries to Compete
By Dan McLaughlin • National Review The Republican tax plan has a lot of moving parts, but its centerpiece is a major long-term cut in corporate taxes. American businesses have…
Trump administration ending ‘sue and settle’ is an important First step
Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is taking the lead on this, but expect it to spread to other agencies, including the DOJ. It’s a good start,…
The White House Shoots for the Moon
Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump signed a space policy directive to “restore American leadership in space.” To the excitement of many, this directive includes sending men back to…
Dear Liberals, Ownership Isn’t Theft
by David French • National Review I’m starting to think that all too many Democrats believe that private citizens and private corporations don’t actually own their private income or their…