Many view the 2017 Republican tax reform – The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) – as a giveaway to the rich. “The most regressive tax cut in the past 50 years.”
Charles Sauer
Study: 83% of the tax cut did not go to the very rich
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) represents the most significant change in U.S. taxation
since 1986. The bill’s fairness and welfare impacts have been studied and widely debated. But
prior distributional analyses suffer from three shortcomings.
Goodman at Forbes: Lower Cost, Higher Quality Health Care Is Right At Our Fingertips
Telemedicine is making better care, quicker care and life-saving care available to more patients every day.
Kotlikoff at Forbes: The Supreme Court Just Clobbered Small Business
The compliance cost of hiring the sales-tax processing company, paying our accountant and responding to the weekly and sometimes daily letters about filing this form or that is already costing my company $50,000 a year.
Goodman on Fox: Obamacare has Caused a Race to the Bottom
The only insurers that are succeeding are Medicaid contractors and the plans they are selling look like Medicaid. They exclude the best doctors and the best hospitals, John Goodman tells Fox News.
Hayworth on CNN: Modern families are Living with Outdated Laws
Tax law, labor law, employee benefits law, Social Security and a host of other institutions assume the husband will work, the wife will stay home and they will never get divorced, Nan Hayworth tells CNN Headline News. Hayworth’s new Goodman Institute study reviews the major changes that are needed.
Hayworth on Hardball: Candidates Should Run on Issues, Not on Trump
Members of congress must represent their districts, not the White House agenda, says Nan Hayworth on MSNBC.
Kotlikoff at Forbes: Social Security Sues a 6-Year-Old
Dylan Youngblood is a 6-year-old living in Woodstock, Georgia. His mom, Melissa Blair, died on April 22, 2017, thanks to an uninsured drunk driver. His dad has been on disability for a number of years and is unable to care for him.
Nan Hayworth on Fox: Don’t Abolish ICE
We need immigration reform, not open borders, Nan Hayworth tells Fox News.
Goodman on Fox: Obamacare Premiums Have Tripled
Expect large premium hikes right before the election. In the last three years premiums in the Obamacare exchanges have doubled and tripled, John Goodman tells Fox News.