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It's Finally Time to Repeal the Jones Act for Good
The Jones Act as I’ve written about numerous times substantially increases the cost of delivering oil from the US Gulf Coast to other places in the US.
Apr 26
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Alan Dlugash
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Tax Day Reality Check: No Real Tax Cuts, Just $4.2 Trillion in New Debt and More Bureaucracy
I’ve written extensively on these pages about the disasters of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Apr 23
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Alan Dlugash
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Congress Built the Tax-Code Monster
My article in the National Review, just in time for Tax Day 2026.
Apr 16
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Hungary’s Voters Just Fired a Crook —Too Bad JD Vance Still Worships Him
Viktor Orbán is a crook who turned Hungary from a free-market success story into an authoritarian crony state that cozied up to Putin’s Russia.
Apr 15
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Alan Dlugash
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No Tax on Overtime’ Was Always a Lie—Now It’s a $50 Billion Overclaim Disaster
The so-called “no tax on overtime“ is a textbook bait-and-switch in which taxpayers were promised no tax on overtime and got something very much less.
Apr 13
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Alan Dlugash
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Hochul’s Humiliating Flip-Flop: From “Jump on a Bus to Florida” to “Please Come Home and Pay Our Taxes
New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s hypocritical campaign to lure wealthy residents back from Florida exposes everything wrong with high-tax…
Apr 2
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Alan Dlugash
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March 2026
Trump’s Housing Red Tape Executive Order Is a Great Idea—Now Make It the Template to Gut Government Interference Everywhere and Shame the…
I have regularly praised President Trump on his policies and actions that have reduced taxes and regulation.
Mar 31
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Alan Dlugash
Trump’s $550 Billion Japan “Investment Win” Is Economic Smoke and Mirrors
Trump’s loud boasts about locking in $550 billion in new Japanese investment commitments — and similar demands he makes on China — are pure baloney that…
Mar 26
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Alan Dlugash
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Trump’s Section 122 Scam: Billions in Tariffs on a Law That’s Been Dead Since 1971
Trump’s tariff regime has been declared totally unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, yet he immediately replaced it with new tariffs under Section 122…
Mar 25
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Alan Dlugash
Trump's Tariff Refund Flip-Flop: Blatant White House Lies and a Slap in the Face to the Constitution
The Trump administration’s sudden excuses and delays on tariff refunds, after vowing to courts they’d be quick and easy, expose blatant dishonesty and a…
Mar 18
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Alan Dlugash
Trump's State of the Union: All Hype, No Fix for the Real Fiscal Trainwreck
State of the Union (SOTU) speeches are always a circus of presidential puffery—wild exaggerations mixed with pie-in-the-sky proposals that come with…
Mar 18
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Alan Dlugash
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The Jones Act: Still A Costly Obstacle to Efficient Gasoline Supply
The Jones Act—a 106-year-old maritime law requiring goods shipped between U.S.
Mar 15
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Alan Dlugash
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