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Trump's $1.8 Billion Self-Dealing with His Own Justice Department
More of the Same Self Enrichment Circus
 • Alan Dlugash
Thomas Just Exposed Progressivism’s War on the Declaration — Congress Should Listen
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made an incredible speech on April 15, 2026, at the University of Texas at Austin Law School.
 • Alan Dlugash
California's Destructive Wealth Tax Delusion is a Destructive Fable
California’s proposed wealth tax is not only incredibly inequitable and abusive to taxpayers — it will deliver a massive net economic loss and fail to…
 • Alan Dlugash
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.
 • Alan Dlugash
Congress Built the Tax-Code Monster
My article in the National Review, just in time for Tax Day 2026.
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.
 • 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…
 • Alan Dlugash
Trump’s Trade Claims vs. the Data: Tax Foundation President Daniel Bunn Sets the Record Straight
As I have previously written in this space, the important long-term value of last year's One Big Beautiful Bill lies in its permanent, pro-growth…
 • Alan Dlugash
Trump's Bold Strike Against Disparate Impact: A Step Toward Real Equality – But Is It Enough?
I have written extensively about the madness of "disparate impact" on these pages before.
 • Alan Dlugash
Stephen Moore Nails It on Capital Gains Taxes
Stephen Moore has long pushed for lower capital gains rates, and he’s right.
 • Alan Dlugash
New Yorkers Got Played: Mamdani’s Socialist Con Job
New Yorkers just handed the keys to the city to 34-year-old TikTok socialist Zohran Mamdani—electing him mayor with 50.4% of the vote.
 • Alan Dlugash
Why OBBBA Stifles Growth
Why OBBBA Stifles Growth
 • Alan Dlugash
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