Blue States’ High Tax State-of-Mind
Blue States’ High Tax State-of-Mind
While the Big Beautiful budget bill recently enacted into law has a multiplicity of good, bad, and benign features, the law’s biggest and most beautiful feature is the continuation of the soon-to-expire 2017 income tax reduction enacted in Donald Trump’s first term. Although much of the American press has characterized this as a big gift...
By Richard K. Vedder, Stephen J. Moore
Just Say No to Discrimination
Just Say No to Discrimination
The release of data on incoming freshmen this fall was watched keenly in light of last year’s Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard decision that effectively outlawed race-based affirmative action policies in college admissions. As the data have been released, the picture is mixed. Some schools have seen the expected results: a larger proportion of...
By Richard K. Vedder