American Enterprise Institute
Recent News About American Enterprise Institute
-
Ending tax deduction cap would save Illinois taxpayers $3.8 billion, study finds
Repealing the federal cap on itemized state and local tax (SALT) deductions would save Illinois residents an average of $1,080 on their income taxes this year, according to a new study from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
-
Fiscal watchdog: GOP aims to prevent Democrats from throwing money at mismanaged public pension plans
Fiscal watchdogs have alerted taxpayers that Congressional Democrats might attempt to attach a bailout plan for public pensions to one rescuing private sector union pensions, with no changes in the bad practices that led to massive unfunded liabilities in the first place.
-
‘The Once and Future Worker’ and ‘The Forgotten Americans’ Review: Alienated, Angry, in Need of a Job
For too long, the American working class was ignored in politics and public policy. All that changed in 2016. The election served notice that the working class, especially working-class men, felt overlooked, alienated and angry and were desperate enough to try anything—even Donald Trump.
-
PONNURU: Toward a bigger coalition
On Election Night, Republicans were able to tell themselves a comforting story about how the midterms had gone.
-
Illinois is one of the nation’s top cheats in the welfare game
Illinois has mastered the art of gaming the federal food stamp program to where 101 of its 102 counties continue to fall under a recession-era expansion of the program despite near record-low unemployment levels, according to a recent study by the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA).
-
Barfield: Lighthizer and NAFTA’s poison pills: Final bluff or blowup?
The Trump administration has committed to conclude the NAFTA renewal negotiations within the next several weeks — but at the same time has reintroduced a series of poison pill provisions that could blow up the negotiations.
-
Thiessen: There’s nothing wrong with a census question about citizenship
The Trump administration is being sued over its plans to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census, which California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) says “is not just a bad idea — it is illegal.”
-
Thiessen: I’m not unhappy Rick Saccone seems to have lost
I am a rock-ribbed conservative who wants Republicans to keep control of Congress. But I’m not unhappy that Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone appears to have lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District.