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AFP is committed to helping Congress approve the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, rescissions requests, and other ways to get federal finances back on solid ground. Senator Johnson is right to call for getting spending under control. We hope his report helps his colleagues take on this challenge and elevate the structural solutions for Congress to create an effective regular order that supports responsible federal policymaking.
Republicans’ success depends on enacting the big tax, energy, and security changes in the budget reconciliation bill. Members of Congress must embrace wholeheartedly President Trump’s requests to cancel wasteful spending.
The goal of pro-growth tax reform is to broaden the tax base and lower the overall tax rate. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act fulfilled this by eliminating many tax subsidies and carve outs that skewed towards benefiting high earners. The existing tax code is rife with provisions that reduce prosperity. The Tax Cuts and […]
The existing tax code is rife with provisions that encourage people to alter their behavior in socially harmful ways. Tax reform efforts differ from simple tax cutting by attempting to streamline the code and make it less economically destructive.
The federal tax system’s complex and convoluted structure results in it costing far more than the $5 trillion it annually extracts from taxpayers’ pocketbooks. Each year it effectively imposes hundreds of billions in additional surtaxes on the American people in the form of excess burdens, compliance costs, and administrative expenses.
Over the past two months alone, audits and investigations published by Inspectors General have uncovered wasteful spending practices that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars with little to no benefit and sometimes in direct violation of federal law.
Educational freedom, pro-growth tax reform, and personalized health care are among the most important priorities being held back by federal and state governments’ wasteful spending and excessive debt. Effective budget targets can help policymakers do better and unleash even more American potential.
Join American Potential host David From as he dives into a critical topic with Patrick Fleernor, a tax policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity: the far-reaching impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and its looming expiration in 2025.
In this episode of American Potential, host Jeff Crank sits down with Kurt Couchman, Senior Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, to dive into AFP’s hard-hitting report, the “Bidenflation Blame Game.”
