Trump’s national emergency declaration is worse than the 59 others declared by presidents since 1976 because it was employed to usurp the express power of the purse—the most important congressional check on executive abuses.

Liberal lawmakers have even cited the smaller refunds as evidence that the 2017 tax cuts were actually a ‘middle-class tax hike.’ That’s nonsense.

The income tax allows the government to confiscate the wealth of its citizens. The curse of the withholding tax is that it allows the government to commit this crime systematically, effortlessly, painlessly, and benevolently.

The $6 billion Lincoln Yards development is set to advance Tuesday with the endorsement of the Community Development Commission — despite continued calls for delays from opponents … who contend the corruption scandal swirling around City Hall means the next mayor and City Council should decide the fate of the project along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Pritzker campaigned in 2018 on a promise to balance the state’s budget while at the same time increasing funding for education, addressing the state’s underfunded pension systems, paying down the state’s $8 billion backlog of unpaid bills and making new investments in the state’s roads, bridges and other public infrastructure. But what, exactly, constitutes a “balanced” budget can be open to interpretation.

Dan Mitchell, chairman for the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, said the governor's proposals lack changes that would lower the cost of Illinois' bloated government enough to stem the state's continuing population losses.

President Donald Trump, through an executive order he signed last Monday, doubled down on making artificial intelligence research a top priority for the public and private sectors.

Among the other problems mentioned in the report, the NTA addressed the need for taxpayer questions to be answered year round, especially those relating to the TCJA, as well as broadening the scope of what constitutes an allowable question.

The compromise was eventually reached because the Italian government has curbed the three main electoral promises – citizenship income, abolishment of the pension reform and (for 2020 and 2021) safeguards on the value added tax (VAT).

The Committee on Climate Change has issued “unequivocal advice” to the government not to carry forward an emissions surplus from the second carbon budget to subsequent accounting periods.