The problem isn’t the number of dollars Illinois gets back from Washington. It’s the number of dollars Illinois sends Washington in the first place.

Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxes businesses.

What we need is a windfall profits tax on government. Government makes far more money per gallon than the oil companies do.

Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.

It is absolutely staggering the amount of money the oil companies already pay in taxes. Government has profited more from the oil industry than the oil industry has profited from consumers.

You’re foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden the base, you raise taxes on people who pay nothing, and if you lower rates you...

These findings raise serious questions about the future of the U.S. income tax system. The majority of the federal tax burden is being borne by a shrinking pool of taxpayers. As Congress considers tax reform...

If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.

It’s bad for the federal government to rely on a shrinking group of American to pay all the bills and exclude millions of people from paying their fair share or some share.

You had a president who was clearly committed to fundamental tax reform, and we assumed that they would be taking that commitment to heart.

If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it’s a very complicated corporate tax system, very...

Instead, what we see is yet another blue-ribbon panel tinkering around the edges of a system that is absolutely broken.

In fact, for Illinois to have equaled New Mexico’s sweet deal — $2 back for every $1 it paid in federal taxes — Washington would have to funnel 20 percent of all federally appropriated dollars...

Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.

States do not enact tax changes in a vacuum. Every tax change will affect a state’s competitive position relative to its neighbors, as well as globally.

Alaska has the third best tax system for business in the nation for the second year in a row.

Alaska, in many respects, is a cheaper tax place to do business and should be a very attractive place for companies to locate or expand in.