Dozens of states have a general sales tax. In Illinois, the tax covers consumer goods, but not services. That's a mistake, ...

Unilateral presidential changes to the federal budget are unconstitutional. Full stop.

United Nations member states began negotiating a first-ever treaty on international tax cooperation that could replace the ...

Councillors moved motions on expenses big and small as they sought to add or remove items from the 2025 budget for the City ...

Despite a CT law ensuring the money would be used to counteract the epidemic, Lamont wants to tap into it to pay for social ...

Edward Plaut (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Spending Clause Standing (123 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Biden Administration’s American Rescue ...

The Mercatus Center has one of the best summaries of what it calls "anti-aid provisions" in state constitutions across the ...

There are a lot of known unknowns about exactly how Republicans will approach the major tax and spending issues facing the new Congress. But one thing is clear: Low-income Americans are going to ...

Besides ERP, two matters got special attention. One was taxes. Minnesota’s dogged Harold Knutson was determined to get fast action on his bill to save taxpayers an estimated $5.6 billion.

If the general-welfare language wasn’t meant to create a general spending power, what was its function? Well, originally, it barred federal tax funds from flowing to states or localities. Of course, ...

The national debt, currently at $36.3 trillion and growing, is a boulder weighing on economic prosperity. The money lent to the government with every purchase of a note, bill, or bond, as ...

With governments desperate for more tax revenue after a year of spending vast amounts on various forms of pandemic support, the political mood has changed, and previously unthinkable breaches with ...