Tag: aims
A New Tax Proposal Aims to Shore Up Social Security by Expanding the Payroll Tax Base to Employer Fringe Benefits
As the looming insolvency of the Social Security trust funds draws closer, policymakers and economic analysts are increasingly exploring innovative ways to secure long-term revenue. Traditional debates around shoring up the program have largely centered on raising the overall payroll tax rate or lifting the payroll tax cap to subject a greater portion of high-earner…
White House Crypto Office Vacant as Final Adviser Patrick Witt Departs, Leaving Policy Aims in Limbo
The departure of President Donald Trump’s final crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, has left the White House digital assets office entirely vacant and cast a shadow of uncertainty over the administration’s broader policy goals for the sector. When President Trump returned to the White House last year, he decisively shed his earlier public skepticism toward cryptocurrency…
How Federal Tax Policy Penalizes New Rental Housing—And How a New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Fix It
America’s ongoing housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a crisis of insufficient supply. Across the political spectrum, housing analysts, policy researchers, and economists—including experts from the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for American Progress—agree that the United States needs millions of new housing units. Building this new inventory is essential to achieving critical national housing…
