Economic Progress

In an op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times, Dana Wade, senior research fellow at Stand Together Trust, discusses the complicated United States’ tax code: A tax code that long can’t truly be understood by any one person. To give you a sense of how complicated the tax code is, think about it this way: Americans will […]

At the end of 2016, Dana Wade writes, some loopholes in the tax code will expire, along with the unfair benefits that flow towards special interests. In her op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, Wade explains why Congress should allow these loopholes, called “tax extenders,” to expire: Many tax extenders, so named because they represent […]

Journalist Henry Hazlitt popularized the ideas of Austrian economics and was a co-founder of the Foundation for Economic Education. Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) was a well-known journalist and economics writer for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The New York Times. He popularized the ideas of Austrian economics and was a co-founder […]

On November 15, Stand Together Trust held an event on Capitol Hill entitled “Taxing Times: Ending Cronyism in the Code” to explore how our complicated tax code benefits politicians, lobbyists, and special interests. Like any other form of corporate welfare, the government’s use of the tax code to play favorites creates a two-tiered society that […]

Writing for RealClearSports, Dana Wade, senior research fellow for Stand Together Trust, writes about how taxpayers oftentimes subsidize sports stadiums: “Roger Noll, an economist at Stanford who has analyzed the issue for decades, maintains that NFL stadiums don’t grow the local economy and don’t raise enough tax revenue to recoup the city’s investment. In fact, according […]

Writing for the American Thinker, Jordan Campbell, policy and research assistant at Stand Together Trust, discusses how USDA commodity buy-outs are the “tip of the iceberg” for tax-payer funded agricultural bailouts: “The majority of these payments are simply taxpayer-funded subsidies disguised as insurance programs – most of which will go to a concentrated few. The Environmental […]

Ludwig von Mises, author of Human Action, focused on how individuals’ choices are an important factor in the study of economics. September 29 marks the birthday of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), an influential leader in the Austrian School of economic thought who challenged the ideas of socialism and government intervention that were increasingly popular in […]

Floridians overwhelmingly support criminal justice reform, according to a new public opinion survey released by The James Madison Institute and Stand Together Trust. “For the past few years as we’ve worked in the criminal justice arena, we have experienced first hand the changing debate on these issues. The poll solidified what we’ve come to know—Floridians […]

For more than 100 years, Americans have observed the first Monday of September as Labor Day. Dedicated to “the social and economic achievements of American workers,” the holiday serves as an annual tribute to “the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of country.” But while most of us enjoy the holiday as […]

Two new studies published by researchers at the University of Southern California could lead many states to draw the curtain on programs granting tax relief to film and TV productions. The first study, which looks at data from 1998-2013 across 40 states, concludes that most of the incentives “had little to no sustained impact on […]