Daniel Bunn
@danieldbunn
President and CEO @taxfoundation. Work hard. Work smart. Work together.
There's loads of protectionism out there these days. Keep your eyes open. Stay safe everybody.
"Reagan concluded free-trade agreements with Israel and Canada, vetoed protectionist legislation, rejected import relief for industries from footwear to copper, and helped launch the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks." @D_A_Irwin
Had to write a letter on the effort of national conservatives to draft Reagan to their side Letters: Reagan Prized Free Markets wsj.com/opinion/reagan… via @WSJopinion
Periodic reminder that we already have a solution for people who don't think they're taxed enough. There has been an account at the Treasury since 1843 where you can give the government more of your money if you want to:
Due to increasing education/income polarization, we now have the strange phenomenon of rich liberals getting tax cuts from Trump they don’t want
Democrats' Social Security scaremongering in 2005 made today's retirees poorer and helped ensure the program's insolvency, but it was Republicans who wanted to push granny off a cliff.
Bluey continues a long tradition of children learning musical themes in the context of cartoons. Just like I often remember Elmer Fudd singing Wagner and Bugs Bunny massaging Fudd's scalp to Rossini, my kids now associate melodies from Grieg and Mozart with the Heelers.
Piper Sandler is predicting that the entire White House tariff agenda will be ruled unconstitutional by the courts in the coming weeks/months. fortune.com/2025/07/25/tru…
It’s definitely a loss for Americans. We have to pay more taxes!
The Democrats and Media trying to explain how America imposing a 15% tariff on EU imports and the EU imposing a 0% tariff on American imports is a loss for President Trump and Americans.
the pitch to carmakers right now seems to be “build in the US and you’ll have to pay a 50% tariff on your steel and a 25% tariff on your car parts. Or build in EU/Japan and you’ll only have to pay a 15% tariff” What are we even doing here
You know the economists warned if we ate our seed corn we’d have no crops but we ate the seed corn months ago and we’re fine
So, Superman is really just about ethics in superhero journalism, @AlexParkerDC?
Happy Gilmore 2 is out today. It's a nice reminder that, without property taxes, Happy would have remained a failed hockey player and never achieved his potential as a professional golfer.
Holy crap
🚨NEW ANALYSIS: Retirees face an $18,000 benefit cut in just seven years unless lawmakers act to avert Social Security insolvency. Based on Trustees data in combination with the impact of OBBBA, a dual-income couple retiring in 2033 faces a 24% cut upon insolvency, or $18,100.…
My new Capitolism @TheDispatch is on the OBBBA. Spoiler: it's not all bad and, in fact, has some really good parts. But, alas, there are also many bad parts. Very. Bad. Parts. "The Three Best—and Worst—Things in Trump’s Big Tax Law" thedispatch.com/newsletter/cap…
Biggest headaches for IRS to implement from the OBBB include new tax breaks on tips and overtime, a new tax break for factories and the phase out of wind and solar
TAX NEWS: Treasury Department and a downsized IRS face a ‘perfect storm’ as taxpayers and employers seek details regarding Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill" bloomberg.com/news/articles/… with @reilly_cait
Only about 15% of home sellers pay capital gains tax on the sale, and those are heavily concentrated in affluent Democratic districts that just got a SALT windfall.
Congress set the current $250k/$500k exclusion in 1997 and hasn't touched it. Would hunch that a geography of beneficiaries from removing that cap would look a lot like SALT cap geography. wsj.com/livecoverage/s…
Another UTPR critical piece, this time from two US based tax specialists. taxnotes.com/tax-notes-inte…
Remembering Ed Feulner, a magnanimous, big house soul. The man built Heritage and much else -- as noted, a regular George Washington. nytimes.com/2025/07/20/obi…