Author: John Seiler

Tax cutting should be simple. We’ve done it before, the best ones being the 1964 JFK/LBJ reduction of income taxes across the board, with the top rate dropping to 70% from 91%; and Reagan’s 1981 cuts, with the top rate dropping further, to 50%. President Trump campaigned repeatedly on tax cuts – and won on that promise. Unfortunately, now his administration is stuck, with the cuts delayed until after August. Part of the reason is Trump’s recent embrace of “revenue neutrality,” as explained in an op-ed by four of the president’s campaign advisers on taxes: Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur...

Here’s what President Trump should do to deal with the Deep State that, with the connivance of ex-President Obama, is attacking the new presidency: Trump should ask for letters of resignation the top military officers and intelligence officials, then accept all the resignations. And the ex-officers and officials should be banned for life from getting jobs anywhere in the military-industrial complex, or in anything even close to the military. Let them take their plush pensions and leave us alone. Would some worthy officers get thrown in with the bad ones? Yes, but no government job should be a sinecure. Fired...

As I noted in my recent article here, “The Supreme Court: The Most Dangerous Branch,” the third branch of government has aggrandized central power beyond that even imagined by the most fevered early Hamiltonians. The country will be revisiting the court’s history and makeup as Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the open space, begins confirmation hearings on March 20. Now is a great time to ask the question: Would there be a better way to structure the court, assuming the rest of the Constitution remained intact? I submit the following reform. The idea is to restore to the several...

  It hasn’t been easy, but Trump has put in a great first month as president.  As he said, he “inherited a mess.”  The mess goes back not just through the whole eight years of the Obama regime, but at least through the Bushes and Clintons. We can stop there, because the end of the Cold War, 1989-91, marked a time when America could have used a “peace dividend” to regroup, heal domestic wounds and develop a sensible foreign policy. Instead, in foreign affairs, America’s unique power of the 1990s was wasted on establishing first  President George H.W. Bush’s New...

By John Seiler President Trump – it’s great writing that! – now is facing a problem similar to that of President Reagan in 1981: His own fellow Republicans are obstructing his agenda. For Reagan, the main problem was the old “root canal Republicans,” such as Bob Dole, then the chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee. The phrase derived from Democrats going on huge spending binges, then Republicans being the supposed “adults” who performed painful oral surgery with tax increases to pay for everything, as they did under President Eisenhower in 1953 and President Nixon in 1969. The result was Republicans...