As we head into the midterms, longtime S-CORP allies David Winston and Myra Miller of The Winston Group joined us to walk through their latest polling on tax policy, spending, and where the voters stand heading into the next big tax fight.

With concerns over debt, deficits, and Social Security’s pending insolvency mounting, the Winston Group’s research suggests Main Street enters the debate from a position of strength, but only if we build a foundation of understanding upon a number of key economic realities.

As we’ve covered before, when voters are …

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One of the narratives Main Street needs to counter is that the tax cuts enacted in 2017 and 2025 are depriving the federal government of necessary revenue. As our friends at the Winston Group make clear in a recent video, revenues from individuals and corporations alike are up sharply, even when inflation is taken into account:

Here’s what they say in the accompanying write-up:

• From 2017 to 2025, revenues to the federal government increased 58%. Inflation increased 31% over that same timeframe, but revenues increased at almost twice the …
  
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S-Corp has argued that fixing Social Security’s pending insolvency will require some creative thinking, including scrapping outdated, harmful wage taxes. They were a bad idea when Social Security was created, and they’re an even worse idea now. It’s an aggressive approach, but given the size of our fiscal challenges, now is the time for aggressive policies.

A recent op-ed by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Moreno moves in the opposite direction by subjecting all wages to the Social Security tax. It seeks to “fix” the problem of Social Security insolvency the way Congress always has – by throwing more …

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Long-time S-Corp ally George Callas is out with a great piece on the history of the NIIT and how the effort to expand the tax to active business income is nothing more than a money grab built on revisionist history. Congress exempted active business income from the NIIT on purpose, and for good reason.

This is a big deal for S corporations. As George explains:

Despite this extensive effort by both Congress and Treasury to limit the NII tax to taxpayers who “lived off investments,” the proponents of higher taxes are now characterizing the exemption of active business income as …

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