vice president of state affairs at Americans for Tax Reform, @BeaconTN senior fellow.

Joined July 2008
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This talking point will never end. At best it will die in the face of the reality that Talarico is talking about raising taxes on new investment and R&D. At worst the awful corporate alternative minimum tax overstays its welcome or gets worse.
🚨 James Talarico proposes a bill to close all corporate tax loopholes. "The biggest welfare queens in America are the giant corporations that don't pay a penny in income taxes."
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A new NAHB study estimates that regulations and fees increase the cost of a typical new home by 26%, or around $131,734.
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The panic over data centers is escalating. If anti-growth activists and NIMBYs succeed in blocking the infrastructurebehind artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital commerce, America won’t stop needing those services. It will simply build less of that infrastructure here and hand more of the strategic advantage to China. My latest at @dcexaminer: washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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If Gavin Newsom had a trillion dollars to spend he would build housing for exactly 43 homeless people and it would take 15 years. x.com/gavinnewsom/status/206…

Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.
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You earned it.
I'm honored to be elected president of the @whca for 2028–2029. I look forward to serving my colleagues across the White House press corps to ensure robust and independent coverage of the presidency. I’m excited to build on the strengths of the association, including our shared commitment to a free and fair press.
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In my latest for the WSJ, I document how the California Billionaire Tax proposition is built on a bed of statistical lies and data manipulation by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, the two economists who helped design the proposal.
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🚨 One of the nation’s largest teachers, unions, @AFTunion (led by the infamous left-wing activist @RWeingarten), has made clear that political activism is its top priority — and that prioritization of politics, over the well being of its members, may have just landed Randi and her cronies in hot water 👇 Today, we’re calling on the Department of Labor to investigate whether @AFTunion is using its influence over teacher pension systems to advance a political agenda. Our belief is that @AFTunion’s political activism directly conflicts with the fiduciary obligations owed by public pension trustees (which the @AFTunion openly acknowledges it influences). There are a litany of examples of this. To name a few, @AFTunion and @RWeingarten have supported: - Pressure campaigns targeting firearm manufacturers - Fossil fuel divestment initiatives - Consumer boycotts against Target over its DEI policies - Threats of divestment from GM and Stellantis over union demands In 2025, Weingarten even demanded asset managers divest from Tesla, citing purely political concerns about @ElonMusk, claiming she was “safeguarding workers’ retirements.” (Tesla stock has increased by more than 40% since she made those comments.) It appears clear to us that union leadership is encouraging teachers and trustees to economically pressure companies that may also be generating returns for teacher retirement systems. We’re calling on @USDOL Acting Secretary @Sonderling47 to take a closer look to ensure that teachers’ retirement systems aren’t being used to push a political agenda.
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This stinks. I wonder if there is something NC’s Ag Commissioner or the GOP-led General Assembly can do to make sure NC is represented #ncpol
News: Six states plan to sit out the Great American State Fair. At least three others remain uncommitted two weeks before the fair opens on the National Mall. Organizers say "all states and territories will be represented" but who will be repping them isn't final. Reporting w/ @MonninJenna and @torriestorie. Full story 🔗⬇️
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Great article. Same energy as Louis CK’s Everything Is Amazing and Nobody is Happy bit youtu.be/kBLkX2VaQs4?si=-DZZ…
This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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Dominion's new filing to recover RGGI costs indicates that it will cost the typical residential consumer an additional $13 per month ($156 per year). Filing linked below. Business and industrial customers will see increased bills as well. scc.virginia.gov/docketsearc…

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It will be blamed on data centers.
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A year after NC opened Opportunity Scholarships to all incomes, the money still skews to families who need it most: lower-income households pull in 66% of voucher dollars, per new state data. The figures land as Gov. Stein and House Democrats push to cap who qualifies. carolinajournal.com/2-3-of-n… #ncga #ncpol #ednc @CarolinaJournal
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NC Senator Tim Moffitt just finished presenting in committee on a universal occupational licensing recognition bill that is modeled after a reform that has proven successful in Arizona and more than 20 other states
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Late-arriving ballots in Los Angeles County are overwhelmingly and consistently in favor of raising the sales tax from 9.75% to 10.25%. (Many cities are already higher; Lancaster and Palmdale would go to 11.75% with the passage of this measure.) Update on June 7:
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LA Measure ER has crept up to 49.2% as the count grinds on, now within reach of passing. Many election workers belong to SEIU 721 which has put $500K into the Yes on ER campaign and will benefit if the sales tax passes.
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It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.
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A bill mandating that pharmacists receive a $10.18 "dispensing fee" for each prescription - which applies to health plans covering smaller employers and individuals - passed the NYS Assembly on the last day of session. It would add ~$570M per year to drug costs
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A major new study published today by a panel of Democrats and Republicans ranks states by quality of life. The states at the top aren't the richest, and they don't have the highest tax rates -- although they do seem to do an unusually good job executing policy and sharing the wealth that they create. Often they have opposition parties strong enough to keep ruling parties nervous and effective. To see which state ranks No. 1 and how your state ranks (slight tease!), here's a gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/06/opini…
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Illinois lawmakers didn't think through their definition of social media platforms. The new tax could capture WhatsApp, GitHub, Teams, Slack, Goodreads, Google Groups, iCloud, iMessage, Dropbox, Strava, Salesforce, Yelp, Indeed, Substack, maybe even Gmail accounts. #ILPolitics
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