Americans for Tax Reform

05/29/2026

Hospital prices have surged 281% over the past 25 years, far outpacing inflation and wage growth, yet patients are not seeing better care in return. Why? Government policies have distorted the healthcare market by rewarding consolidation, shielding hospitals from competition, and encouraging dependence on taxpayer dollars rather than patient satisfaction.

Programs like 340B, provider tax financing schemes, and the Affordable Care Act’s ban on physician-owned hospitals have helped large hospital systems grow more powerful while driving up costs for everyone else. Meanwhile, independent practices and physician-owned hospitals; which often deliver higher quality care at lower costs, are pushed out of the market.

Lawmakers should pursue site-neutral payment reform, rein in harmful financing gimmicks, roll back Certificate-of-Need laws, and restore competition in healthcare. Patients deserve a system that rewards quality and affordability, not political favoritism and consolidation.

Hospital prices have been increasing steadily while the overall quality of care for the American taxpayer has not. Meanwhile, Americans have been fed the

05/28/2026

High-tax blue states are increasingly pushing to expand their taxing authority beyond their own borders, threatening taxpayers, remote workers, and businesses across the country.

Weakening longstanding protections against interstate taxation could expose Americans to overlapping tax claims, double taxation, and aggressive revenue grabs from states looking to export their tax burden elsewhere.

States should compete by lowering taxes and improving their business climate, not by reaching across state lines to tax nonresidents.

05/27/2026

Washington politicians want a new car tax.

They’ll start with EVs and come for the rest of us later.

Grover Norquist explains how the IRS could work with state DMVs to collect it.

05/26/2026

Oklahoma cut its business tax rate from 6% to 4%.

Revenue didn’t collapse. It increased.

“When I cut taxes, the money doesn’t disappear. It just stays in the people’s pocket.” — Gov. Kevin Stitt

Lower taxes. More growth. More taxpayers.

05/21/2026

Lawsuit abuse doesn’t just hurt businesses. It raises prices for renters, drivers, and everyday American families.

Congress should modernize the Graves Amendment to include peer-to-peer car sharing and stop excessive litigation from driving up costs and limiting consumer choice.

05/20/2026

Taxpayers scored a major win last night.

Congratulations to these Taxpayer Protection Pledge signers for winning their Republican primaries:

• Rep. Andy Barr
• Ed Gallrein
• Ralph Alvarado
• Houston Gaines
• Rep. Clayton Fuller

By signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, these candidates made a written commitment to oppose and vote against any and all tax increases if elected to Congress.

Voters in Kentucky and Georgia backed candidates committed to lower taxes, limited government, and pro-growth economic policy.

05/17/2026

Congress should reject efforts to expand the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The RFS is a federal mandate that distorts energy markets, raises compliance costs, and forces government-driven fuel policies onto consumers and businesses.

Washington should not be picking winners and losers in America’s energy economy through subsidies and mandates.

Americans for Tax Reform urges members of the House to reject the National Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (H.R. 1346). This legislation would lead to

05/16/2026

Brazil is advancing a sweeping digital regulation bill that would hit American tech companies with new restrictions, government mandates, and increased censorship pressure.

Foreign governments should not be targeting successful U.S. businesses with discriminatory regulations designed to punish American innovation and expand state control online.

As Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrives in Washington for talks with President Trump, the our president should make it clear that

05/15/2026

Inflation shouldn’t create a hidden tax hike on investment.

Taxing inflationary “gains” punishes savers, investors, and retirees even when there’s little or no real profit.

Ending the inflation tax on capital gains would help middle-class Americans build wealth.

05/14/2026

Arkansas continues moving in the right direction on tax policy.

Gov. Sarah Sanders and Arkansas Republicans have enacted yet another income tax cut, continuing the state’s progress toward a more competitive, pro-growth economy.

Lower income taxes help families keep more of what they earn while making Arkansas a stronger place to live, work, and invest.

Arkansas leaders have once again delivered for taxpayers. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and legislative Republicans have continued their strong record of