Coats Statement on Indiana’s April Employment Numbers
Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) issued a statement regarding Indiana’s April employment numbers, which were reported Fridayy by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
JEC Republicans Release Report Detailing Developments Reshaping the Labor Market
Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Vice Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) released a Joint Economic Committee majority report detailing developments that are reshaping the labor market.
Coats Statement on April Jobs Report
Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) issued a statement regarding Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that the U.S. economy added 160,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in April.
Coats Says Anemic 0.5% Growth is Unacceptable
Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about Thursday’s announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that the U.S. economy grew by only 0.5% in the first quarter of 2016.
Sens. Thune, Coats Demand Better Than the Obama Economy
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and U.S. Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.), chairman of the United States Joint Economic Committee, issued a joint statement in response to new numbers revealing yet another quarter of sluggish growth for the American economy.
Coats Opening Statement: JEC Hearing -- Is Our Complex Code Too Taxing on the Economy?
Joint Economic Committee Chairman Dan Coats (R-Ind.) delivered an opening statement during a hearing on tax code complexity entitled “Is Our Complex Code Too Taxing on the Economy?”
Happy Tax Day!
Tax Fact of the Day: Dr. Art Laffer estimates that income per person in America would increase if the tax code were less complex.
Countdown to Tax Day -- Day 1
Tax Fact of the Day: Federal tax law, including the tax code, regulations, and important cases, grew to over 74,000 pages in 2014.
Countdown to Tax Day -- Day 2
Tax Fact of the Day: The tax code is so complex that 90% of taxpayers use a paid preparer or buy software to figure out their tax burden.
Countdown to Tax Day -- Day 3
Tax Fact of the Day: Estimates of what it costs taxpayers in a single year to comply with the tax code range from $233.8 billion to $431.1 billion to as high as $987 billion.