Nate Scherer is a Senior Education and Outreach Associate with the Tax Foundation where he assists with materials and outreach for the organization’s educational platform, TaxEDU.
He was previously the Director of Finance Policy at the American Consumer Institute where he oversaw issues concerning banking, finance, and insurance. In a prior role, Nate served as an educator for Fairfax County Public Schools and as Policy Analyst at the Reason Foundation. He holds a Master of Arts in Teaching in Secondary Education, Social Studies from Concordia University, Portland and Bachelor of Arts in Politics from George Fox University.
In his free time, he enjoys all things music, hiking and running, and exploring the DMV. He currently resides in Arlington, VA.
Short FormThe recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is certainly big, but is it “beautiful”? Many provisions in the OBBBA will have noticeable impacts on individual taxpayers, including some that are beneficial to your wallet.
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Short FormThe US national debt is on an unprecedented and unsustainable trajectory that will require ever-greater borrowing and larger interest payments on what is borrowed. These interest payments will, in turn, consume a larger part of the budget, and all Americans will pay the price.
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Short FormSince the inception of the modern federal individual income tax in 1913, the US tax code has generally become more progressive, not less. Will the recent tax changes made by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) alter this?
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Short FormIndependence Day is notable for its insistence not just on light taxation, but more importantly on taxation being subject to the consent of the governed through a representative form of government.
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