An Enforcement Regime is Needed On February 19, 2013, the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G20) issued a communique which addressed global currency misalignments.  In it, they pledged to: “move more rapidly toward more market-determined exchange rate systems and exchange rate flexibility to reflect underlying fundamentals, and avoid persistent exchange rate…

News Release Contact:  Sara Haimowitz, 202.688.5145, [email protected] CPA and Legislators Host Trade Summit The Coalition for a Prosperous America hosted a one-day trade and economic summit, “Manufacturing in the Golden State: Making California Thrive,” in conjunction with state Senator Mark Wyland and Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins on February 14, 2013.  More than 150 participants explored changes…

CPA is fighting to maintain ExIm Bank rules that favor products made in the United States, in a meeting with ExIm Bank staff last week in Washington. The U.S. Export-Import Bank (ExIm Bank) provides financing for some foreign purchases of U.S. goods. Other countries have a version of ExIm Bank. For example, of South Africa…

Here is the slideshow presentation I gave to a group in San Diego yesterday.  The event was called “Manufacturing in the Golden State.”  It describes the math about how a consumption tax could reduce the domestic tax burden, include imports in our tax base, narrow the trade deficit, increase U.S. production, and fund reductions in…

By Greg Autry, CPA Economist I was working on an updated  map of nations that use a Value Added Tax (VAT) for the Coalition for a Prosperous America and thought I’d share it. Nations in RED have a VAT. Nations in BLUE don’t. Basically, the VAT is a national sales tax on products sold, at various levels…