Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom
RE: The Internet Sales Tax Rush
After a long series of insightful articles about how low taxes promote economic growth, Art Laffer gets the internet tax wrong.
Author: Jim Johnston
Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Resentencing Skilling: Reading Between The Lines
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
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Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Interracial Marriage, Gay Marriage, Love, and the Law
Since I am one-eighth Cherokee and my spouse is the daughter of immigrants from Italy, our marriage was interracial and presumably illegal in Virginia. We often entertained renting a hotel[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Taxes
Louisiana Tax Policy and the Price of Government Services
Regarding Peter Ferrara’s recent post: I often talk about taxes being the price for government services. The idea was introduced to the profession in 1896 by Knut Wicksell. He added[...]
R.I.P. James M. Buchanan (1919-2013)
James McGill Buchanan Jr. died Wednesday, January 9, 2013 in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1986 he won the Nobel Prize in economics mainly for establishing the public choice school of economics.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Politics · Taxes
After The Fiscal Cliff or Grand Bargain
A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the fiscal cliff and a grand bargain. If the past is any indicator, under either event taxes will go up[...]
Odd Even Gasoline Rationing
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has just announced the gasoline rationing system imposed in the wake of the Sandy Hurricane is being shut down. Meanwhile New York Governor Andrew Cuomo[...]
Election Day Musings
At the onset I should mention in the interest of full disclosure, that the vote in my household is split right down the middle. There is one vote for Governor[...]
Global Warmers are Big Oil Patsies
The favorite target of global warming alarmists is the group of big international oil companies. Big Oil is accused of generously funding the global warming skeptics, like The Heartland Institute.[...]
Hate High Gas Prices? Blame the Taxman
Drew Johnson’s piece in the Wall Street Journal did us motorists a great favor by showing that the government take from the price of gasoline is seven times the profit[...]
Ron Paul Versus the Stupid Party
The caucuses in Iowa and the primary in New Hampshire have made Rep. Ron Paul a credible alternative to Mitt Romney going into the primaries in South Carolina and Florida.[...]
Bill Niskanen, RIP
The economics profession has lost one of the giants. His best known work is a positive, as opposed to a normative, theory of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy and Representative Government was published in 1971.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Taxes
A Brief History of America’s Quite Progressive Income Tax
The income tax in the U.S. is the most progressive among the developed countries. Who made it so? John Goodman and Michael Stroup tell you at Townhall. An excerpt: Barack[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Broaden the Tax Base and Lower the Tax Rate — Supposedly Prosperity Will Follow
Broadening the tax base and lowering the rate, the current whiz-bang solution to both the government debt problem and the recession, has the support of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) from[...]
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Somewhat Readable Links- iPencil | National Review Online
- Eagle Scout Faces Felony for Honest Mistake
- James Bovard: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting - WSJ.com
- The IRS Scandal: the Future of Big Government Is Now « Commentary Magazine
- Lessons from the IRS scandal | Power Line
- On the AP-Justice Department Story - Ricochet.com
- Emptyage — Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
