Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
There’s a lot of handwringing among some grassroots Republicans over Republicans in Congress starting to cave to Obama administration demands regarding tax increases to avoid the fiscal cliff. Have they[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Taxes
[First published in Investors Business Daily.] There he goes again, Warren Buffett bleating about the supposed need for government to more heavily tax high-income earners while he owns life insurance[...]
Economics · FIRE · Politics · Regulation
A close look at the most recent statement from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke after the formal announcement of QE3 a few weeks ago, plus articles and blogs in reaction[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
[First published in the Orange County Register.] A few days after the big election, and the smoke is clearing. We’re beginning to see the most consequential vote of Nov. 6[...]
[First published at Crain's Chicago.] This is no way to solve budget problems caused by years of reckless spending. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle proposes a $25 tax on[...]
I’ve been reading a lot of analysis these past few days by people trying to figure out how Mitt Romney could have lost to Barack Obama. Much of the analysis[...]
Internet/Telecom · Regulation · Taxes
Tax Foundation Vice President Joseph Henchman always does a great job reporting from the tax front, and today was no exception. Here’s his synopsis of last week’s U.S. Senate hearing[...]
Could it be that President Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney have failed to notice the Soviet Union no longer exists? Here’s why I ask: [Romney] wants to sharply[...]
I’ve been reading and hearing lots of comments from people saying the ObamaCare ruling will fire up conservatives and libertarians to rally round Romney in the upcoming election and make[...]
Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty
During a gathering last week at Heartland’s offices in Chicago, I was sitting with a supporter of the organization. He asked what I thought would happen with Obamacare. I said it would[...]
Economics · FIRE · Regulation · Taxes
All across the nation, cities and states compete with each other partly on the basis of taxes. Should a senator — Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York, for instance —[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Politics · Taxes
Not that we expect the clowns and criminals who run state government in neighboring Illinois to care, but we do hope, for a moment at least, they cast their collective[...]
Can we agree that a man with a gun who pursues someone is not standing his ground? That he is in fact doing the opposite of standing his ground by[...]
As a lifelong Illinois resident, I long ago came to believe that my state government is more than corrupt, incompetent, inept, wasteful, abusive, etc. It is evil. Last Thursday I[...]
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