Taxing The King
Anyone that is remotely a sports fan, or has even glanced at ESPN for more than 15 seconds over the past few days, is well aware that the basketball world is holding[…]
Tagged: income taxes
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Regulation
IRS Rewards Tax Dodgers Who Work for IRS
Unbelievable: More than 2,800 Internal Revenue Service workers who had been disciplined recently received millions of dollars in bonuses and time off as part of an employee recognition program, a new government audit shows.
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Obama Changes The Subject Away From Obamacare, Whiffs On Income Inequality
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
There Are Far Better Alternatives than Taxing Drivers by the Mile
Raise fuel taxes. End diversions of highway funds. Charge a road fee for owners of hybrid and electric cars. Leverage existing federal programs to involve private companies to address highway needs. These all would be better solutions than the hidden and privacy-violating VMT.
Amendment 66 Proposal Would Hurt Colorado Small Businesses
A new tax proposal on the ballot in Colorado designed to increase P-12 education funding could have wide ranging effects on both individual taxpayers and businesses in that state. The[…]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Taxes
Overreaching Internet Sales Tax Is Obama’s Calculated Deception Of Gullible Voters
The Internet has flourished as a generally tax free zone and an enormous boon to our entire economy. We should keep it that way.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Obama and the Pirates
Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion. You probably heard again the other night in[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout
Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium size states such as Tennessee and Washington, and smaller states, in terms of population,[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Politics
Further Words in Defense of Fair Taxation: A Reply to Mike
“Mike,” who declined to give his last name, responded to my recent blog post, “Of Toilet Bowls and Fiscal Cliffs: A Simple Solution,” in which I proposed as a political[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
A Good Day for a Fiscal Cliff Hanging — and Defending Grover Norquist
[First published at The American Spectator.] It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover Norquist because they can’t wait to abandon the tax pledge not to raise[…]
Happy Tax Freedom Day!
Today is “Tax Freedom Day,” the day on which American’s stop working to fund government and start working to fund their own needs and wants. This is according to the[…]
Heartland Institute Comments on Huge Tax Hikes in Illinois
I moved to Illinois from California this summer, and just joked with someone over on Facebook that I’m as good at picking states as Larry King is at picking wives.[…]
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