Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Tagged: IRS
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics · Regulation
The Unceasing Political Thuggery of Obama’s Gangster Government
The Obama administration has done its part fulfill the promise to “punish our enemies.” It is the only promise this president has kept, and is a grave danger to our liberty.
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Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Legal Affairs
Bean Bag Justice?
Tax evasion is of course illegal, but tax avoidance is not.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
New Obamacare ‘Fee’ Assails Small Business and Jobs
In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.
Swirling the Bowl: An Administration Goes Down the Drain
The last remaining glimmer of Obama’s political capital and personal appeal, and thus his ability to help vulnerable Democrats in the 2014 elections and beyond, is flowing into the septic tank of Progressive history.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Obama’s Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked The Deck Against American Workers
So-called Progressives like to talk in code words, because they know if they told the American people what they were really thinking, they would never get elected.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: 10 Principles of Federal Tax Policy
Dan Pilla, author of the Heartland-published Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy, discusses the current tax system in the United States and how it does not follow any of the ten principles laid out in his book. Pilla is a taxpayer’s rights advocate and has defended countless tax payers against the IRS. He helps individuals and businesses who struggle with our tax problems, which are plentiful.
Featured · Speaker Series · Taxes
Thorner: Author says Federal Income Tax Unfair; Ignores Sound Economic Policies
Standing by itself, Pilla’s Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy is one in a series of eight other brief guides in Heartland’s Legislative Principles Series, each having its own set of principles central to its topic of debate.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Speaker Series · Taxes
Heartland Speaker Series: Dan Pilla and the 10 Principles of Federal Tax Policy
The Heartland Institute’s author series hosted Dan Pilla, author of the Heartland-published Ten Principles of Federal Tax Policy on November 14. Pilla is a taxpayer’s rights advocate and has defended countless tax[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Obamacare Reality Sinks In
The Manhattan Institute analyzed premiums in many states, including Texas, showing that young men are going to pay almost double for their health insurance under Obamacare, and women will pay 55 percent to 62 percent more.
Turning Smokers Into Criminals
The same hucksters and frauds that tell you that 0.039% by volume of the carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere poses a huge threat to all life and those claiming that the presence of arsenic in tobacco smoke is a health threat are dependent on public ignorance.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
NSA, Net Neutrality, It’s All About Controlling the Internet – and You
Net Neutrality mandates that the government regulate the entire Web. Which means the government lords over every single website on the planet. No First Amendment problem there, right?
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
The Economy? It Must be the GOP’s Fault, Right?
President Obama is going to hit his perpetual campaign trail to tell Americans that the economy is turning around and that his policies of the first four years have worked. They have not.
Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Random · Regulation
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
The Department of Homeland Security sets up shop in a mental hospital. Meanwhile, the IRS wants out of Obamacare.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
Congressman Kelly: Next Phase of IRS Scandal is Abuse of Our Data
“The information that the IRS has on file on people goes pretty deep into personal lives. It is being leaked out and given to people for very specific political reasons. I think this is something that should be the most chilling thing for Americans to understand.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Is it Time to Abolish Federal Government’s Power of Direct Taxation?
In this recent excerpt from The Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today, James Taranto and a reader give serious consideration to what has long been unthinkable in polite[...]
Obama’s Climate Obsession
Yes, the United States of America is being run by a man who believes that transferring $25 from every man, woman, and child in America to third world countries in the name of “climate assistance” is progress — and is just the beginning.
Economics · Featured · Health Care
Welcome to Health Care Hell
What Obamacare has given us instead is, in the Tribune’s words, a “complex system that relies on computers to share data with the Internal Revenue Service, state tax offices, Medicaid, Medicare and other agencies in order to verify customer information.” To paraphrase Jay Leno, what could possibly go wrong?
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Curbing the IRS
For starters, take away its power over 501(c)(4) applications.
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