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Our existing political systems evolved at a time of much more gradual social, economic and technological change and to restrain excessive government they were designed to be cumbersome.

The Daily Caller is running an endearing story about a 56-year old Philadelphia woman who is on disability and who has been endorsed by the city’s Republican Party in their upcoming primary for mayor.

Income taxes were just due, and I hope that filing this year wasn’t too painful. 

On the heels of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Minnesota’s Governor Mark Dayton is proposing to fund at least part of his $46 billion, two-year budget proposal with about $320 million of state tax increases.

The media once more has been agog with the terror and fear of the government shutdown that occurred following the failure of the Congress to pass another stop-gap spending bill.

About to end is the August recess Congress so richly earned with their great first-half-of-the-year work repealing Obamacare and other long-promised, Republican-control-of-Washington-contingent agenda items.

Unions turn towards the religion of Scientology to help defeat the IRS and scam their members.

The stakes could not be higher, for President Trump, the Republicans, and America.

With the highest top marginal tax rate in the developed world, if not the entire world, at nearly 40%, counting state corporate taxes on average, this U.S. taxation is very burdensome.

Leftism is such an easy soundbite sell. It’s a gaggle of five-second one-liners that seem to make perfect sense – right up until someone applies actual thought to any of them.

Remember the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal?

The late Supreme Court Chief Justice (amongst many other impressive gigs) John Marshall rightly noted “The power to tax – is the power to destroy.” The power to OverTax, of course – will destroy even more.

President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have both put forward tax reform plans that contain lots and lots of really great ideas.