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Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.”
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The Alabama legislature kicked off its new term with a special session to increase the gas tax, a result which seemed foreordained. Nonetheless, the gas tax raises interesting economic and political considerations.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), announced by the House Ways and Means Committee on November 2nd, has generated a lot of commentary on both sides of the political divide.
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On this I am totally with the Libertarians – taxation is theft. But I am a Realist. In the panoply of evils – taxation is a necessary one. It is absolutely not necessary in the omni-directional ways and at the confiscatory levels at which it currently exists.
