It’s Tax Day in America. Which brings to mind one of the late, great Ronald Reagan’s many great lines: “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15.”
Tuesday is April 15 – Tax Day. The official day that represents governments’ year-round, omni-directional shearing of We the People. Looking to get filing help from our federal fleecers is at best a crapshoot.
States that burden their residents the most are facing budget problems that high tax revenue has yet to fix. Conversely, states with a low burden simultaneously experience well run state governments and budgets.
Ezra Klein recently released a 2-minute clip explaining the need for individual mandates under Obamacare. Man, does that guy talk fast!
Mr. Klein gets most of his explanation about right, with one big exception. He says that a family making $80,000 a year will (eventually) be penalized $2,000 for failing to buy coverage — “less money than health insurance will usually cost you, but you don’t get anything for that money,” he says. Uh, that’s understating things quite a bit. A family insurance policy costs $16,351 according to the most recent employer benefits survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
In a hard fought election campaign, voters in the city of Tigard appear to have narrowly enacted another barrier to light rail expansion in suburban Portland. The Washington County Elections Division reported that with 100 percent of precincts counted, Charter Amendment 34-210 had obtained 51 percent of the vote, compared to 49 percent opposed.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Regulation · Tobacco
Why is Gov. Chris Christie trying to punish people who have quit smoking?
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Seventy-eight years ago, on February 4, 1936, the British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) published what soon became his most famous work, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.”[...]
Craig and Ponte point to 1913 as the year progressive, collectivist ideas “took control of the United States government and began a ‘fundamental transformation’ of our economy, politics, culture and beliefs that continues today.”
President Obama’s State of the Union address on the night of January 28, 2014 was all about “micro-management.” It was micro-management at one level since he realizes that a divided Congress will not pass any “grand” legislation that he might try to submit.
Something good should come of this farm law heinousness. To set the stage for far less farm bill heinousness five years hence.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Politics
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.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Although at first glance Nebraska’s tax system may appear competitive nationally, it lags behind its regional neighbors, who are its primary competitors for attracting new businesses to the state.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
Inequality is his middle name.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Government · Legal Affairs
Judge Kenny’s decision means that the state of California cannot ignore its laws, even when its leadership finds them politically inexpedient.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Podcast
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.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Podcast · Taxes
End the sales tax? Are you crazy? No says Mike Stenhouse, CEO of the Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity. In fact, Rhode Island might be the first state ever to end a sales tax.
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