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A must read for every Conservative/Libertarian
Tweet This PostThe linked article is, IMO, an important read for all of us in the think tank/free market movement. I’ve often started feeble attempts to write a nearly exact commentary, and...
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What Do Hungry Children in Oregon Have to do with Tax Policy?
Tweet This PostThe recent edition of “Parade” magazine when I saw a list of things that you can do to help others in need. I was struck by their plea to “Feed Hungry Children in Oregon” where they...
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America 3.0 [bumped]
Tweet This PostJames C. Bennett, author of The Anglosphere Challenge (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), and Michael J. Lotus (who blogs at Chicagoboyz.net as “Lexington Green”), are proud to announce...
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What Norway Can Teach Illinois About Toll Roads
Tweet This PostWhen I was in Norway at the tiny (and picturesque) town of Mundal, I noted what appeared to be an abandoned highway toll booth near the edge of town. Since the meticulous Norwegians...
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NYT Has A Decent Article on Taxes
Tweet This PostBoth our current administration and the New York Times appeared to have little or no understanding how the “real” economy worked or the impact of incentives on tax policy. In more...
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Penalizing Charter-School Teachers
Tweet This PostThe IRS has a proposed new regulation which would prohibit charter-school teachers from participating in state retirement plans. (At present, all of the states which authorize charter...
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Not yet TEA time…
Tweet This PostYes, the world is abuzz with the fuss that Irish homeowners are making over the Household Tax. To recap, the Household Tax is a precursor to a property tax, which hasn’t been charged...
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Chicago Tax Day Tea Party, April 16, 2012, Daley Plaza, Noon
Tweet This Post FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2012 Contact: Eric Kohn Communications Director, Chicago Tea Party eric@chicagoteaparty.org 773-209-3435 TAX DAY TEA PARTY PLANNED FOR CHICAGO CHICAGO –...
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Paying Higher Taxes Can Be Very Profitable
Tweet This Post(I originally posted this in early 2010–today seems like an appropriate day for a re-post) Chevy Chase, MD, is an affluent suburb of Washington DC. Median household income is over...
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Ryan & Subsidiarity
Tweet This PostLast week, in my Sunday School class, the substitute teacher argued that those who linked “liberation theology” with communism were wealthy landowners hoping to tar legitimate...
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Economic Policy Advice From 1377 AD
Tweet This PostIbn Khaldun, the great Muslim historian, in his Introduction to History: Taxation and the reason for low and high tax revenues It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty,...
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The Romney tax cut.
Tweet This PostToday, the Sunday morning TV shows on politics demonstrated the response of the Obama campaign to Romney’s debate win last week. Paul Krugman, who looks more and more like a political...
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Joe Biden and the debate
Tweet This Post A clownish Joe Biden mugged, groaned and interrupted Paul Ryan for 90 minutes last night. It was an odd spectacle but, apparently, just what the Democrats wanted. He lied about the...
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Take Home Candy – A Halloween Tax Parable
Tweet This PostThis was supposed to go up yesterday but apparently I forgot to hit the “publish” button. *Sigh*
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The Beer Index
Tweet This PostPity the UK government. Like most, they have had a great deal of trouble closing the gap between money spent and tax revenue. And, like most, they have scrambled to raise taxes in order...
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After Math – Going Mini-Galt
Tweet This PostBlondie and I went to bed Tuesday night around 9:30, already fearing that things were not going well as regards Mitt Romney’s chances of taking up residence in that big official...
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Why Paris Hilton Makes a Poor Poster Child for the Death Tax
Tweet This PostFrom Instapundit: “The idea behind the estate tax is to prevent the very wealthy among us from accumulating vast fortunes that they can pass along to the next generation,” said Patrick...
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Warren Buffett The Hypocrite
Tweet This PostTaxes are very complex in that there are many different types of taxes designed to raise revenue and modify behavior that the government wants to incentivize or dis-incentivize. At the...
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The Sequester
Tweet This PostAs we count down to March 1, we are hearing more and more about the dreaded sequester. The left is confused about its history. How did this become Obama’s fault? It started with Mitt...
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Taxed Enough Already
Tweet This Post Very closely are noble issues bound up with material ones. Nothing could be more grossly material than the refusal to pay taxes, and the honest historian who comes to examine these...
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