The New York Post reports that taxpayers are leaving the state in record numbers to avoid high taxes: More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in [...]
Tags: State Taxes · Tax Policy
1. The Exorcist - This movie had me at the soundtrack. I saw it when I was 15 years old and it was still in it’s first run. I will never forget sitting between my friends, Steve Maddox and Gerry Rosen, both of whom had already seen the movie and were there just to watch me go pale. Of course, being a [...]
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Here is the story of Halloween from History.Com: Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the [...]
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Economist and tax preparer Mary O’Keeffe of the very good Bed Buffaloes In Your Tax Code blog says that the American tax system is not as progressive in practice as it is in theory: Essentially, the rich can hire high-priced expert ranch-hands to manage all those bed buffaloes in the tax code to figure out legal ways [...]
Tags: Tax Policy
The Democrats healthcare bill is now up to 1,900 pages. Do you think anybody is going to take the time to read and understand this monstrosity? I don’t. For kicks, I thought it would be interesting to compare it’s length with the approximate lengths of some of the most world-changing documents ever written: The King James Bible - 1888 [...]
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Joe Kristan tells us what he thinks of Congress’ planned extension of the new homebuyer tax credit. He no likey and here’s why: It’s nice to know that a majority of the millionaires in the Senate think it’s wise to spend $40,000 to $80,000 of our money for each new home sale caused by the credit, even though the [...]
Tags: Individual Taxation · Tax Policy
David Boaz of the Cato institute has discovered yet another brilliant use of the taxpayers’ money in Your Tax Dollars at Work: The National Park Service announced Friday that it has removed its superintendent at Gettysburg National Military Park and reassigned him to work in a cultural resources office as an assistant to the associate director. His job duties have [...]
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