In a 2009 commencement address President Obama jokingly threatened to audit Arizona State University for not giving him an honorary degree on the grounds that his record was incomplete (he had been President for just two months). Now it appears there may have been more than a kernel of truth in the joke: Virginia Republican U.S. [...]
Tags: Politics of Taxes
The Weekly Standard via Instapundit: Tim Geithner says that because Americans are privileged to be Americans the rich should pay hire taxes: That’s the kind of balance you need. Why is that the case? Because if you don’t try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don’t ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to [...]
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Heritage: Nearly Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Income Taxes Heritage Foundation: Chart of the Week — Nearly Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Income Taxes: (Hat Tip: Paul Caron) Bookmark & Share:
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Taxing Medical Progress to Death by Michelle Malkin: Two years ago this month, as public debate over Obamacare raged, former President Bill Clinton rushed to the hospital because of a heart condition. He immediately underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his coronary arteries. It was a timely reminder about the dangers [...]
Tags: healthcare reform · Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
Paul Caron reports that the United States tax system is more progressive than France, Germany, Belgium and the UK. No doubt my friends on the left, tax bloggers Linda Beale and James Maule, and those of their ilk, will find a way to recast the study and the charts below as evidence of a right wing [...]
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In a post titled Five Breaks Washington Gives the Rich CNNMoney reports that when non-rich people die they simply stop breathing but when rich people die its a boon to them. Here is the third and most entertaining of the five tax breaks CNNMoney claims the rich get from Congress: Big benefits for those who die When President Bush took [...]
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The New York Times continues the tax gotcha game. In this version, one Paul Sullivan¹, a man whose sole qualification for writing about taxes and business is that he has history degrees from Trinity College and The University of Chicago, attempts to attach the label of tax-avoider to Newt Gingrich (emphasis is mine): Our colleague Paul Sullivan has written an interesting [...]
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