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60% of Americans Want Across-the-Board Spending Cuts

November 14th, 2011 · No Comments

Don Surber of DailyMail reports that 60% of Americans want to see accross the board spending cuts: One good thing about overspending by $4 trillion since Barack Obama become president: It eliminated all the sacred cows. An overwhelming majority not seen in 39 years wants every federal government program to have its budget cut. Every [...]

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Tags: Politics · Polls · The Economy

71% of Americans Think Private Sector is More Competent than Government

August 17th, 2011 · No Comments

The left loves to trot out polls that suggest that most Americans want the rich pay more taxes. Their hopes are, of course, that people will conflate these results and conclude that most Americans favor big government over the private sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. Emily Ekins of Cato @ Liberty has published [...]

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Tags: News · Opinion · Politics of Taxes · Polls

Poll: What to do About the Deficit Crisis

July 2nd, 2011 · No Comments

What is the Solution to the Deficit Crisis? Raise taxes on the rich Make across-the-board spending cuts Make spending cuts to entitlement programs only Raises taxes on the rich and cut spending Punt   Bookmark & Share:

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Tags: Opinion · Polls

IRS Bracketology and Tax Madness

March 14th, 2011 · 9 Comments

Syracuse tax professor Robert Nassau has published in PDF a cool NCAA-like bracket of IRS concepts. Check it out.   I must take mild exception, however, to his claim that this is the first ever bracket of tax sections.   Here’s a blog post I published in 2009:   TAX MADNESS All Time Greatest Code [...]

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Public Opinion Polls and the Tax Debate

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

I often disagree with Derek Thompson of The Atlantic, but when he writes in 66% of Americans Want Higher Taxes on Rich, But there’s a Catch about the dangers of relying on public opinion polls he is right on target: Two-thirds of Americans support keeping the Bush tax cuts only for families earning less than $250,000 [...]

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Tags: Politics · Polls · The Economy

Your Favorite Tax Blogs: The Results are In

December 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Everyone got votes and, to be sure, each of the ten tax blogs nominated offers something unique and different from the others. There’s a place for everyone. So, without further ado, here are your 4 favorite tax blogs: 4. Linda Beale of ataxingmatter – 4% 3. Kay Bell of Don’t Mess With Taxes and Kelly Phillips Erb the Tax [...]

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Tags: Announcements · Polls

Online Poll: Your Favorite Tax Blog

December 9th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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Tags: Polls · Tax Blogging