The Republicans are no longer the party of tax cuts. I never thought I would hear myself say that, but it’s true. At least for the short term. Yesterday, House Republicans abandoned their principles and agreed to a whopping two month extension of the payroll tax cuts that were signed into law two years ago. Of [...]
Tags: Payroll Taxes · Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
From AdamSmith.Org Fat Taxes Won’t Prevent People From Getting Fat, Fatheads: Research released last week suggested that people in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland should follow an ‘English’ diet to reduce levels of obesity. Fair enough, but unfortunately they also recommended imposing this diet by taxing fatty foods. ‘Sin’ taxes do not merely fail in [...]
Tags: Tax Policy
If President Obama and the tax-happy left get their way, this is what is coming in America. Lisa Abend of TIME reports that Denmark has just enacted a tax on fatty foods: The tax, the first of its kind in the world, imposes a 16 krone (roughly $3) hike per kilo of saturated fat on [...]
Tags: Legislative Watch · Tax Policy
Allen Sanderson wrote a column for Chicago Life Magazine titled Taxes and Touchdowns, Leveling the Playing Field in College Athletics: If [the sin taxes} now on the table are acceptable, let me suggest a fifth item: college football games. Yes, I am advocating that we impose steep taxes on all intercollegiate football advertising, television broadcasts, logo merchandise [...]
Tags: Tax Policy
In prior posts (see related posts below) we have criticized the many efforts by both federal and state legislators to impose sin taxes on the consumption of sweet drinks and other items deemed to be bad for you. We said that we believed that the purpose behind these tax proposals were not to curb bad [...]
Tags: Tax Policy
Kurt E. Kruckeberg, Editor in Chief of the Seattle University Law Review, was kind enough to send me a gratis copy of the fall volume of the school’s Law Review. The volume is comprised of a lengthy diatribe by law student, philosopher and political scientist Jonathan Cummings titled Obesity and Unhealthy Consumption: The Public-Policy Case for Placing a Federal Sin [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics · Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
Here’s little tax rap video I found on YouTube. Very clever: Bookmark & Share:
