Category: Taxes & Taxation

Bold tax reform is front and center this campaign season.  First Herman Cain made waves and poll headway with his 9-9-9 tax plan, which involves national 9-percent taxes on personal and corporate income and a 9-percent national sales tax.  Now …

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is still receiving a lot of scrutiny. That scrutiny comes from people who either do not understand how to do simple math, who have nothing better to offer or who just want to maintain the …

Lots of foolish people rail against the idea of a national retail sales tax. You know, like the FairTax.

But why? We already have a national sales tax. It is called the corporate income tax. The reason …

Herman Cain as a presidential candidate is a great speaker. But his Nein, Nein, Nein plan will not create one real job. So when it comes to voting you also might think about voting nein (no) as well.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s successful effort to open the rest stops on I–95 was a very good idea. His current effort to open tollbooths on I–95 is not.

McDonnell obviously faces a dilemma: Virginia desperately needs road improvements and faces a …

Hope and change were the magic words that swept a relatively unknown, inexperienced Barack Obama into the Oval Office. He campaigned as the one able to fix the Bush economy. Once in office he has protested that he didn’t know …

Once again, the government class (and its most docile followers) has appropriated the language to cushion the blow of its self-perpetuation. ‘The rich?’ That’s so 2008. Besides, that canard has lost all but its minimal PR punch. …

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Ok, good. Now …

Jeff Carter wrote this article where he claims we need these 5 things to happen to fix our country.

Basically he wants a flat tax, capital gains and business taxes reduced to zero.

I am one of the fortunate 90 percent of American workers still working. I am a chump. I could be sitting on my collective; collecting 99 weeks of unemployment. But I do not. I pay the taxes that keep the …

It is quite funny that this notion of raising the taxes on the rich is not getting any traction. But Obama keeps trying. Some think that if he can create some class warfare that he will get enough votes to …

In 2010, there was a “tax gap”—i.e., the difference between federal taxes owed and those actually paid—of $410–$500 billion.

The White House, with its 37 million-dollar payroll is asking for more taxes from the wealthy to pay for those who pay no taxes yet benefit from programs of wealth redistribution. Our foreign-born-but-elected-usurper-in-chief calls this “shared sacrifice”. I don’t see …

As Americans prepared to mark the birth of their country with the usual outpouring of celebratory events, pundits on the political right were scratching their heads over President Obama’s most recent comment about America’s free-enterprise system.

You have to hand it to the Republicans. They are not thinking with the right side of their brain. There are 2 words that Americans do not, never, absolutely do not want to hear from their crooked politicians and they …