Category: Taxes & Taxation

Our federal tax code is broken.

Forty-seven percent of Americans don’t pay any federal income tax. Think about it. Nearly one-half of Americans don’t have any federal income tax liability. 53% pay all personal income taxes.

Adding …

Since Mitt Romney announced his tax plan, the media have demanded that he provide more detail. In particular, they want to know exactly which deductions he wants to eliminate while cutting the rates. That’s a perfectly reasonable question, but why …

A group of senators under the guise of bipartisanship met for a 3 day retreat. I didn’t know we were at war. What do we need to retreat from. And guess whose paying for the retreat? So this is …

Tim Kaine — known here as Gov. Flowmax after closing Virginia’s interstate rest stops — occasionally comes down on the right side of an issue. During the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce debate between Senate candidates Kaine and former Sen. George …

People who work hard, manage their finances, and pay their bills on time are forced to pay for free cell phones and airtime for those who don’t. In the government’s Lifeline program.

When you are in the business of government you always want more taxes.

The Democrats are always talking about paying your “fair share”. Paying your fair share to whom? What exactly are you paying for? Why is our media in …

Under the 2009 Stimulus Act, the Federal Housing Administration insured $20 billion in mortgages for 87,000 homeowners.

Among these recipients were 6,300 borrowers who received almost $1.5 billion in mortgages. However, these borrowers owed the government millions in taxes. Nearly $78 …

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare’s individual mandate on Thursday — and in fact dubbed it a tax in spite of the Obama administration’s denials — no one was more jubilant this past weekend than the …

When North Dakotans went to the polls on Tuesday, they had a chance to strike a blow for freedom and make their state the first in the nation to ban all property taxes. Unfortunately, though, the referendum was defeated …

Ronald Reagan once said that it was fairly easy to sum up government’s view of how to handle the economy. “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it,” Reagan said.

When taxes become destructive they’ve surpassed the consent of the governed bending to the will of tyranny. When regulations strangle competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they’ve become counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they …

An ever growing government must by necessity grow in expanding its revenue (called taxing to the uninformed) and therefore can be very creative in methods for taxing and names for said taxes. Since the phrase “cut spending” is not found …

While the U. S. Senate lacked the votes to pass the “Buffet Rule,” it turns out that Obama, like Warren Buffet, probably paid a lower percentage on his federal income taxes than his secretary.

Facts are stubborn things. So too apparently are the minds of certain individuals. These individuals usually, but not always, tend to lean to the left. This is so because in order to be an individual who believes in the power …

While the Obama Administration curtailed its involvement with local police agencies to enforce immigration law and capture criminal aliens, that same administration wishes local cops to help the Internal Revenue Service enforcement tax laws, according to testimony given before a …