Category: Taxes & Taxation

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 …

The article caught my attention: “Church Ordered to Stop Giving Away Free Water”, dated 27 February 2012. (Byline Todd Starnes).

Okay, it’s Mardi Gras in Louisiana and there are a whole lot of people in town. A church gets a really …

Our federal tax code is broken. Fifty-one percent of Americans don’t pay any federal income tax. I’ll repeat that. 51 out of every 100 Americans do not have any federal income tax liability. 49% pay all …

Along with their ever-present accusation that anyone who criticizes or disagrees with America’s first black president is a racist, class envy is the centerpiece of Obama’s re-election campaign.

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective …

They are at it again, when the liberals passed the payroll tax cut a few years ago it was a joke. It was suppose to amount to about $15 dollars per paycheck. I guarantee you that it will create a …

There is an old saying which applies to courtrooms and debates. It warns one to never ask a question to which they do not already know the answer to. Political hacks, in addition to bad lawyers and poor …

We all know that trying the same thing over and over expecting different results is a popular definition of insanity. And we also know that putting the paste back in the tube is a popular illustration of an impossible …

While listening to yet another socialist rant from our President about how “millionaires and billionaires” – people like him — should be taxed higher (so as to pay “their fair share”), I began to smell something nasty, albeit familiar, from …

After visiting the website of Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, the group demanding higher taxes on wealthy Americans like themselves, one may lament the defiant, don’t-tread-on-me spirit that once defined our national character. It is not merely that these …

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 …