Taxation
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CEA Deserves an F on Bitcoin Mining Tax Analysis
“The CEA’s argument would result in a failure on an introductory microeconomics exam. One expects better from a team of professional economists.” ~ Joshua R. Hendrickson
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What To Do About Deficits, Debt
“When it comes to fiscal follies, this time is different. Let’s not pass the buck. Instead, let’s make the necessary sacrifices to ensure the long-run integrity of the United States. Let’s plant the trees.” ~ Alexander William Salter
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How Will We Pay for a $1.9 Trillion Spending Bill?
“Politicians are quick to ignore the costs of government spending in proposing legislation and obscure those costs by issuing debt rather than raising revenues. It is politically popular to issue debt and send checks to everyone. The benefits of the policy are clear: people get checks. The costs, which ripple out through financial markets as…
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Whose Money Is It?
Tax debates might have better outcomes if we began by acknowledging that the politicians take the money from the people who earn it. It’s not the politicians’ money. It’s ours.
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TARP’s Tax Meter Still Running Years After End of Crisis
Taxes are being collected to help end the financial crisis that ended nearly a decade ago.
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Repeal the Corporate Income Tax
An especially controversial feature of President Trump’s proposed tax reform is a cut in the corporate income tax. The current tax is progressive, with rates ranging from 15 to 35 percent on income minus deductions. The Trump tax would have a single rate of 15 percent and would eliminate some deductions.
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Trump’s Plan Reduces the Tax Burden but Increases the Debt Load
Americans spend $400 billion dollars per year to comply with the tax code. Americans also dedicate 9 billion hours of labor to comply with the current tax code. Beyond costly compliance, the current tax code distorts investment and work decisions in the economy. Something needs to be done to simplify the tax code and make…
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An Age of Illusionists
Remember, all spending is a tax. It has to come from somewhere. It’s coming out of the value of your Dollar.
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New CPI Means Higher Taxes, Lower Benefits
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but a steak tastes not as sweet – if it’s a cut of horse meat… The new CPI calculations are designed to […]
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“Two Years of Epic Stimulus Failures” – Steve Stanek
“We’ve just passed the second anniversary of “economic stimulus” under President Barack Obama. Aside from spending on the stimulus itself—the actual price tag soon climbed from $787 billion to $862 […]
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“Our fiscal paradox: Governments too costly to function” – WP
“Many governors face more than a spending crisis. They preside over failed systems that have discouraged fiscal restraint and sometimes preferred the interests of state employees to the interests of […]
