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Tax Politics

The Politics of Taxes

Reciprocal Tariff Ignorance

President Trump continues to pursue his misguided tariff crusade believing that he is somehow protecting American industries and employment. His latest move, reciprocal tariffs (which he intends to begin April 2), is even worse. Trump has stated that he plans to impose tariffs based on “what they charge us, we charge them,” which is an economically stupid idea. Advocates of this policy like to...
IRS Supposedly Had Contract With Email Back-Up Service

Even though the IRS claims it lost all of Lerner's emails due to a hard drive crash, as least some of those appear at some point to have been archived (the ones from 2009): As reported, "House congressional investigators have requested emails from 2009 to 2011, when...

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Harry Reid Claims There Are No Democrat Billionaires

Yesterday the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, painted a picture of class warfare, claiming his side does not have any billionaires. "The decisions by the Supreme Court have left the American people with the status quo in which one side's billionaires are pitted...

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IRS Hard Drives Gone

Now we've gone from yes, we have emails ---> no we don't have emails because of a computer crash ----> the hard drive may have been recycled. Politico reports: "Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the...

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How The Media Was Complicit in the VA Scandal

We now know that the state of affairs within the VA system was abhorrent for years — and that Obama, like his predecessor, knew there were problems. And yet, several well known left-leaning columnists spoke highly about the VA health system anyway, especially ramping...

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