Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Did A Failed Medical Scheduling Project Contribute to the Development of Secret Waiting Lists at the VA?
Did a failed medical scheduling project at the VA contribute to the development of “secret waiting lists”? At least one attempt to implement a scheduling system at the VA never got off the ground after nearly a decade of trying. Apparently a medical scheduling project...
The Tea Party and Immigration
I joined the Tea Party in my locality when it began because I sincerely believed in its simple, but extremely powerful and direct message: Low Taxes Limited, Constitutional Government Individual liberty and nothing else. The Tea Party was not to be a political “Party”...
IRS Purported to Have Lost Two Years of Lerner Emails
From Committee on Ways and Means Chairman, Dave Camp: "Due to a supposed computer crash, the agency only has Lerner emails to and from other IRS employees during this time frame. The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside...
Quickly Noted: IRS Sent Taxpayer Info to the FBI
From National Review Online: "The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of...
New Executive Action on Student Loans
Obama issued an Executive Order today that brought extra relief to some student loan borrowers. A 2010 law allowed for repayment caps at 10% of a borrower's income, though some loan holders were ineligible. This Executive Order expanded those who could qualify for the...
Unemployment Stays Flat, Both Short and Long Term
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 217,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services,...