Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Are Obamacare Pressures Unconstitutional?
As each day passes, the various facets of Obamacare are getting implemented in order to be fully operational by 2014. And we are beginning to hear about difficulties in the implementation caused primarily by either 1) people or companies trying to avoid the...
Obama’s Business Policies Push Jobs Overseas
There is an erroneous sentiment perpetuated by the media that our government gives corporate tax breaks for moving jobs overseas, implying that our tax laws favor countries like China and India over the United States. This is simply untrue. Expenses that companies and...
Governor Cuomo and his “Double Taxation” Disaster
Governor Cuomo is on the list of presidential potentials for 2016. His positions on state and federal taxes need to be elucidated in case he becomes a major candidate in the next couple of years. For instance, Governor Cuomo lashed out against the recent federal...
With IRS Scandal, Should We Delay Implementation of Obamacare?
Back in 2009, Obama gave a speech at Arizona State University and joked about using the IRS to audit unsavory people. In a jolting forecast nearly four years ago, Glenn Reynolds wrote a response in the WSJ, saying, “Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of...
The Barack H Obama Foundation Received Tax Exempt Status in Just One Month in 2011. By Lois Lerner
A fresh Op-Ed this morning by IRS head Steven Miller reveals the lengths to which the IRS and the White House are going to spin the on-going scandal. “The agency was simply trying to manage the explosive growth in applications for 501(c)(4) status that started pouring...
IRS Scandal Timeline (Pieced Together From Media Reports)
With all the reports coming in fast and furiously from different news agencies, here’s a pieced-together timeline of events. The information below is a timeline of events taken from numerous media outlets with their links provided. Early 2010: WSJ: The report...