Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Spending Cuts Better than Tax Hikes
A quick little snippet coming from the AP -- a new poll shows that more Americans would rather cut spending than raise taxes 56 percent to 31 percent, more embraced cuts in government services than higher taxes as the best medicine for the budget, according to the...
Dividend Disaster
Welfare for Drivers?
This is straight out of Ron Klain's opinion piece on Bloomberg entitled "How to Defuse Political Peril of Surging Gas Prices": One idea might be a “pocketbook protection” plan, which would work as follows: If the average price of gas exceeds $4 a gallon, an...
Keystone and the Market
Gas prices are the highest they've ever been so early in the year. There are plenty of reasons for the high prices, and lots of reasons to expect a big price surge in the spring, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for Oil Price Information Service. "Early February...
ARRA: Three Years Later
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus bill was signed exactly by President Barack Obama on February 17th, 2009. We were told how this would help Americans go back to work while creating more jobs. Yep. So much for Keynesian Economics. Daniel...
Occupy University
Well, isn't this cozy. The Occupy movement, which began in September, has occupied several universities this spring. USA Today highlights a course being taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago (surprise?) called "Occupy Everywhere". Similar classes on the history...