Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Pandering: Regulating Oil Profits?
It's another egregious example of the Democrats wanting to overreach boundaries in an effort to appeal to voters: The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil...
Where Is the Outrage on the Left?
The White House recently named Jack Lew his new Chief of Staff after the departure of Bill Daley. While Obama championed Mr. Lew's work in the State Department as the chief budget officer and deputy secretary of state, he omitted the fact that prior to the State...
Why the Republicans Must Win the White House
The “unconstitutional power grab”, which rightly describes Obama's (non) recess appointments on Wednesday is another alarming move in a string of examples as to why we need to make sure we do not re-elect him the the presidency Quite frankly, as a lifetime CPA, I...
Social Security — A Tax or Retirement Plan? (But Not Both)
One of the most common means by which politicians deceive their constitutents is by referring to Social Security as a either a tax or as a retirement system -- but usually only as the politics or issues of the day suit them. We have politicians who stand strongly...
Forbes: Harry Reid, the Mythmaker
Forbes had a wonderfully scathing expose on Senator Harry Reid's millionaire tax myths. Senator Reid declared on December 6th, Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They’re impossible to find, and they don’t exist… Only a tiny fraction of people making more than...
Payroll Extension Havoc
While Congress debated the merits of the two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday, no one mentioned the devasting economic impact this legislation will have on our small and large businesses, nor the tens of millions of dollars wasted by the Senate to come up...