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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...
More Lois Lerner Deceit: An Alias Email Address

The Washington Times has the story on this new information being admitted to by the IRS -- Lois Lerner used another separate personal email account with an alias, "Toby Miles", to conduct professional business. This now makes three email accounts used by Lerner, the...

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Flashback: Wall Street Schemes

As the Stock Market is swirling around today, I am reminded of an incident that began this day in 1982 and spanned several years; it involved illegal trading schemes, inside tips, and money. History.com has a good synopsis: "Martin Siegel meets Ivan Boesky at the...

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EPA Knew About Potential Pollution Problem

In a Friday night document dump, internal EPA documents showed that in both 2014 and 2015, the EPA described how existing conditions at the mine set created the possibility of a blowout of contaminated waters. So EPA managers was certainly aware that the river could...

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The EPA Atrocity

Those responsible for the toxic EPA spill into the Animus River should be prosecuted to the fullest extent for their actions. Just as the EPA has gone after individuals and private companies for violating various EPA statutes, the EPA workers who released 3 million...

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Still a Deficit, Despite Another Month of Record Revenue

Each month, CNSNews does a nice roundup of the monthly Treasury statements which show revenue and expenditures for the prior month. As has been the case for the last few months, the month of July has been another record setting month for revenues. Even with that, the...

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