Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Rand Paul’s Tax Plan: A Different Perspective
Daniel Mitchell, a libertarian economist and Senior Fellow at the CATO Institute, offered an overall positive review of Rand Paul's tax plan that was released today. He had three minor quibbles and one major concern with the proposal. It his his evaluation of Paul's...
Rand Paul: Blow Up The Tax Code
Rand Paul blew up the pages of the Wall Street Journal this evening with his Op-Ed he released a few hours ago on his plan to reform the tax code. The formal announcement comes tomorrow, but his tax plan is what he calls "The Fair and Flat Tax". The basic tenets call...
The Decline of American Business Start-ups
The number of new businesses has been on the decline since 2008, with more businesses closing than opening. The US Census Bureau confirmed the statistics, which was reported on by Gallup earlier this year. This startling trend also reaffirms a study released last year...
Social Security Musings
I recently read a letter to the editor about Social Security in the Wall Street Journal that irritated me. Not the letter writer per se, but more by the Wall Street Journal choosing to print a letter that perpetuates a widely perceived myth about Social Security. The...
An Education Loan Bailout — And The Backstory
On Monday, the Department of Education announced student loan debt forgiveness for students at the now-closed Corinthian College system in California. At the end of April, the Department of Education slapped the for-profit college group with $30 million in fines for...
Presidential Race 2016: Taxpolitix Scorecard
The upcoming Presidential Election Cycle is beginning to get crowded already. Since I'm undecided right now, I've chosen to do a scorecard of sorts of each of the major candidates in four policy areas: *Taxes *Immigration *Free Trade *Entitlement Reform These issues...