Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
It’s Not Kosher: The IRS and Z Street
The recent Z Street Case against the IRS before the D.C. Court of Appeals is a notable example of egregious behavior by IRS employees. Z Street is a group that was created in order to educate “the public about Zionism; about the facts relating to the Middle East and...
Baltimore is a Microcosm for Failed Democrat, Anti-business Policies
Recently, a business owner in the heart of Baltimore penned a piece describing some of the excessive and burdensome government policies business owner face. His piece gave an eye-opening view of the reality that is decades of fiscal and governmental mismanagement in...
Obama’s Taxes and Regulation Are Keeping Us Stagnant
I've written several times over the years about Obama's economic policies and anti-business climate as factors that have hampered this country's growth and recovery. Phil Gramm has a good piece in the WSJ recently that gave a succinct overview of all that is still...
The Government Raisin Ring
Possibly one of the biggest property-rights case since Kelo has recently been argued before the Supreme Court. The property in question this time is not land, but raisins. A couple, the Hornes, who were raisin farmers in California were fined for declining to...
Quickly Noted: The IRS Scandal, 2 Years Later
From the Hill: Exactly two years after the IRS first admitted improperly scrutinizing Tea Party groups, congressional investigations into the tax agency show no sign of drawing to a close anytime soon. Congressional Republicans say they are deeply irritated that they...
Chris Christie’s Hail Mary
Chris Christie recently unveiled a plan to overhaul Social Security. This is his Hail Mary to get back in the game of running for President. Though I applaud his decision to make entitlement reform a major portion of his platform, his proposal is merely another veiled...