Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Biden and the COVID Emergency
How can Biden get away with saying the pandemic is over, at the very same time his attorney wrote the legal opinion that debt forgiveness was constitutional because of the COVID State of Emergency? He is trying to play both sides. On 60 Minutes this past Sunday,...
The Economic Tragedy of COVID Relief
What is happening, as demonstrated by the Census, is that the government largess is taking some people out of poverty, but it is having an even greater and more dangerously perverse effect. It's making people overall worse economically and preventing them from moving...
WSJ: Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem
Phill Gramm and John Early do a nice job laying out the misnomer that income inequality is the problem. This concept of inequality really became a selling point during the Obama administration when the Democrats consistently implored that "millionaires and...
The Average Joe and the IRS
The Internal Revenue Service is inept to such a degree that it could rightly be called criminal. The problems go beyond the numerous cited issues, such as only answering 10% of taxpayer calls or a backlog of 21 million unprocessed tax returns. The Treasury Inspector...
WSJ: Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response
When the CDC admitted failure this week for its COVID response, one might have felt a bit vindicated regarding the lockdowns and disruptions -- but only for a moment. Because it turns out that the CDC actually means is that they didn't go far enough in their response...
WSJ: This is Your IRS at Work
You have the Editorial Board at the WSJ taking the IRS to task. The following article outlines numerous problems listed in multiple agency audits, and yet Congress is still eager to give the IRS an extra $80 billion. I've reprinted it below. The new Inflation...