Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
The IRS and the Practice of Asset Forfeiture
The practice of asset forfeiture by the IRS has been highlighted in recent months due to a high-profile case involving a woman who had roughly $33,000 of her money seized by the IRS. The IRS claimed her “pattern” of depositing the money she earned from her restaurant...
Thinking Ahead For the Twilight Years
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That expression is also applicable to persons in their 80s -- they go in like a lion and out like a lamb. As they start going along in those years, their ability to discern and filter out the problematic...
Public Sector Wage Increases Should Reflect the Private Sector
The rapid rise of public sector jobs is a cause for alarm. While the private sector still struggles with an anemic economy, the government has expanded its employment steadily throughout the economic downturn. A majority of private sector workers rightly believe that...
Rubio Right, Rand Paul Wrong
Rubio is right and Rand Paul is wrong on the recent Obama deal with Cuba. As someone who spent more than 14 weeks over the last decade in Cuba, I can personally refute the following falsities that are being circulated by supporters of Obama’s rapproachment with...
Tax Credits, Tax Returns, and Obamacare
If you are an Obamacare recipient, you may find you owe money at tax time for Obamacare subsidies that you received if you had income or life changes in the year that you didn't report to the Marketplace. Most people who purchased Obamacare plans found they were...
The Tea Party is Losing Its Way
I joined the Tea Party in my locality a few years ago when it began because I sincerely believed in its simple, but extremely powerful and direct message: Low Taxes Limited, Constitutional Government Individual liberty and nothing else. The Tea Party was not to be a...