Showing posts with label income tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income tax. Show all posts

Gary Jason: Young Frogs Hop To New Ponds

A recent story concerning the French youth is fascinating.   It reports that a poll conducted by the leftist newspaper Le Monde shows that the French are not happy with their socialist government.  Seventy percent now believe that taxes are too high, and 80% hold that President Hollande's economic policies are on the wrong track.  And 54%   ... MORE

Daniel J Mitchell: More Americans Are Going Galt

Why folks are deciding to renounce American citizenship. President Obama promised he would unite the world…and he’s right. Representatives from dozens of nations have bitterly complained about an awful piece of legislation, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), that was enacted back in 2010. They despise this    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Americans Deserve The IRS

Politicians must pay for their spending.  Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it. Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s, federal spending as a percentage of  ... MORE

Cal Thomas: Tyranny Is No Longer 'Lurking'

It has become a fact of life. Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer lurking. It's here.    ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Abolish The IRS

(and the income tax with it)    The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt status. In this case it was against organizations with “tea-party” or “patriot ” in their names and other right-wing groups. Next time it could be libertarian or left-wing antiwar and pro-civil-liberties  ... MORE

Daniel J. Flynn: Manny Pacquiao Vs The IRS

Enough to make taxpayers cry, "no mas."  Manny Pacquiao takes on his toughest opponent in his next fight: the Internal Revenue Service. Roy Jones, Evander Holyfield, and Floyd Mayweather all fought the most powerful three-letters in boxing and lost. Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino who doesn’t possess their home field disadvantage, has already     ... MORE

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Andrew Napolitano: Taxation Is Theft

Government deploys the mafia model.       With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers' taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself, and with a government that continues to extract more wealth from every taxpaying American every year,  ... MORE

Grover Norquist: One Hundred Years Of Tax Servitude

Happy birthday: The income tax is now 100 years old. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified by three-fourths of the then-48 states. Stop me if you have heard this one, but the federal income tax was pushed by progressives who felt the rich should pay their fair share. They promised that only really rich people would have  ... MORE

Tax Freedom Day 2013 Is Five Days Later Than Last Year

The day you begin earning money for yourself.     April 18 will be Tax Freedom Day, the day when Americans have worked enough to pay all of their federal and state taxes for 2013 – a round total of $4.22 trillion, according to an analysis done by the Tax Foundation. That's five days later than in 2012. Americans will pay more than $2.76 trillion in    ... MORE

Chris Rossini: Rolling Back To That Dreaded Year: 1913

The beginning of the end.  In respect to liberty, 1913 was a dark year in U.S. history. Three key pieces of legislation were passed that (now 100 years later) have individual liberty seriously on the rocks. They were: The 16th Amendment, which created the Federal Income Tax, The 17th Amendment, which created the Popular Election of Senators,   ... MORE