by Nathan Nascimento. It’s that wonderful time of year again: tax season. Some 150 million
American businesses and individuals are expected to file taxes by this
month, covering thousands of arcane provisions that determine how much
you and your family will pay Uncle Sam and state governments this year. But this filing season is the second ... MORE
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How Obamacare Just Made Filing Your Taxes Worse
by Nathan Nascimento. It’s that wonderful time of year again: tax season. Some 150 million
American businesses and individuals are expected to file taxes by this
month, covering thousands of arcane provisions that determine how much
you and your family will pay Uncle Sam and state governments this year. But this filing season is the second ... MOREPanama Papers About Gov't Corruption, Not 'Tax Evasion'
by Ed Krayewski. The "Panama Papers" are the largest leak in world history, revealing millions of documents related to the offshore accounts of politicians, former politicians, and billionaires around the world. Despite much of the media's focus on tax evasion as the primary theme of the Panama Papers story, which embarrassed governments are ... MOREThe Real Tragedy Is That The Presidency Matters
by Jeffrey Tucker. Freedom lovers everywhere are biting their nails this election season, wondering how the damage can be limited. Depending on who gains control, we could have trade wars, nationalized health care, the pillaging of Wall Street, more war in the Middle East, a VAT tax, direct surveillance of your smartphone, internment ... MOREMichelle Malkin: Obamacare’s Tax-Time Torment
The bumbling Obamacare bureaucracy. Thousands of taxpayers must do without a form needed to claim a tax credit for their overpriced health-insurance premiums. Where is my 1095-A? This is what it must be like dealing with a government agency in a third world country.” That was the lament on Twitter of just one poor citizen this week trying ... MORECalifornia’s Carl’s Jr. Says So Long, Golden State
They know when they are not wanted. States: To hear Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, you’d think that taxes can go up to 60% or even 80%, and businesses and investors will just … pay up. But the growing number of businesses stampeding out of high tax areas suggest that they’re very wrong. We got more evidence of that this week when CKE ... MOREJohn Stossel: Libertarian Lite
Lighten up, truth can be scary. In this year's Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too ... MOREWalter E Williams: What Is The Fair Share Of Taxes?
Politicians exploiting the ignorant. Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as the rich, to pay their fair share of income taxes. None of these people, as well as the uninformed in the media and our campus intellectual elites, will say precisely ... MOREDozens Of Studies Libertarians Should Know About
The proof for economic freedom. Over the years I have been running ‘Being Classically Liberal,’ I have done a bit of research and come across a number of empirical research papers which I find very interesting and relevant to many current socioeconomic debates. I figured I’d share them here, so that other people can use them as resources. ... MOREVictor Davis Hansen: The Medicine Has Stopped Working
In search of fixes for a fossilized economy. The U.S. economy grew at an anemic rate of less than 1 percent in the last quarter of 2015. While the unemployment rate has dipped below 5 percent, the all-important labor force participation rate is at a historic low of just 62.7 percent. More than 90 million able-bodied adults are either not ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Is Mexico's Soda Tax Really Working?
Less consumption, same obesity. Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, the country implemented a one-peso-per-liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in January 2014. That tax, supporters claim, is working. A 2015 working paper by University of Chicago Prof. ... MORE
Coral Davenport: To Help Pimp Alternative Energy Sources, Obama Is Willing To Impose A $10-A-Barrel Fee On Oil
A tax on production, what could go wrong. President Obama’s budget request to Congress will include a new fee on oil companies, requiring them to pay $10 to the federal government for every barrel of oil they produce, the White House said on Thursday. The money, which could bring in up to $32 billion in new federal revenue annually, would ... MOREThe Decline Of America's Economic Freedom Under Obama
by Anthony B. Kim. Millions of people around the world are emerging from poverty thanks to rising economic freedom. But by sharp contrast, America’s economic freedom has been on a declining path over the past decade. According to the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom,
an annual publication by The Heritage Foundation, America’s economic ... MORETexas Police Turning Into Mobile Debt Collectors
by John Cassidy. Reduced to tax collectors with badges. Two new technologies and one failed state program could make highway travel perilous for Texans traveling between San Antonio, Austin and Houston. Law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over I-10 east of San
Antonio and I-35 between San Antonio and Austin have signed contracts ... MOREWhat Some Think As Law-Abiding Is Really Jackass Abiding
by Paul Hein. If you were to ask people on the street, “Are you law-abiding?” the vast majority would say, some with evident pride and self-righteousness, “You bet I am!” A smaller percentage would say, after some hesitation, “Sure, I guess I am,” and a very few might grimace and say, “Only when I have to be!” Thank God for this last group! ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Busybody Left
Self-appointed minders of YOUR business. The political left has been trying to run other people's lives for centuries. So we should not be surprised to see the Obama administration now trying to force neighborhoods across America to have the mix of people the government wants them to have. There are not enough poor people living in ... MORE
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