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Showing posts with label taxpayer. Show all posts
Sheldon H. Danziger: The Mismeasure Of Poverty
We are officially losers in the war on poverty. THE Census Bureau reported yesterday that the poverty rate in America
held stable between 2011 and 2012, at about 15 percent. According to the
official measure, poverty today is higher than it was in 1973, when it reached a historical low of 11.1 percent. To many, this dismaying fact ... MORE A Majority Of Americans Oppose The Internet Sales Tax
Our "representatives" continue to pursue it anyway. Public support is waning for the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute. The poll,
which was released last week, found that 57 percent of all likely
voters oppose legislation like the Marketplace ... MOREDaren Bakst: Government Control Of Your Diet
Threats to the "freedom to eat." Many politicians and self-appointed nutrition czars see Americans as incapable of making decisions about a basic necessity of life: eating. Therefore, they feel that government at all levels must try to control their diets. This control means trying to direct people to eat a certain way or expressly ... MOREGovernment Spending Is Ruining Families
by Janice Shaw Crouse. The economic picture in the United States gets worse with each passing day of the Obama administration, and families are especially hard-hit. While the damage is already devastating, the ramifications will continue wreaking havoc on today's children when they are adults starting their own families. Comedians refer ... MORESteve Chapman: Drug Warriors In Retreat
Their drug-induced haze couldn't last forever. When it comes to Eric Holder, Republicans are divided between the radicals and the moderates. One group regards him as a lawless black power zealot intent on subverting the Constitution and stripping us of our liberties. Then there are the radicals... So when Holder gave a speech ... MORE
Katrina Trinko: Standing Up To The Unions
Even Dems are opposing outrageous union demands. Even in California, the buck stops occasionally. The final outcome is not yet clear, but even a four-day strike against BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the rail system that serves San Francisco and the surrounding area) in July and the threat of a longer one haven’t won transit-union workers ... MORE
Tax Bracket Chart: California's War On The Working Class
9.3% state income tax on $47,000 of earnings. Technically, you don't have just one "tax bracket" - you pay all of the California marginal tax rates from the lowest tax bracket to the tax bracket in which you earned your last dollar. For comparison purposes, however, your California tax bracket is the tax bracket in which your last ... MOREJohn Hudson: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban
Government-made news to be spread to Americans. For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: ... MOREIRS Pays Over 200 Employees To Work Full-Time For Union
by Eliana Johnson. The Internal Revenue Service pays over 200 full-time employees not to
conduct audits or process tax returns but to work for a
federal employees’ union, according to documents
released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act
request by the advocacy group Americans for Limited Government.
Forty-three ... MORENo More Tax Dollars For Presidential Libraries
by Gene Healy. Last week, at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, President Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put partisanship aside and descended on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas to say nice things about our 43rd president, (They're all in the same racket, after all.) ... MORE
Rich Tucker: Electric Cars And Crony Federalism
Competition is good— but only when it encourages a “race to the top.” That’s true in business and among the states as well. Competition can encourage policy innovation. For example, Pennsylvania carefully (but reasonably) regulates hydraulic fracturing, and it is reaping the benefits as companies create jobs by safely extracting oil and natural gas. ... MOREMike Riggs: Three Drug War Programs Your Taxes Pay For
Torture, murder and terror. When's the last time you heard someone argue that we need to raise taxes to fund torture? Or to pay for violent paramilitary raids on peaceful U.S. citizens? Or to incentivize extrajudicial killings carried out by our own government, yes, but also by a neighboring country? Probably never. As every good citizen knows, taxes are ... MOREJohn Stossel - Government Plays Favorites
People say government must "help the little guy, promote equality, level the playing field." People often go into government to do that. But even when people mean well, it's natural for them to help out their cronies. David Stockman, who ran the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, was criticized for saying the ... MORE
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