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• Economic Policy FAIL

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 146
  I recognize that some contentions in the world are controversial, but some contentions should be accepted without much resistance, if any. For example, one hopes that it isn’t too much to argue that an American-imposed international tax on financial transactions –courtesy of the Democratic party–will simply ...
  4 hours ago

• Congress’s Accelerating Dereliction of Duty

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  How seriously Congress has ever taken its responsibility to serve as a “check and balance” against the powers of the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government is debatable, but it has certainly run pell-mell from those clearly delineated responsibilities in the past several decades: abdicating its ...
  9 hours ago

• Might the Bush tax cuts be repealed before 2011?

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 509
  I have to admit, this scenario does make a lot of sense: In a word, yes. Back in August 1993, President Clinton passed the largest tax increase in history – the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA) – and made it retroactive to January of that year. It was challenged in court, and the court held ...
  13 hours ago

• Harry Reid Proposes More Confiscation via Taxation

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  “At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.”– Joseph Sobran -Tax News.com tells of yet another tax-the-rich proposal from Democrat leaders: United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is ...
  1 day ago

• The Economist Magazine on Why We Have to Be Biased Toward Tax Increases in the Short Term

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The cover story in this week’s Economist magazine discusses “dealing with America’s fiscal hole.” The “hole” is described not as something we’ll have to dig ourselves out of in the far-off future , but something we’re already too far in now .  (The story quotes Bill Gale and Alan ...
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• Go Ahead And Scream At Me

  
  National, WA State & Clark County Politics - Democracy for Vancouver — Authority: 120
  This graphic to the right doesn’t make one proud to be a Washingtonian.  And a big part of the reason is Washington, like Florida, has no state income tax.  So the sales taxes, the property taxes and all the other “taxes” just keep climbing on the poor while the rich get richer. Oregon needs a sales tax and ...
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• Pharmaceutical Companies Will Suffer Under Health Care “Reform”

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 146
  Behold the proof : In an attempt to illustrate the real world consequences of reform’s taxes, Senate Republicans are pointing out a provision that would tax the makers of swine flu vaccines and drugs. The provision raises $2.3 billion annually from drug makers who sell their products through government programs. ...
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• At Least 100 Reasons to Worry That Congress Won’t Follow Through on the Hard Choices in Health Care Reform

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  Hooray! Tonight we’re one step closer to getting a deficit-neutral health care reform bill that has at least some hope of “bending the health cost curve” in the future. Oh wait, maybe not… As David Broder worries about in his Sunday column in the Washington Post (emphasis added): I have been writing ...
  2 days ago

• Why it’s Bad to Soak the Rich

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  I found a wonderful article on confiscatory taxation over at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute website.Today the main instrument of confiscatory interventionism is taxation. It does not matter whether the objective of estate and income taxation is the allegedly social motive of equalizing wealth and income or whether ...
  2 days ago

• State Opposition to Federal Healthcare Reform

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  I’ve wondered why state governors and legislators haven’t been more vocal opponents of the healthcare reforms being drawn up in Washington.  All these proposals would put huge financial burdens on the states. I haven’t seen much in the news until this article appeared, reporting that two Florida state ...
  3 days ago

• 6 healthcare taxes that violate Obama’s tax pledge

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 509
  These seem pretty indisputable. From Keith Hennessey : 1. The clearest violation is the 5% excise tax on cosmetic surgery and similar procedures (including teeth whitening). I assume that cosmetic surgery and similar procedures are skewed toward the high end of the income distribution, but there certainly are many ...
  3 days ago

• CBPP Report Brings Clarity to Recovery Act Debate

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 136
  A new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities makes five key points about the Recovery Act that should be repeated over and over, as opponents of federal aid to victims of the Great Recession dig trenches in preparation for combating future relief. 1: Recent increases in unemployment do not mean the ...
  3 days ago

• Another proposal to raise the tax on food

  
  One Utah — Authority: 536
  Representative Craig Frank has a blog post with a big headline:Repeal of 1% Restaurant Tax Receives Unanimous ApprovalRepealing a tax should be popular right about now. Especially since Senator Howard Stephenson and others are proposing to raise the sales tax on food.Unfortunately, repealing this tax isn’t as ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Healthcare Bill is also a Big Tax Increase Bill

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  By way of Paul Caron here are 17 tax increases included in the Senate healthcare bill:40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500/$23,000 ($149.1 billion)Employer W-2 reporting of value of health (negligible revenue effect)Conform definition of medical expenses ($5.0 billion)Increase penalty for ...
  4 days ago

• You Think America’s Fiscal Gap Is Bad?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  On e21, Donald Marron writes about a recent IMF analysis that compares the budget deficits of 22 advanced countries.  Donald explains how the U.S.’s budget outlook might look quite grim, but we’re still not as badly off as Japan, the U.K., Ireland, and Spain.  In order to get the debt to a more sustainable ...
  4 days ago

• Memo to Bankrupt Cities: Try Competition

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  As cities across the country face growing deficits, instead of their current strategy of raising taxes and cutting services, they might like to take a look at a few case study examples of how those before them solved their challenges. As an example, ten years ago we hosted the then-mayors of Indianapolis, Stephen ...
  4 days ago

• After the Hearing: Notes on Stimulus Oversight

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 136
  As I mentioned in my post yesterday , the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held its first stimulus oversight hearing in months today, this one focused on reviewing the first round of recipient reporting under the Recovery Act. The hearing featured testimony from Earl Devaney, Chairman of the ...
  4 days ago

• Agribusiness, Food, Vegetarianism-----and Taxes

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 441
  As some of you may know, I am one of the many people who eat a vegetarian diet.  I dont eat cows, pigs, fish, whales, sharks, chicken, turkey, sheep, wild game, tame game... As I sometimes say when people ask me about my diet, I eat everything you eat, except for a very short list of items--the critters that can move ...
  4 days ago

• The Cosmetic Surgery Tax: Is the Senate Healthcare Bill Sexist?

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  William Jacobson has dug into the tome-like Senate Healthcare bill and found a provision that will impose a 5% tax on all cosmetic surgery:Harry Reid and his Democratic band of friends want to impose a 5% excise tax on all elective cosmetic surgeries (those which are not needed to repair deformaties or injuries ...
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• Tax Credit Not a Big Incentive for New Homebuyers

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  HSH’s Tim Manni has another interesting blog post about the effectiveness of the new homebuyer credit:According to [a survey by the National Association of Realtors (NAR)], only 6% of home buyers said that the homebuyer tax credit was the main reason behind their decision to purchase a home.Tim quotes Luke Mullins ...
  5 days ago

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