I have never in my life seen liberals this passionate about property rights.
Imagine the following scenarios then tell me what you think the left’s reaction would be:
A fundamentalist Christian organization opens up a community center next door to an abortion clinic
The southern Baptists erect a church and recreation center across the street from a Gay [...]
Paul Krugman, the intellectual leader of the government-expansion crowd, says that those who believe that government bureaucracies are bloated, wasteful and inefficient are destroying America’s infrastructure.
How did we get to this point? It’s the logical consequence of three decades of antigovernment rhetoric, rhetoric that has convinced many voters that a dollar collected in taxes is always a dollar wasted, [...]
Tags: Opinion · Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
Julian Assange is a modern day Tokyo Rose¹ and an enemy of the United States.
John Hinderaker of Power Line has a great post on the Wikileaks scandal (emphasis is mine):
Today Wikileaks founder Julian Assange offered an… interpretation of America’s Constitution: if you support freedom of speech, then you have to endorse Wikileaks’ illegal leaking of classified documents [...]
Well how about that? I finally have a reason to support higher taxes.
Kay Bell has provided it in her blog post High Taxes Discourage Childbirth:
Now there’s a contraception method I bet you never considered.
But Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson says that if taxes are raised to help keep the federal deficit from increasing, then policymakers need [...]
Tags: Opinion · Tax Policy
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
- Vladmir Lenin -
Professor Richard Lavoie of Akron University laments that patriotism is more aligned with the anti-tax, small government movement than it is with high-taxes and big government:
The existing research suggests that patriotism may be a weaker tax compliance [...]
Tags: Opinion · Politics of Taxes
Paul Caron says that David Cay Johnston (pictured) has published U.S. Tax Rates: A Bargain Hunter’s Dream?, 128 Tax Notes 333 (July 19, 2010):
In this article, Johnston examines new data showing that taxes are the biggest bargain in America, something no one would know from the tenor of the debate in Washington and on talk shows.
I read the [...]
Tags: Opinion · Tax Policy
My mom doesn’t get around that well anymore. She was in the supermarket yesterday and asked a twenty-something employee to help her get a one pound bag of flour from a high shelf.
Here was the high school graduate’s response:
Ma’am, there are no one pound bags up there, only 16 ounces.
I hate to pick on this kid because he was very [...]
Gary G. of Grasslands, the entreprenuerial blog, tells of a new form of business entity called the B corporation:
Traditionally, business owners have had the same few choices when it comes to incorporating. Either go unincorporated (as a sole proprietor or partnership), or form an LLC, S or C corporation. The differences between these various entities [...]
Tags: Corporate Tax · Opinion · Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
It would be a wonderful world if everyone were blind? That is what Deborah Rhode (pictured) seems to be saying in her book The Beauty Bias.
You see, in Ms. Rhode’s paradise it would be a crime for Jessica Alba to reject a sexual proposition from Danny DeVito and for the proprietor of a beauty supply business to fire a grossly overweight saleswoman.
Now, while it is likely [...]
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No wonder American teachers oppose, with a fervor matched only by a soccer hooligan, a merit pay system that would set their wages based on the performance of their students.¹ Chris Lehmann of Yahoo News writes that most Americans can’t name a single sitting Supreme Court justice:
As Congress gears up to do battle over Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme [...]
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