How does their plan stack up against these criteria for good tax reform?
read more...A coalition letter calls for tax reform, Panama defends against unjust tax haven charges, and the ongoing FATCA devastation.
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read more...Improving health care through drug competition, a UN encroachment on sovereignty, and the latest nonsense to come out of the OECD.
read more...There are many different tax reform proposals that exhibit the principles of a good tax system.
read more...Is reform more likely now that Republicans have the Senate?
read more...Some folks on the right in Washington, generally known as reformicons (short for reform conservatives), want the Republican Party to de-emphasize marginal tax rate reductions and instead focus on providing tax relief to parents. There are many leaders in this movement and, if you want to learn more about the tax proposals being discussed, I […]
read more...I like to think that very few people despise Obamacare more than me. I don’t like Obamacare because it’s a fiscal boondoggle. I don’t like Obamacare because it’s bad healthcare policy. I don’t like Obamacare because it generated an embarrassingly bad decision by the Supreme Court. I don’t like Obamacare because it is driving people out of the labor forceand into government […]
read more...I’m a long-time proponent of the flat tax for three simple reasons. 1. It replaces the discriminatory “progressive” tax with a single tax rate at the lowest possible level, thus reducing the tax penalty on productive behavior. 2. It gets rid of all forms of double taxation, such as the death tax and capital gains tax, meaning economic activity is never taxed more […]
read more...Some statements are so lame that they now serve only as punch lines. Nobody, after all, would ever claim to a teacher that “the dog ate my homework.” Moreover, surely few if any people ever actually assert to bill collectors that “the check is in the mail.” And I have to imagine that no guy […]
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