We’re hearing rumors that Secretary Geithner has agreed to provide a cost benefit on the proposed nonresident alien interest reporting regulation before it is finalized. But as I reported the other day, he has also stated their intention to go forward with…
Andrew F. Quinlan
Andrew F. Quinlan was a co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and served as its president for over 20 years.
Before CF&P, Andrew was Senior Economic Analyst for the Republican National Committee, and then served as a top staff member for New Jersey Congressman Jim Saxton, including as senior advisor to the Joint Economic Committee.
Andrew passed away in 2022.
Assurances on Destructive IRS Regulation Fall Short
Secretary Geithner offered little more than ‘you can trust us’ to assuage concerns.
Global Taxes Pose Constant Risk to Fiscal Sovereignty
The OECD, although a frequent villain, is not the only threat to fiscal sovereignty. Organizations such as the UN have long sought to tax carbon, financial transactions, and even emigration. But the latest in a long list of attempts to institute international taxes…
The Worst Dollar-for-Dollar Spending in DC
Examples of government waste are not hard to find in Washington DC, but identifying the worst, most egregious instances of destructive spending is more difficult. Based on the facts cited by a new CF&P Libertas published earlier this week, a strong case can be…
FATCA Hurting Us Now
Peter Dunn, warning of the many issues with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, has written a great article at American Thinker called “FATCA: A Ticking Time Bomb for the Economy.” Lawmakers clearly need to reconsider the law and its accompanying…
CF&P Warnings on OECD Confirmed by New Study
Dr. Andrew P. Morriss of the University of Alabama and Lotta Moberg of George Mason University have produced a new paper titled, ““Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful Tax Competition’,” which thoroughly documents the…
CF&P Objections to IRS Regulation Take Center Stage at Congressional Hearing
Fighting the revival of a decades-old proposal that would drive much needed foreign capital out of the US, CF&P has aggressively laid out the case against the regulation to require reporting of non-resident alien deposit interest information to the IRS, an action…
Eduardo Morgan Exposes OECD Cartel for High Tax Nations
My friend Dr. Eduardo Morgan Jr. sees first hand in Panama how the OECD works. While hypocritically chastising smaller jurisdictions and ignoring the same behavior from larger members, the bureaucrats in Paris also keep moving the goal posts, always pushing for…
Economics 101 Video Tackles Poverty
The latest video from our Economics 101 Series tackles poverty, an issue frequently used to pull heart-strings in support of big government policies. But as the video shows, big government redistribution schemes are not making the problem better, and are likely making…
Super Committee Must Focus on Spending
The so-called Super Committee has been tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the next ten years. Though with the President’s recent call for another half-trillion in stimulus that he claims would be payed for, they would need to find $2…