by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 9, 2010 | Big Government, Taxation
The New York City NBC affiliate reported this week that twenty six professional tax preparers were wanted or arrested on tax fraud charges as the result of a recent crackdown. Some of the preparers allegedly used the names of dead people to collect fraudulent...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 2, 2010 | Europe, Free Market, Tax Competition
Nicholas Sarkozy spoke at Columbia University in New York on Monday and, as he has done before, demonstrated that everyone who calls themselves a conservative is not a free marketer. The French President pressed for an expansion of global financial bureaucracies and...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Mar 30, 2010 | Big Government, Health Care, Privacy
In a great article written in response to the passage of the health care bill last week, Thomas Sowell argued that perhaps the biggest problem with a government controlled health care system is the inherent threat to privacy. The same argument can be made regarding...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Mar 21, 2010 | Big Government, Privacy, Taxation
According to the Sacramento Fox Network affiliate, a car wash in Sacramento recently came under investigation by the IRS and even received a visit from federal agents. The cause: The car wash owed a whopping four cents in backed taxes. Certainly there is a valid...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Jan 24, 2010 | Economic Growth, Free Market, Taxation
In a National Review Online article, Kevin Williamson notes that a proposed federal banking tax seems purely inspired by vilification politics, but will none-the-less put American banks at a very real competitive disadvantage in the global market: The new proposed tax...
