by Dan Mitchell | Feb 29, 2012 | Blogs, Flat Tax, Taxation
This interview with the IRS Commissioner is really irritating. He wants us to believe that all the problems exist because of bad laws enacted by Congress. I certainly agree that the crowd in Washington is venal, corrupt, and duplicitous. But the IRS takes a bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
The overwhelming fiscal policy challenge for America is entitlement programs, as I explain in this set of videos. To protect America from becoming another Greece, we need personal retirement accounts for Social Security. We need vouchers for Medicare. And we need to...
by CF&P | Feb 21, 2012 | News, Press Releases
Center for Freedom and Prosperity For Immediate Release Tuesday, February 21, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Coalition for Tax Competition Letter Seeks Withdrawal of Destructive IRS Interest-Reporting Regulation (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 21,...
by CF&P | Feb 20, 2012 | Letters
[PDF Version] February 20, 2012 Hon. Timothy F. Geithner Secretary of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Secretary Geithner: We are troubled by the Treasury Department’s failure to withdraw a rule that faces near universal...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Flat Tax, Government Spending, Taxation
Leftists want higher tax rates and they want greater tax compliance. But they have a hard time understanding that those goals are inconsistent. Simply stated, people respond to incentives. When tax rates are punitive, folks earn and report less taxable income, and...
