Negative Space: taxes
- Eminent domain and withholding federal spending
- Kelo has brought out the worst in local governments and the federal government. Now the House is using what may tie with eminent domain as the power of government with the most potential for abuse.
- Even the experts can’t do their taxes
- When even the head of the I.R.S. can’t do his own taxes, it’s time to simplify them.
- Five Million Times Easier!
- I’ve got a way to make the IRS’ job five million times easier. And your tax forms half as difficult.
- Flat tax
- Why no flat tax? Because most people wouldn’t pay taxes.
- Fred Thompson vs. Barack Obama
- What would a good election campaign be like? Is it possible to have an election season focussed on issues and principles? I think it is, and I think it will depend on which candidates we support during the primaries.
- Geithner-Daschle-Rangel tax simplification act of 2009
- Here’s a way for the Republicans to be bipartisan: help Democrats overcome their tax misfilings.
- My Pet Crisis
- Someone needs to send President Obama a copy of The Pet Goat. Panic is not the right response to a financial crisis.
- None of you has ever seen a dead donkey
- If Democrats won by shifting to the right, we may not see much difference in the next two years.
- Punishing low-tax states
- An Internet sales tax that looks at the customer’s state instead of the seller’s state punishes states with low sales taxes and inhibits competition.
- The return of voodoo mathematics
- Voodoo mathematics and tax philosophy. Nobody serious believes that tax increases increase economic growth.
- Simple, obvious, and unobstructive: minimize the value-minus of taxes
- There is no value-added in taxes, but we can minimize the loss of value.
- Social Security reform and the polls
- Republican efforts on social security reform may pay off even if polls indicate people don’t currently support reform.
- Tax individuals, not organizations
- Taxes on businesses are just a way of hiding taxes so that people don’t know they’re being taxed.
- Taxing the rich to pay for preschool in California
- Yeah, okay, my bias is that I hate complicated tax systems. And I hate tax systems that pretend to be about taxing the rich and end up, in the end, taxing everyone. For that matter, while it beats the hell out of taxing the poor, I don’t particularly like singling out one class for taxes that benefit everyone. But I do love me some irony.
- What does 1.2 trillion dollars buy?
- What can you get for 1.2 trillion nowadays? How about two and a half years of no employer-side payroll taxes?
- The withholding of the beast
- Does this prove that taxes are sinful? Or that the end of the world is nigh?
