A Short History of Recent Tax Cuts: Remembering the 1997 Clinton Tax Cuts
ClintonTax Cuts: In 1997 President Bill Clinton signed a tax cut bill that, among other things, created a new $500 child tax credit, raised the income limit for deductible IRAs, nearly doubled the...
View ArticleSenator Pat Toomey at Liberal Brookings Institute Explaining Tax Reform
Sen. Toomey also outlined how pro-growth tax reform presents a path forward to address our fiscal challenges, including the impending fiscal cliff. “So the first point I want to talk about is the...
View ArticleAnalyzing Left Wing Analysis: Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan – Closing Loopholes for...
The Leviathan State ensnares us all with the complications and expense of the tax code. See also “college perfesser” who makes the similar point about special tax preferences . “It isn’t easy being the...
View ArticleBig Government’s Profits – ExxonMobil and the Energy Tax – ExxonMobil Pays...
ExxonMobil Paid $1 Trillion in Taxes Since 1999, Three Times Its Profits READ MORE Carpe Diem 9 August 2012 Mark J. Perry (as reported at TaxProf Blog) ”For every dollar in profits it earns for its...
View ArticleTax Reform – WSJ Stephen Moore and a Critique – Rep. Dave Camp, Republican...
A WSJ Letter to the Editor succinctly challenges WSJ Free Markets For Free People. Stephen Moore has a different view and argues for the residential mortgage deduction status quo. “Stephen Moore...
View ArticleTax Fairness – Plutocracy; Tax Fairness – A Sophisticated Libertarian...
TaxProf Blog brings this tax fairness analysis to our attention. The Marxist Alinsky mantra is “Have Nots vs Haves” also that there is a systemic, and profoundly unfair distribution of wealth favoring...
View ArticleTaxing Businesses – The Willie Sutton Economic Policy – Because That’s Where...
The Marxist Alinsky – Willie Sutton – Obama “Tax the Rich” is an ongoing leitmotif of American politics and academic discourse. Street- smart, Philadelphia bank robber, Willie Sutton, explained this...
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