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Thomas Sowell (May 22, 2012)
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible,...
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Cal Thomas (May 22, 2012)
In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other.
As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper...
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Armstrong Williams (May 22, 2012)
As grateful as I am for Barack Obama’s profound, nonsensical meditations on the meaning of hope, I am even more grateful that the One has come to make the world fair, and to...
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Cal Thomas (May 01, 2012)
In the 1993 movie "Dave" the faux president (played by Kevin Kline) calls in his best friend (played by Charles Grodin) and they stay up all night balancing the federal...
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Mike Lee (Apr 18, 2012)
“The whole concept of corporate tax reform,” President Obama said on announcing his new plan to accomplish the task, “is to simplify, eliminate loopholes, [to] treat...
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Michael Medved (Apr 18, 2012)
Why now?
That’s the one question about the present push for the “Buffett Rule” that President Obama can’t answer – at least not without exposing his own proposal as the...
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Paul Greenberg (Apr 17, 2012)
"April is the cruelest month. . . ."--T. S. Eliot, [ital The Waste Land [unital]
Ronald Reagan said it back in 1983: "Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly...
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Debra J. Saunders (Apr 17, 2012)
President Barack Obama calls his proposed tax on millionaires the "Buffett rule," based on financier Warren Buffett's claim that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary....
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John C. Goodman (Apr 14, 2012)
Income tax time is an appropriate moment to go to the heart of President Obama’s complaint about the taxes Warren Buffett and other rich people pay, or don’t pay. What the...
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Jacob Sullum (Mar 28, 2012)
On Monday, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the Supreme Court the "shared responsibility payment" required of Americans who fail to obtain government-approved...
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Debra J. Saunders (Mar 18, 2012)
California Gov. Jerry Brown likes to talk about "loyalty to California." For Brown, that means that public people should put aside their partisan interests to do what is best...
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Michael Barone (Mar 01, 2012)
I have long been puzzled by the enthusiasm with which many young liberal bloggers cheer on proposals to raise tax rates on high earners. I can understand why they might favor...
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Bruce Bialosky (Feb 06, 2012)
For over thirty years, I have represented citizens in matters with the Internal Revenue Service. Most Americans have an irrational fear of the IRS. Whether they pay very...
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Larry Elder (Feb 02, 2012)
Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid "only" 14 percent of his income in taxes.
The honest answer -- "Well,...
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Jacob Sullum (Feb 01, 2012)
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama used billionaire investor Warren Buffett's secretary, Debbie Bosanek, as a prop to illustrate the unfairness of...
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Bruce Bialosky (Jan 09, 2012)
To even write a column with this title risks being classified as someone out of touch with average Americans. Nevertheless, I’m confident in my conviction on this issue; and,...
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Emmett Tyrrell (Dec 08, 2011)
WASHINGTON -- Do my eyes deceive me? It seems that the Republicans are in danger of losing the debate on cutting taxes. Some 30 years after President Ronald Reagan proved...
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Ann Coulter (Nov 23, 2011)
Bored with the Penn State scandal because it didn't implicate any prominent Republicans, the mainstream media have suddenly become obsessed with Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer...
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Hugh Hewitt (Nov 18, 2011)
There are three "keystone deductions" in the IRS code that matter more than all others to Americans who itemize deductions.
They are keystone deductions because they help...
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Austin Hill (Oct 02, 2011)
Just because you’ve excelled in your chosen career field doesn’t mean that you have a clue about economics.
And just because people claim that they are being...
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