Fairness on Townhall

The Marketplace Fairness Act Will Support Small Businesses Sun Apr 28

Stephen DeMaura

Republicans in Ohio last week took an important step toward broad tax reform when the state House of Representatives approved an across-the-board reduction in the personal income tax. ... more
There's Nothing Fair About the Marketplace Fairness Act Wed Apr 24

Jeff Jacoby

If truth-in-labeling rules applied to Congress, the proposed law giving states the power to collect sales tax from out-of-state online retailers would be named the Marketplace Unfairness Act. ... more
Income Taxes and Fairness Wed Apr 17

Mike Shedlock

Are your taxes fair? Over half of Americans Say Their Income Taxes are Fair. And 46.6% Paid No Income Tax in 2011. The top 20 percent of Americans earn 53.4 percent of the total U.S. income, but pay 67.2 percent of total income tax. Is that fair? ... more
If There Are No Winners, We’re All Losers Tue Apr 2

Robert Knight

The last time I was in Ipswich, Massachusetts, I had one of the tastiest plates of fried clams imaginable. They were fresh, full-bellied and cooked perfectly. Try getting something like this outside the Bay State. ... more
Top Five Reasons Conservatives Oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act Mon Mar 25

Katie McAuliffe

Retailers claim nationally that states could raise $23 billion in revenue if they collected Internet sales tax, and then they whine when taxpayers point out that it is a tax increase. ... more
Tackling Fairness and Justice Sat Dec 29

Linda Chavez

The last year has been a tough one for conservatives. The hope that four years of failed policy would be enough to repudiate the liberal/progressive ideology of the Obama administration ended when the majority of the American public voted to maintain their entitlements -- so long as someone else paid for them. ... more
Obama vs. America's Fiscal Health Fri Dec 28

David Limbaugh

The reason President Obama and Republicans can't come to an agreement on the fiscal cliff negotiations is that they don't share the same goals. This is also the key to understanding why President Obama appears far less worried about going over the cliff. ... more
We Have a Problem -- A Real Problem Thu Dec 13

Neal Boortz

No .. I’m not talking about the fiscal cliff, nor am I talking about the almost $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities we face as a nation. ... more
Welcome to the Thugocracy Wed Dec 12

Ben Shapiro

"I'm in the top two percent," said Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, this week on CNBC. "Right now, I'm paying 45 percent of my total income in income taxes ... You tell me, what's fair about that when medieval serfs pay 25 percent, I'm paying half? I don't care what the majority voted to do, they don't have a right to steal my money just because they vote for it." ... more
The Kingdom of Fairness Thu Dec 6

Victor Davis Hanson

We are still borrowing more than $1 trillion a year. Barack Obama has added more than $5 trillion to the national debt in just his first term alone. Such massive borrowing is unsustainable. Someone somehow at some time has to pay it back. ... more
The Fallacies That Guide Us Fri Nov 30

Mona Charen

Republicans find themselves in the unenviable position of being forced to agree to raise taxes on those earning more than $200,000 (the actual cut off for those Mr. Obama refers to as "millionaires and billionaires"), or risk being blamed for a tax increase on all taxpaying Americans. They will probably agree, which means it's a politically unavoidable policy, not a good policy. ... more
America's True National Debt: $87 Trillion Wed Nov 28

Guy Benson
Congressional Liberals: This Fiscal Cliff is Pretty Great, Actually Mon Nov 26

Guy Benson
So What If Taxing Rich Hurts the Economy? Thu Nov 22

Larry Elder

Consider this headline from a Reuters article in The Huffington Post: "Raising Taxes on Rich Won't Hurt Economic Growth, CBO Says." ... more
Democrats: Absent Tax Hikes, We're Totally Willing to Head Over the Fiscal Cliff Fri Nov 16

Guy Benson
Loose Lips and False Fairness Sink Battleships Sat Nov 3

Charles Payne

People who hate a physical war cheer a war on success and profits and upward mobility. Many are ready to dismantle the nation all out of a false notion of fairness. ... more
Democrats Used Fairness Doctrine to ‘Challenge and Harass’ Conservative Opposition Sun Sep 23

Fred Lucas

The Democratic National Committee, with the approval of President Lyndon B. Johnson engaged in an effort that eventually led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Fairness Doctrine. What would have been a major scandal had it been discovered, was revealed years later in former CBS News president Fred Friendly’s book “The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment.” ... more
A Book for Republicans Wed May 23

Thomas Sowell

Democrats have been having a field day with the cry of "tax cuts for the rich" -- for which Republicans seem to have no reply. This is especially surprising, because Democrats made the same arguments back in the 1920s, and the Republicans then not only had a reply, but one that eventually carried the day, when the top tax rate was brought down from 73 percent to 24 percent. ... more
The One and Fairness Tue May 22

Armstrong Williams

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 tell us what fairness really means. ... more
Hating the Rich Sat May 19

Bill O'Reilly

My late father was a man of strong opinion. He despised phonies, cowards and liars. He named names -- sometimes in very close proximity to those being singled out. A veteran of World War II, he recognized a weasel when he saw one. ... more
Insight: Who got Facebook shares? Fairness may not come into it Fri May 18

Reuters News
Making Life Fair Wed May 16

John Stossel

When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so. ... more
Redistributing Tinier Slices of Obama's Economic Pie Fri Apr 27

Donald Lambro

WASHINGTON - Somewhere between the New Frontier and the Age of Obama, the Democrats turned fiercely anti-capitalism, anti-business, anti-wealth and anti-success. ... more
Corporate Tax "Fairness" That Is Anything But Wed Apr 18

Mike Lee

“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 everybody fairly.” It is a theme he has repeatedly emphasized: making the tax code more equitable so that everyone pays their fair share. But like most of the president’s initiatives, the rhetoric does not reflect the reality. ... more
Obama's Fraudulent Investment Wed Apr 18

Terry Jeffrey

President Barack Obama last week visited Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. -- a small city of 15 golf courses -- so he could preach to some of his humble campaign contributors his vision of American frugality. ... more