Taxes as Behavior Modification
(This entry originally posted May 25, 2005 at unrepentantindividual.com. The argument is more for tax simplification and the immorality of taxing to encourage/discourage certain behaviors than the...
View ArticleProtecting the Poor from Paying Taxes
Many people view sales taxes as a “regressive” form of taxation and have conerns about its impact on the poor and middle class. Fortunately, these issues have been thought through very carefully by the...
View ArticleThe K-Street Lobbyists are Stirring
I was out of town when it was originally posted, and just now caught this gem from Neal’s Nuze on September 28th: Last night as I pulled into a parking lot outside of Turner Field (the home of the...
View ArticleGingrich: Government Fakes Anti-Reform Numbers
Below is an incisive article by Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara that appeared a couple weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal. The article provides plenty of empirical evidence for the following...
View ArticlePresident's Tax "Reform" Panel Ducking True Reform
Today brings disappointing news from the President’s so-called Tax Reform Panel. Here’s the scoop, via today’s Nuze: The president’s so-called tax reform commission telegraphed its intentions several...
View ArticleMises Institute Slams FairTax Book
Writing for the free-market Ludwig von Mises Institute, Laurence Vance can’t find enough bad things to say about the FairTax Book. As far as I can tell, his basic gripe is that the FairTax won’t roll...
View ArticleThe BOINC Challenge
Let’s have some fun and play with science. The FairTaxScorecard issues a challenge to all online Fair Tax Supporters to unite and show our strength while supporting scientific research with distributed...
View ArticleWho Benefits Most From AMT Reform?
In the news recently, and in Congress, discussion has focused upon how the AMT’s net is widening, and the looming “crisis” when it spreads. There’s expected to be an enormous (4x or more) increase in...
View ArticleImmigration and the FairTax
From reader Earl Foreman: I would like to see or hear some comment on the immigration issues that are currently in the news. It seems to me the issue of illegal immigration might be eased by FairTax....
View ArticleGlobal Taxation
Let’s count the taxation ways – Sales taxes, School taxes, Property taxes, Village taxes, County taxes, State taxes, Federal taxes, fee taxes, etc. I think there is a song for this. And now Global...
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