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Economics, Taxes and Spending

2 good reasons for an internet sales tax

Abby McCloskey | April 22, 2013, 3:23 pm

As early as today, the Senate may vote to allow states to collect taxes on Internet sales. read more >

Carpe Diem

One of private charity’s unappreciated benefits: protection against the coercive and confiscatory power of the state

Mark J. Perry | January 15, 2013, 12:59 pm

Ben Zycher makes some excellent points in yesterday’s Investor’s Business Daily about a very important, and yet underappreciated, role of America’s private charitable organizations – they help protect us from the “coercive and confiscatory power of the state,” here are some excerpts: Charities and other … read more >

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Economics, Taxes and Spending

Sorry, conservatives: Tax rates are going up

Michael R. Strain | December 14, 2012, 11:14 am

From my latest article in The Atlantic: Given that our structural deficit overwhelmingly reflects a spending problem and not a revenue problem, it is unfortunate that the Democrats have succeeded in making the opening battle in the fiscal cliff a … read more >

Carpe Diem

President Kennedy responds to Paul Krugman

Mark J. Perry | November 19, 2012, 6:28 pm

Paul Krugman waxed nostalgic in today’s New York Times about the income tax rates of the 1950s and early 1960s, when the highest marginal tax rate on individual income was 91%, and the highest corporate tax rate was 52%. Here … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Sorry, Ezra Klein: The ‘one tax graph you need to know’ needs more context

Michael Strain and Stan Veuger | September 26, 2012, 2:04 pm

The problem with the graph that Mr. Klein has popularized is not that it includes taxes which it shouldn’t. Instead, it excludes taxes that it shouldn’t. read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Death by taxes

Christopher J. Conover | April 13, 2012, 3:21 pm

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has concluded that there’s an extra 13 auto accident deaths attributable to Income Tax Day (i.e., generally April 15, but which falls on April 17 this year). This is … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Buffett Rule tax just the start for Obama

James Pethokoukis | April 10, 2012, 11:13 am

It won’t stop with the Buffett Rule, at least if President Barack Obama has his way. Making sure “no millionaire pays less than 30 percent of their income in taxes” — as the White House describes its proposal — would be … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Paul Krugman’s very strange attack on Paul Ryan

James Pethokoukis | April 9, 2012, 1:50 pm

Let’s put aside Paul Krugman’s rather scurilous ad hominem attack today on Rep. Paul Ryan. (“He’s a garden-variety modern G.O.P. extremist, an Ayn Rand devotee who believes that the answer to all problems is to cut taxes on the rich and … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

What would Obama’s Buffett Rule tax really accomplish?

James Pethokoukis | April 9, 2012, 10:34 am

The New York Times: President Obama and Senate Democrats will kick off a coordinated pressure campaign on Republicans next week ahead of a tax day vote on legislation to enact the president’s “Buffett Rule,” which would ensure that the rich … read more >