Browsing the archives for the taxes tag
Romney: How I’ll tackle spending, debt. There are three ways to reduce spending, which combined, will achieve a fiscal turnaround of this size. First, eliminate every government program that is not absolutely essential. There are many things government does that we may like but that we do not need. The test should be this: “Is [...]
via Free Republic: President Barack Obama will ask the Super Committee to double its mandate and cut $3 trillion from the federal deficit, according to White House officials, with half of the savings coming from tax increases on corporations the wealthy. Republicans have already rejected a central component of the plan — the so-called “Buffett Rule,” [...]
I’ve noticed that, in time, the government has grown larger, the taxes are more numerous, and our freedoms have been minimized. Sure, it’s easy to accept these facts, since we’re all born into them, and have grown accustomed to them. From the moment you’re able to talk and understand what others are saying, you’re told [...]
Treasury Secretary (and tax cheat slash hypocrite) Timothy Geithner tackles five myths about TARP and for the most part he’s right. TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program signed by Bush in 2008 to save the banks has not been the disaster that many on the right and left claimed. Michael Medved notes why as he [...]
Jonah Goldberg raises the following questions of leftist logic while asking how much taxation is enough? Personally, I have never understood liberalism’s blind spot for liberty when it comes to taxation. A 24-hour waiting period before a teenager can have an abortion is an allegedly grotesque violation of individual freedom, but a federal government that [...]