We owe a lot to our billionaires! I know there is a lot of disrespect and accusations that they aren’t paying their fair share to…
Category: Taxes
Creation of a Monster
Posted in Taxes
In the 110 years since the Sixteenth Amendment authorized the personal income tax, we have created an expensive and burdensome monster with tentacles in our…
Media typically reported enthusiastically about “creation” of 228,000 new jobs in November of 2017. For Example: Could we have a little context? I checked the…
Irrational Government Meddling: Stop It!
Posted in Government, and Taxes
There are at least five good reasons government should not meddle in the affairs of private free enterprise. There is no accountability because most or…
It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
I seldom agree with Leonard Pitts, but today he has a good suggestion. He is very upset about the election of Donald Trump and lists…
The currently trendy demonization of capitalism and profits and the misperception that “non-profits” are somehow better or more virtuous than for-profit enterprises are unfortunate. Greed…
Here begins some introduction to the original post, updated now because it looks like higher marginal income tax rates are once again on the federal…