All Posts Tagged With: "tax burden"
How to Create the Illusion of Low Taxes
To the surprise of opponents of big government, the U.S Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates that taxes at all levels of government take only 9.2 percent of our income, the lowest rate since Harry Truman was president.
25May2010 | D.W. MacKenzie | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Tax Burden’s at a 60-Year Low?
Anyone who read the USA Today article proclaiming that the overall national tax burden is at a 60-year low of 9.2 percent must check out these articles from: Wall Street Pit The Washington Examiner Time Psst: USA Today didn’t count the second biggest federal tax or a major state tax.
14May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedTransfer Machine
“The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul,” George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his hypothesis is being tested. The theory of government I was taught says that government provides [...]
1Jan2010 | John Stossel | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Effrontery of the "Open Space" Movement
New Hampshire is called the “Live Free or Die”
state. It has garnered such a reputation as a bastion
of freedom that the Porcupine members
of the Free State Project selected it as the place to which
they would like to relocate in order to live more independently
and more productively.
Is Social Security Reform Paternalistic?
One great, and valid, complaint about Social Security is that it is paternalistic: it does things for the individual that he should do for himself. In so doing, it commits the twin transgressions of forcing some people to support others and making the beneficiaries the servile dependents of the state.
1Jan2004 | John Attarian | 1 comment | ContinuedPatriotic Tax Avoiders
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Little upsets politicians more than people attempting to escape their control. So it is with U.S. companies that have fled overseas, now attacked as being unpatriotic and worse by Washington pols. Over the [...]
1Jan2003 | Doug Bandow | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It
The word “greedy” is so hopelessly vague that it is virtually useless. But if anyone can be said to be greedy, it’s those who run the government. For them the word is appropriate both for how much money they want and how they get it: taxation, confiscation, fiscal force. Aside from a few freelance criminals, [...]
1Jul2000 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedCut Taxes, Not the Debt
Last fall’s standoff over the budget between the Republican Congress and Democratic President generated a curious by-product: more money to reduce the national debt. Some analysts want to devote future surpluses to the same purpose, perhaps eventually paying off the entire $5.6 trillion national debt.
1Apr2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment as Slave Owner
James Bovard is the author of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State & the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men . . . are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” This assertion captured the idealism and the principles of this nation’s [...]
1Feb2000 | James Bovard | 1 comment | ContinuedTaxation by Other Means
Max Schulz is an adjunct scholar at the Frontiers of Freedom Institute. Congress’s latest abominable action in the name of tax relief—the tax and budget agreement—was born midst a debate over money. That is, the arguments about taxes, pro and con, focused solely on the money due to the federal government each April 15. This [...]
1Feb1998 | Max Schulz | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Interventionism and the Erosion of Domestic Liberty
Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. “Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provision against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” —James Madison to Thomas Jefferson May 13, 1798 There is a tendency of [...]
1Nov1997 | Ted Galen Carpenter | 0 comments | ContinuedTaxing Time
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Income Tax Day is three months past, but only now are Americans finally finished paying for government. The Washington-based Tax Foundation reports [...]
1Jul1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Flat Tax
To the Editor: In his article “The Flat Tax: Simplicity Desimplified” (The Freeman, October 1996), Roger Garrison implies that those who favor the flat tax do not care about the size of the tax burden. Since the vast majority of flat-tax supporters are big advocates of lower taxes, and since all the major flat-tax proposals [...]
1Dec1996 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment’s Hostile Takeover
In the history of modern-day capitalism, there have been occasional misplaced concerns regarding corporate raids or hostile takeovers. Worries about corporate instability, excessive debt, and job losses mount when an individual or firm attempts to seize the reins of a corporation against the wishes of current management. In reality, of course, hostile takeovers are a [...]
1Oct1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 2 comments | ContinuedThe New York City Guide to Destroying an Economy
New York City once served as an international beacon of economic opportunity, attracting individuals and entrepreneurs from around the globe. But for several decades, New York’s entrepreneurial lights have been dimming, to the point now that they are all but extinguished. What brought about the demise of this once great city? The answer lies on [...]
1Aug1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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