Leftist politicians who want to get into our pocketbooks are beginning to argue that the COVID-19 pandemic is the best argument for a wealth tax.
Taxation
How To Disguise a Budget Increase as a Cut
The bottom line is that there is nothing historic about this budget, or these cuts.
Freedom of Inheritance: Repeal The Estate Tax
Repealing the inheritance tax means that substantial sums that would otherwise disappear into government spending programs will instead be used to make capital investments.
The Forgotten U.S. Federal Government Debt
It’s increasing by $1 trillion a year.
The Problem with the Wealth Tax
A Note on Asset Prices, Wealth, and Inequality
Government Spending is the Real Tax
Milton Friedman made the observation that the true size of government is measured not by how much it rakes in currently in taxes by how much it spends.
A Wealth Tax on the Rich Is Motivated By Anti-Capitalist Ideology and Not Economics
Is a proposed federal wealth tax on the ultra-rich the solution to America’s budget-deficit woes?
Dear Anti-Capitalist Billionaires, Why Wait For a Wealth Tax? Contribute Your Money Now!
George Soros and his son Alexander Soros, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, heiress Abigail Disney and “Anonymous” are free to give their wealth to politicians right now.
Punitive Taxation of America’s Richest
There’s nothing moral, “fair” or “progressive” about a graduated (communist) tax schedule.
On Tax Day Thank the Rich and Support Lifting the Tax Yoke off Them
Opponents of tax cuts do not want justice. They want redistribution of wealth
Your Fair Share of Taxes
Do we leave (wealth) in the private sector where the market decides? Or do we subject it to corrupt politicians?
Skin in the Game: Who Pays Federal Income Taxes
Some 45 percent of American households, nearly 78 million individuals, have no federal income tax obligation.
Pro-Capitalist Ideas Can Reverse Out-of-Control Government Spending and Taxing
The world of plunder can be replaced with a community of free people pursuing mutually beneficial peaceful production.
GOP Tax Reform Entrenches the Welfare State
This tax reform appears to have been designed primarily to help secure future funding for a large, and growing, welfare state. Is this really what most Republicans in Congress wanted?
The Facts About Corporate Taxation
Taxing corporate income doesn’t benefit but hurts workers while discouraging investment.
‘Tax Cuts for the Rich’?
One of the painful realities of our times is how long a political lie can survive, even after having been disproved years ago, or even generations ago.
Tax Cuts and Big Government Spending: An Analysis of Trump’s Plan
Unlike most prior tax cuts, the Trump version does not even make any attempt to balance the cuts with corresponding cuts in government spending.
Tax Avoidance is Moral
Those who think that government collecting taxes from those who are productive to give them to those who are not is just, do so because they have accepted the morality of altruism and egalitarianism and believe that statism is the ideal social system.
What Is the “Fair Share” of Taxes?
According to estimates by the Tax Policy Center, slightly over 45 percent of American households have no federal income tax liability.
Politicians’ Words: The Rich, Fair Share and Taxes
Plans to “soak the rich,” who are not paying their “fair share,” have worked politically, time and time again — and may well work yet again in the 2016 elections.
Death of a Patriot
Whether or not you agree with my father’s views on the Federal Income Tax, or the manner by which it is collected, it’s hard to condone the way he was treated by our government.
The Great FreedomFest Debate Was Like Watching Tom and Jerry
With apologies to his fans, Jerry is an evil little mouse who constantly pesters Tom the Cat. Tom tries and tries, but cannot seem to overpower someone who is a fraction of his size and strength.
Watching Stephen Moore attempt to debate Paul Krugman was like that.
A Government Cut Is a Taxpayer Keep
When Obama castigates spending cuts he is really criticizing your just demand to keep what you earn. So don’t feel so bad.
Defense Against Demagogues
This year’s congressional efforts to reduce corporate income tax will create great opportunities for demagogues.
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