Tax Cuts and the "Trickle Down" Economics Straw Man
by Thomas Sowell
(April 15, 2009)
Spending creates deficits -- and it is big spenders who fight hardest against cutting tax rates.
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Taxation 101: Who Pays Corporate Taxes?
by Walter Williams
(April 14, 2009)
A subject area in economics, called the incidence of taxation, says that the party upon whom a tax is levied does not necessarily pay the tax. They might shift it onto some other party. That's precisely what corporations do. They are merely tax collectors.
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Taxes and Prosperity Lost
by Walter Williams
(April 13, 2009)
You might wonder how congressmen can get away with taxes and other measures that reduce our prosperity potential. Part of the answer is the anti-business climate promoted in academia and the news media. The more important reason is that prosperity foregone is invisible.
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Government Deception About Government Finances
by Walter Williams
(April 8, 2009)
Congressional deception about government finances means today's children will face a financial disaster that will make today's mess seem like a walk in the park.
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Bernard Madoff is Small Potatoes Compared to the Government
by Ron Pisaturo
(March 13, 2009)
Will today's politicians ever confess in court as Madoff did yesterday?
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Taxing Times
by Thomas Sowell
(October 29, 2008)
Chief Justice John Marshall said it all in one sentence: "The power to tax is the power to destroy."
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Are Americans Pro-Slavery?
by Walter Williams
(June 11, 2008)
At what point should we consider ourselves a quasi free American -- when government takes two-thirds or three-quarters of our earnings?
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John Hancock and Cigarette Smuggling
by Walter Williams
(April 30, 2008)
Some smugglers are good people who differ little from the founders of our nation such as John Hancock, whose flamboyant signature graces our Declaration of Independence.
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The Burdern of Taxes and Other Congressional Lies
by Walter Williams
(November 14, 2007)
The fact that there are so many American earners who have little or no financial stake in our country poses a serious political problem. The Tax Foundation estimates that 41 percent of whites, 56 percent of blacks, 59 percent of American Indian and Aleut Eskimo and 40 percent Asian and Pacific Islanders had no 2004 federal income tax liability.
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The Pope Sanctions the OECD Thugs
by Walter Williams
(August 29, 2007)
Pope Benedict could benefit from a bit of schooling about taxation.
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