There are big differences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Apr 29, 2012 WSJ By PETE DU PONT As the presidential election is just over six months away and both parties have chosen their candidates, the campaign is now fully with us. We are in a very serious and close presidential race; Barack Obama and [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, May 1, 2012 In the 1993 movie “Dave” the faux president (played by Kevin Kline) calls in his best friend (played by Charles Grodin) and they stay up all night balancing the federal budget, not by raising taxes, but by cutting unnecessary and wasteful spending. If only it were [...]

By Rich Galen (Archive) · Monday, April 30, 2012 According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple (neé Apple Computer) “is the most valuable company” in the world. On the heels of its quarterly report last week, stock in Apple reached nearly $620 per share before settling back to end the week at $602. The WSJ [...]

By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI Published: April 28, 2012 RENO, Nev. — Apple, the world’s most profitable technology company, doesn’t design iPhones here. It doesn’t run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn’t manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employees in a small office here in Reno, [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman’s job of keeping track of how much we’re paying in taxes and who’s paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan. 1 to April 17, 107 days, to earn enough money to [...]

Apr 24, 2012 – By Taylor Bigler Jon Lovitz, an early “Saturday Night Live” cast member, had some harsh words for President Barack Obama over the weekend. In an interview with “Clerks” director Kevin Smith, Lovitz, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008, bashed the president for his class warfare rhetoric and the [...]

Apr 24, 2012 – By David Shepardson Detroit— General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt defended the company’s payment of income taxes after protesters interrupted his speech here at the SAE World Congress. “Tax rate was 29 percent last year,” Immelt told a couple protesters at Cobo Center as they chanted “pay your fair share” a few [...]

America is no longer as attractive to highly successful people as we like to think. Apr 23, 2012 WSJ By WILLIAM MCGURN People say the dollar isn’t what it used to be. Apparently neither is a United States passport. Last year, nearly 1,800 American expatriates renounced their citizenship, according to Treasury Department figures. What gives? [...]

Over the past decade, states without an income levy have seen much higher growth than the national average. Which state will be next to abolish theirs? Apr 20, 2012 WSJ By ARTHUR LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE Barack Obama is asking Americans to gamble that the U.S. economy can be taxed into prosperity. That’s the message [...]

By Phil Kerpen Published April 19, 2012 FoxNews.com President Obama and Democrats in Congress are trying to use the deficits created by their spending spree as an excuse to raise taxes. All we have to do is tax the millionaires and billionaires, they say, and our deficits will disappear.  But it’s an historical fact that [...]