By William Murchison (Archive) · Tuesday, April 26, 2011 I haven’t investigated, but I’m sure of it. A pollster in ancient Babylonia was sampling the citizenry on a proposal to raise money by taxing the vineyards and flesh pots of the obscenely rich. I don’t know a word of ancient Babylonian, but can we doubt [...]

Apr 24, 2011 By Chuck Rogér In January 1981, America’s Jimmy Carter disaster plodded to a merciful close.  A new President judged the time right to acknowledge something that people had been realizing in greater and greater numbers since LBJ’s Great Society programs began ruining America.  In his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan declared, “In [...]

Apr 23, 2011 By Jim Gilmore Credit former Vice President Walter Mondale. His call last Sunday for higher taxes in a national opinion column comes as bold and clear as his infamous 1984 pledge to the Democratic National Convention to raise taxes if elected president. I admire the vice president’s clarity. But with respect to [...]

The President floats another payroll tax hike. Apr 22, 2011 WSJ President Obama’s deficit pitch is that if only a fraction of the highest income Americans were “asked to pay a little bit more” the fiscal seas would part—but all those little bits are starting to pile up. Speaking Tuesday in Annandale, Virginia, Mr. Obama [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, April 21, 2011 Last week, President Obama reversed course once again and now wants to raise taxes on the “rich” making above $250,000 per year. Obama is in dire need of additional revenue after proposing a $3.8 trillion 2011 budget — containing the largest deficit in U.S. history [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, April 21, 2011 Did Barack Obama take Tax 1 in law school? I did, and I remember the first day of classes, when mild mannered Professor Boris Bittker asked a simple question, “What is income?” I was pretty confident I could come up with a quick answer, and so [...]

The state’s Democrats are going rogue by calling on Gov. Lincoln Chafee to cut more spending. Apr 19, 2011 WSJ By ALLYSIA FINLEY Rhode Island Democrats are going rogue by running to the right of Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent who defected from the GOP a few years ago. To close the state’s $295 million [...]

Obama wants to raise taxes. So does Mondale. Obama won’t tell you. Mondale just did. Apr 18, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Remember Walter Mondale? Oddly enough, we do, mostly for this fun fact: He’s the only major-party American politician to have lost elections in all 50 states. In 1984, he told Americans to take [...]

By Gary Dettloff and Michael Hamrick Published April 18, 2011 FoxNews.com Today is Tax Day. As the clock ticks down to our annual April tax deadline and midnight approaches like a public execution, the cost of government is much on the public mind. And nothing has united American interest across the political spectrum more than [...]

Obama targets the middle class while pretending to tax only the rich. APR 17, 2011 WSJ A dominant theme of President Obama’s budget speech last Wednesday was that our fiscal problems would vanish if only the wealthiest Americans were asked “to pay a little more.” Since he’s asking, imagine that instead of proposing to raise [...]