Buffett tax is a gimmick that divides Americans for political gain By Emily Miller The Washington Times Tuesday, April 10, 2012 President Obama flew Air Force One to Florida on Tuesday, bringing along the mobile White House entourage to call for a tax bill based on class envy. The Buffett rule is the highlight of [...]

Apr 10, 2012 By Stephen Collinson (AFP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s campaign formally welcomed Republican Mitt Romney to the White House duel Tuesday, with a caustic warning: the more Americans see of him, the less they like him. Romney effectively clinched the Republican presidential nomination when his last remaining rival Rick Santorum bowed out, [...]

A history lesson on capital gains taxes. Apr 9, 2012 WSJ In “Annie Hall,” Woody Allen tells the joke of two women complaining about a restaurant. The first says the food here is awful and the second replies, yes, and they serve such small portions. Sounds like President Obama’s proposal to raise the capital-gains tax: [...]

Americans will be hit with a huge tax increase unless Congress acts By Ed Feulner The Washington Times Monday, April 9, 2012 Many Americans are breathing a sigh of relief as they finally manage to file their income tax returns. No need to worry about taxes again for another year, right? Not so fast. Higher [...]

By ALAN FARNHAM April 9, 2012 Strange, unlikely, surreal: Take the tax codes of the 50 states, apply a magnifying glass, and here and there, hiding amongst the small print, are specimens that would amaze P.T. Barnum: A tax on fur, a tax on nudity; taxes on bagels (if sliced, but not if intact); on [...]

Any analysis of taxes paid in high tax-and-spend countries shows that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system in the world. Apr 5, 2012 WSJ By PHIL GRAMM AND STEVE MCMILLIN In the stagnant days of the Carter administration, when inflation was approaching 13.5% and interest rates were peaking at 21.5%, income was [...]

By Jeff Jacoby (Archive) · Thursday, April 5, 2012 Each year in the United States, an estimated 6.1 billion hours are spent complying with the federal tax code. I’m pretty sure at least half of those hours are spent by me. With less than two weeks remaining before this year’s tax returns are due, I’ve [...]

White House’s proposed global minimum tax would devastate the economy By Emily Miller The Washington Times Monday, April 2, 2012 President Obama will follow anyone to the ends of the earth to get his tax dollars. If someone makes a buck in, say, Tahiti, the administration wants to dispatch an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent [...]

Mar 28, 2012 By Paul Bedard The Internal Revenue Service wants to add about 4,000 agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303 million building a system to oversee Obamacare even though its future looks bleak in the U.S. Supreme Court. A new Government Accountability Office review of the IRS 2012 [...]

Trying to justify health care law By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Tuesday, March 27, 2012 While the fate of President Obama’s health care law remains an open question, the Supreme Court was far more clear on one issue Tuesday: The law’s backers won’t be able to justify the individual mandate to purchase health insurance [...]