Archive for October 2005
Tax Hikes (Labeled as Reforms) Go to Washington
October 14, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
An article by Lawrence Hunter and Phil Kerpen in the Hawaii Reporter begins:
The President’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform got hijacked this week and is heading toward the White House loaded up with tax increases ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
‘Where’s the Reform,’ Tax Groups Wonder
October 14, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
A new article on CNSNews.com catalogs some of the early disappointment in response to the President's tax commission. An excerpt:
The Free Enterprise Fund, a group that lobbies for lower taxes, blasted what it called ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
FairTax Cited on Instapundit
October 13, 2005 · Category: Public Support
Glenn Reynolds has been strangely silent on the subject of the FairTax, until now.
Today he noted Boortz's unhappiness with the President's tax reform panel (unfortunately, the link to Boortz's entry is currently broken), ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
A Report Card for the President’s Tax Panel
Now here's a perspective that certainly makes sense.
I just posted this in the comments section of the tax panels web site (www.taxreformpanel.gov). I would like to encourage everyone else to compose their own comments.
On January ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 13 Comments »
Tax Reform Panel Aims to Destroy the Economy
I see Joshua already gave the link to Nealz Nuze, and more information can be found at this MarketWatch article. The panel wants to remove the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), not because they want ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 8 Comments »
President’s Tax “Reform” Panel Ducking True Reform
Today brings disappointing news from the President's so-called Tax Reform Panel. Here's the scoop, via today's Nuze:
The president's so-called tax reform commission telegraphed its intentions several months ago when members stated that they were ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 7 Comments »
Gingrich: Government Fakes Anti-Reform Numbers
Below is an incisive article by Newt Gingrich and Peter Ferrara that appeared a couple weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal. The article provides plenty of empirical evidence for the following take-home-message:
The methodologies ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
OK Professors Advocate National Retail Sales Tax
An interesting editorial by Ron Shaw (chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance at Oklahoma City University) and Vince Orza (dean of the Meinders School of Business at OCU) appearing in the October 9 ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 5 Comments »
Russia Dumping the VAT for a National Sales Tax
October 10, 2005 · Category: vs. VAT Tax
Sounds like Russia is planning to move from a VAT to a national sales tax:
MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) -- Head of the Russian Presidential Administration's Expert Board told journalists Wednesday on the sidelines of ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
The K-Street Lobbyists are Stirring
I was out of town when it was originally posted, and just now caught this gem from Neal's Nuze on September 28th:
Last night as I pulled into a parking lot outside of Turner Field (the ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
Let’s Throw a FairTax Tea Party
October 9, 2005 · Category: Activism, Political Support
All of the people who write for this blog, and many of those who read it, are passionate about getting the FairTax enacted into law. But at times, it's not easy to get the ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 4 Comments »
Boortz Beats Hannity and Limbaugh in Some Cities
Neal Boortz will be signing copies of The FairTax Book in Grand Junction, Colorado this evening.
A new article by Gary Harmon in yesterday's edition of Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel provides some interesting information about Boortz ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
The Useless Laffer Curve
October 2, 2005 · Category: Education
Many folks believe in the Laffer Curve as a basis for supply-side economics. Listening to folks like Sean Hannity on the radio, they constantly harp on the idea that cutting taxes will increase revenues. ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 3 Comments »
Is the FairTax a NeoCon Conspiracy?
October 1, 2005 · Category: Criticisms
It never ceases to amaze me how the rhetoric of our opponents gets ratcheted up. I point you to James at The American Liberalism Blog, who not only doesn't have any understanding of the ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 11 Comments »
