All Blog Posts Tagged 'taxes' (6)

Government Overreach: The Internal Revenue Service official  in charge of tax-exempt organizations when the unit targeted Tea Party groups  now runs the IRS office responsible for enforcing ObamaCare.

As bad as the IRS scandal was, with the taxing body of government using its …

Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the  Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a  taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign  donor.

Using the Citizens United case as a pretext, retiring Sen. Carl Levin, …

Demographics: Just as baby boomers are reaching retirement or fleeing  the state, a dearth of children threatens to turn the Golden State into the  golden years state with potentially dire economic consequences.

California was once a leader where the "next big thing" would happen and then  migrate…

Budget Policy: Even if we don't raise the debt ceiling, enough revenue  will still come in to the Treasury to pay our interest, our bonds and essential  services. The government will not shut down— only its ability to borrow.

Like the fiscal cliff, the dangers of hitting the debt…

Fiscal Policy: Talk of Clinton-era tax rates ignores the fact that the  former president, working with a GOP Congress, cut spending as a share of GDP  and produced four balanced budgets by focusing on growth, not spending.

Even as he pushes $150 billion in new "stimulus" spending, President…

Leadership: The president's narcissistic self-insertion into official presidential biographies would have us believe the Great Communicator would agree with the Great Teleprompter Reader on taxes. Well, there he goes again.

Not willing to wait until his visage is enshrined next to actor and donor George Clooney on Mt. Rushmore, President Obama's helpers have notoriously inserted their fearless leader into the official White House biographies of virtually every former president…