My Cato friend and tax policy expert Chris Edwards breaks-it down for the policy makers: Here are 10 freedom-crushing aspects of the income tax that policymakers should tackle: 1. Complexity and Ambiguity. Certainty in the law is a bulwark against arbitrary and abusive government. But there is no certainty under the income tax because it […]
Archives for April 2014
Anne Hidalgo: Paris’ First Lady Mayor Off To a Good Start
Anne Hidalgo’s initial proposals for making Paris a more welcoming city for travelers appear thoughtful as well as workable. After a deliberately uncharismatic campaign in keeping with her image as a hardworking civil servant, Hidalgo is “deputy” no more. “For a long time now, I’ve gone my own way, without having a team of spokespeople […]
Obamacare—a Gigantic Wealth Transfer
Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains the pitfalls of government dependency and why—when the welfare state becomes ever more unaffordable—it is bad for taxpayers and economic growth. As Margaret Thatcher reportedly said, “Eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Counting government employees, contractors and recipients of government programs, more than half of Americans receive at […]
Small Business Profile: Island Creek Oysters
Becky and I are familiar with the Island Creek success story because good friends of ours live in Duxbury, MA and hang-out with the founder and CEO Skip Bennett. If you like oysters, then you’ll love Island Creek Oysters. What’s great about Skip’s incredible story is that it was his desire for independence that drove […]
The Benghazi Cover Up: It Gets Worse
The principals are known. Why have they not been arrested? Here the WSJ looks into the botched effort Congress has made of the cover up investigation. Last week’s encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael Morell and the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence may have brought us a bit closer to the truth of how […]
Cato’s Roger Pilon on Global Warming
Roger Pilon discusses executive power overreach during recent EPA regulation on FOX’s Special Report w/ Bret Baier.
For Amazon and Bezos, the Sky Is Not the Limit
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is committed to what Jeff calls Kaizen, the Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement. Read here from Wired magazine how Bezos hopes to get stuff to us all more quickly and cheaply through the use of drones. “Nineteen years ago, I drove the Amazon packages to the post office every evening in […]
A Bloated (and Expensive) Diet of Political Correctness
Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels writes in Forbes how our federalized food system is designed to please as many lobbies as possible. Last year, for example, half of our corn was burned up “to please the environmental lobby (global warming), the farm lobby (bloated corn prices) and the defense lobby (energy security).” Next year the U.S. […]
IRS Employees Support Obama
Your tax dollars hard at work by employees of the IRS. Reason reports: We already know that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a long history of wielding its awesome clout against political opponents of sitting presidents, powerful members of Congress, and the tax collectors themselves, but who are IRS employees for? Well, President Obama seems to tickle their […]
Reports Cards are in: LA County gets a “D”
It looks like residents are voting with their feet in Los Angeles. The WSJ reports: Which metro area in the U.S. has suffered a greater economic collapse over the last two decades than Detroit? Hint: It’s a common fundraising stop for President Obama. The answer, according to a new UCLA Anderson School of Management study, is […]
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