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  • RAHN: The end of the progressive income tax

    07/10/2014 5:40:08 AM PDT · by 1rudeboy · 83 replies
    Washington Times ^ | July 7, 2014 | Richard Rahn
    July 1 might go down in history as the beginning of the end of the comprehensive, progressive income tax. A progressive income tax, in which the government attempts to tax all labor income and capital income, such as interest, dividends and capital gains more than once, cannot help becoming so complex that it eventually dies of its own weight. This is particularly true when the government attempts to tax the worldwide income of its “tax persons” rather than the income located in its own territory. The complexity is caused by the never-ending attempt to define what income is and what...
  • The Fair Tax: A Vital Part of the Solution!

    11/10/2010 3:44:17 PM PST · by Dick Bachert · 178 replies
    Self | 11-10-2010 | Dick Bachert
    No question about it -- we are in deep trouble. Unemployment, manufacturing being killed here and jobs moving overseas, unrestrained spending and the resultant deficits being given cover by more and more printing press “money” and the inflation – or worse – that almost always follows, etc., etc. And when the new – ostensibly conservative -- members of Congress take their seats in January, we will only see the beginning of the long and painful process of retracing our steps back to Constitutional and fiscal sanity. It points to the fact that much of our trouble stems from a failure...
  • Estate-tax (DEATH TAX!) repeal vetoed 'Choose Life' license plate also rejected

    03/25/2003 3:33:53 AM PST · by putupon · 36 replies · 282+ views
    Richmond Times Dispatch (Times Dispatch, Distort, whatever) ^ | Mar 25, 2003 | MICHAEL HARDY AND PAMELA STALLSMITH
    <p>Gov. Mark R. Warner yesterday vetoed the estate-tax repeal and the controversial "Choose Life" license plate while seeking to soften bills he views as unjustified restrictions on abortion.</p> <p>The Democratic governor believes the Republican-controlled General Assembly will not muster the two-thirds votes to override his veto of the estate-levy plan.</p>