We keep hearing again and again and again from the media that Timothy Geithner, President-elect Obama’s choice as Treasury secretary, made an honest mistake in failing to pay employment taxes.
For a supposed conservative Charles Krauthammer certainly has some strange ideas about economics. He has long supported the idea of raising gasoline taxes in order to wean Americans off their supposed…
We all are being told to cut back, but of course, governments across the nation refuse to do so. Their greed continues unabated despite the suffering of taxpayers. Governors from…
CNBC estimates that all the federal bailouts total $4.28 trillion so far: “That’s $4,284,500,000,000 and more than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation, based on our…
Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has an excellent op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. It begins: Congressional Democrats are now demanding another economic stimulus package to “inject” as…
Though not outside the realm of possibility this seems inordinately gloomy: analyst Martin Hennecke warns that the U.S. government may lose its AAA bond rating unless it starts reining…
Fiscal responsibility will not be a priority of the incoming 111th Congress, the Wall Street Journal editorializes today: As Congress gears up to pass another spending “stimulus” bill, there’s…
The Pacific Research Institute recently released its “U.S. Economic Freedom Index: 2008 Report” and the results are pretty interesting. PRI defines economic freedom as “the right of individuals…
From the Petty Green Tyranny Department, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to nickel and dime consumers by slapping a 5-cent tax on plastic grocery bags.