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Tax Winners and Losers
As is the case every April, the deadline for paying one’s federal income taxes brought forth many news features on the burden of taxation. This year was no different, with one article by former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer | Read More »
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Blogging Benefits
On April 6, I had an article in The New York Times arguing the term "supply-side economics" (SSE) had outlived its usefulness. I wasn’t criticizing SSE. On the contrary, I was celebrating its success because its central truths are now | Read More »
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Tax Facts
Just in time for tax-filing season, the Tax Foundation and Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation have compiled some useful facts about the federal tax system. Following are a few worth thinking about as taxpayers write their annual checks to Uncle | Read More »
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Economics on the Internet
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Coulter Consequences
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When Democrats Fired U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
George W. Bush and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales are taking a lot of heat from Democrats lately for allegedly discharging some U.S. attorneys for political reasons. Of course, the president has every right to fire any political appointee in his | Read More »
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Partisan Press Parity?
For most of my lifetime, criticism of media bias was largely confined to those on the right side of the political spectrum. When I first moved to Washington in the mid-1970s, conservatives called The Washington Post "Pravda on the Potomac" | Read More »
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Presidential Predicting
Although we are two years away from the first ballot being cast in the 2008 presidential election and don’t even know who the candidates will be, we already know a great deal about how the race will turn out. Historical | Read More »
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Republicans’ Cheney Problem
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Republican Party has a huge problem going into 2008. Usually, it has a clear frontrunner going into the process who is broadly acceptable to most Republicans. But in this election cycle, that is | Read More »
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Tax Gap Chimera
According to press reports, Democrats in Congress are planning a major effort to reduce the so-called tax gap. This consists of money owed to the federal government but not paid. According to the Internal Revenue Service, in 2001 the gross | Read More »
