Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Isn't Anything Ever Simple?

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Suddenly there's been a flood of speeches, articles and blog bits focusing on a connection between the number of jobs in the economy (in...
Monday, September 06, 2004

Thoughtless Demagoguery: Keeping Logic from Trumping Emotion

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Buried in last week’s news was the announcement that Medicare premiums are slated for a 17% increase next year. That means the monthly fee o...
Friday, September 03, 2004

Complex Simplicity and Simple Complexity

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I took a look today at the text of the President's speech to the Republican National Convention. A student had stopped by my office earl...

Farewell to a Friend

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I should have known better. Early in the afternoon on Wednesday I posted my blog entry about the case upholding licensing requirements on o...
Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Internet: Death and Taxes

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Busy day, but I can't let this go by. It's too good an opportunity. As seen in earlier posts, such as this one , I've babble...
Tuesday, August 31, 2004

So What Are You?, They Ask.

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What are you politically, that is. I've always maintained that I don't fit any label. Now there's a place where one can go and g...
Monday, August 30, 2004

Equitable Taxation

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My comment, in a previous blog post , that "Scholars, most economists, many lawyers, and others agree that a progressive income tax is ...
Friday, August 27, 2004

The Troubles of Social Security

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In remarks ( here , here , and here )unlikely to rise as far above the distant horizon as they ought, Alan Greenspan has dangled the prospec...

Taxes and Trash

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Imagine living in a city, paying taxes, watching your neighbors' trash get collected by the city without charge, and having to pay a pri...
Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Good News, Bad News

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I'm still catching up on the tax news that arrived while I was away and shortly thereafter. When I read this news from two weeks ago, I ...
Monday, August 23, 2004

Sales Taxes, Again

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My previous posts on the proposal to restore the sales tax deduction ( here and here ) generated some interesting responses. A colleague...

They're Back

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Who's back? The students, that's who. Classes started today, and so it was time to roll out the latest addition to the teaching tool...
Friday, August 20, 2004

Killing the Geese

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The Pennsylvania legislature is sharpening its knives as it readies the killing of the goose that lays the revenue eggs. Fresh off enacting ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Deducting State Taxes, Part II

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One of this blog's regular readers, Joe Kristan, of Roth & Company, PC , posed a question to me in response to my previous posting c...
Tuesday, August 17, 2004

"Cutting Rates"?

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I just cannot resist reacting to a story heard this morning on the local news station. I don't see it on the home page of its web site ....
Monday, August 16, 2004

Oh My (Our) Poor Brain(s)

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In the last post I declined to get hyper-technical, motivated by a desire to refrain from chasing away the few readers that this blog has. ...

Deducting State Sales Taxes

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Last week's Tax Notes carried two articles addressing the current proposals to restore the federal income tax deduction for state sales...

Independence Has Its Advantages

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I cannot resist a brief comment on a story in today's Philadelphia Inquirer . Penn State University, which "acquired" the for...
Saturday, August 14, 2004

Angry? Who's Angry?

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One of my readers posted a reaction to yesterday's posting on attempts to expand the phone excise tax . Joe Kristan, of Roth & Compa...
Friday, August 13, 2004

It Will Not Die

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It will not die. The lure of "the Internet" as a source of tax revenue has been strengthening during the past several years. Despi...