Monday, April 05, 2010

It Brings Us Tax Policy and Earns a 24% Approval Rating

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The Washington Post ran another of its polls last week . Question 4 asked, “Do you approve or disapprove of the way the U.S. Congress is doi...
Friday, April 02, 2010

Tax, Hypocrisy, and Tea Parties

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There’s just something about hypocrisy that disgusts me. That’s a problem I’ve had all my life. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

More Challenges of IRS Health Care Oversight

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It seems I’m not the only one wondering how the IRS is going to administer the additional responsibilities foisted on it under the health ca...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Tax Lessons from New Jersey

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The ongoing battle in New Jersey with respect to taxes and state spending is heating up, providing lessons in tax policy not only for studen...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Health Care: Enlarging the Code and Stressing the IRS

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Earlier this week, in IRS Ought Not Be the Health Care Enforcement Administrator , I criticized the Congress for dumping onto the IRS the r...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Tax and Spending Decisions Run Amok

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An interesting newspaper article from a few weeks ago, Ticking time bomb: Crisis looms in Pa.’s dwindling pension plans , provides a lesson ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

IRS Ought Not Be the Health Care Enforcement Administrator

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Congressman Charles Boustany, ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, questioned the wisdom of the provi...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Picking a Tax Not So Easy

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Earlier this week, in The Tax Price of a Flawed Tax System , I commented on the a report that at least one member of Philadelphia’s City Cou...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tying Tax Revenue to Voter Responsibility

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In November of last year, in New Jersey to Follow in California’s Tax Footsteps? , I asked how the governor-elect of New Jersey, who prevai...
Monday, March 15, 2010

The Tax Price of a Flawed Tax System

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As expected, the proposed Philadelphia “soda tax,” about which I commented in Yes for The Proposed User Fee, No for the Proposed Tax , has r...
Friday, March 12, 2010

The Estate Tax “Poker Game”

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Jonathan Salant has written an article for Bloomberg, Business Lobbyists Push to Revive Estate Tax They Tried to Kill , that should be requi...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Perniciousness of the Anti-Tax Crowd

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Peter Pappas, of the Tax Lawyer’s Blog , expresses concern, in Opposition to Increased Taxes is Not Opposition to All Taxes about the ram...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Implementing Trash Collection User Fees

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On Friday, in Yes for The Proposed User Fee, No for the Proposed Tax , I commented on the proposed trash collection user fee set forth in th...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Yes for The Proposed User Fee, No for the Proposed Tax

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According to this Philadelphia Inquirer story , the mayor of Philadelphia, reluctant to cut any more essential services and squeezed by decl...