04/05/2008 14:00:00
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan for curing ailing financial markets received poor grades privately from House Republican leaders, though they mostly refrained from public criticism that would give Democrats ammunition in an election year. 04/05/2008 13:00:00
The Consumer Price Index is not the same as the Living Expenditures Index. 04/03/2008 14:00:00
Last week, a mob of screeching protesters invaded the Bear Stearns headquarters in Manhattan demanding more aid for homeowners. 04/01/2008 14:00:00
There was a real irony in the recent intervention by the Federal Reserve System to provide the money that enabled the firm of JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns before it went bankrupt. 04/01/2008 13:00:00
By staking its business model on lobbying radical feminist social policies such as VAWA, which have been proven ineffective and fraud-ridden, Avon (AVP) is misusing equity investments and hurting its business. This piece proves domestic violence policy is dead wrong. 03/04/2008 14:00:00
2001What: H.R. 1836, The “Economic Growth And Tax Relief Reconciliation Act Of 2001” When: Signed into law June 7, 2001Effects: Cut marginal income tax rates, created a new 10% bracket, provided marriage penalty relief, put death tax on path to extinction, repealed 02/24/2008 11:00:00
The FairTax grassroots movement continues to grow while more congressional legislators sponsor and support the FairTax bill. 02/04/2008 14:00:00
The current Republican and Democratic economic stimulus plan is the latest version of a much tried and repeatedly untrue liberal-progressive panacea. 01/30/2008 14:00:00
Who says bipartisanship is dead? From President Bush to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, to Mitt Romney and John McCain, virtually everyone in Washington agrees: The government must Do Something to stop home foreclosures across the country. 01/19/2008 14:00:00
We're heading back to the disaster of President Nixon's Keynesian economics of price controls, rampant deficit spending, and punishing inflation. 01/18/2008 14:00:00
Liberals propose to follow the same game plan that gave us stagflation in the 1970s. 01/08/2008 13:00:00
It's time for a civil debate on tax reform. 01/06/2008 13:00:00
A relatively new phenomenon is cross-border investments by one country in transition in another's economy and enterprises. At four percent of Slovene FDI stock, the Czech Republic has invested in Slovenia as much as the United States, or the United Kingdom. 12/30/2007 13:00:00
Will the elderly be harmed by the passage of the Fair Tax? 12/14/2007 14:00:00
When oil and gas prices are high, hurting consumers and the economy, what does the Democratic leadership in Congress want to do? Raise taxes on oil and gas companies, of course. Nothing could be more logical than to increase the amount of money the Federal Government 11/29/2007 14:00:00
Since I was a young boy I have heard that “Republicans are the party of the rich.” My parents were among the few Republicans in a precinct dominated by Democrats and this allegation made my father angry. He fired a boiler at a Catholic hospital and was lower middle class. 11/27/2007 14:00:00
People who are in the top one percent in income receive far more than one percent of the attention in the media. Even aside from miscellaneous celebrity bimbos, the top one percent attract all sorts of hand-wringing and finger-pointing. 11/19/2007 14:00:00
I would not be surprised if you have heard at least five times in different media that the tax revolt in this country is over. In fact, in the past twenty years this is at least the tenth burial of the tax revolt. But I have news for the liberals and the media who promotes their 11/16/2007 14:00:00
Wal-Mart needs to appreciate an observation made by Napoleon “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” At the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Summit, Wal-Mart announced the company was forming a partnership 11/07/2007 14:00:00
Politicians say the oddest things. Recently, Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley called a special legislative session. He wants lawmakers to raise taxes to close an expected budget shortfall. Among the taxes he hopes to increase are the sales tax, the corporate 11/01/2007 14:00:00
When displaced American workers complain about outsourcing U.S. manufacturing jobs to take advantage of cheap Chinese factory labor, and about insourcing low-paid Asians on H-1B visas to take engineering and computer jobs, the globalists and multinational corporations have a ready answer. They recite 10/30/2007 12:00:00
I got a summary of earned credits from the social security administration. 10/23/2007 13:00:00
Bonds in general aren't that interesting when the prices of shares grow exponentially. 10/17/2007 13:52:59
When you decentralize government with a consumption tax, the citizenry will dictate the terms of their engagement in civil government, and the Blessings of Gods people will then overpower the failures of human reasoning and self-government will rule with Christ as King. 10/04/2007 14:00:00
America's leading Internet service providers (ISPs) have spent many years and billions of dollars upgrading their transcontinental networks, which constitute the backbone of the Internet. Now they are eager to profit by offering new, compelling services. One plan is to give certain websites high 10/04/2007 14:00:00
Did you know that nearly half (49%) of the half-a-million households in Idaho own at least one mutual fund? That is approximately $35 billion in mutual fund assets for those households. If you are in one of these households, you already know that current law requires you to pay annual capital 09/05/2007 14:00:00
Nearly every taxpayer understands on a gut level the dysfunction of the income tax system. American taxpayers are reminded, after all, every April 15th of just how indecipherable the tax code has become and how difficult and expensive it has become to obey the 09/03/2007 13:31:35
As awareness of human rights increased, as their definition expanded and as new, often authoritarian polities, resorted to torture and repression - human rights advocates and non-governmental organizations proliferated. 08/25/2007 13:14:03
That the assets of suspects in grave crimes and corruption should be frozen or "disrupted" until they are convicted or exonerated by the courts - having exhausted their appeals - is understandable and in accordance with the Vienna Convention.
08/14/2007 14:00:00
Two recent tragedies -- in Minnesota and in Utah -- have held the nation's attention. The implications of these tragedies also deserve attention. Those politicians who are always itching to raise tax rates have seized upon the neglected infrastructure of the country as another reason
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