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Transcripts of First Organizional Meeting of the Unfair Campaign against Racism Chairman of the Board: The goal of our organization is to get people to speak more honestly about race in America; to encourage an honest dialogue and understanding between the races. Major Funder:  Great! I move that we encourage people to talk honestly about race by placing dozens of [...]

Here we go again. The indefatigable David Cay Johnston has twisted the results of a study that says that America, with it’s low tax rates, has the lowest rate of tax evasion in the civilized world into one that says America, because of it’s low tax rates, has the most tax evasion in the civilized world. Here’s Johnston’s [...]

“Go to your bosom; knock there and request your heart what it doth know that is like my brother’s fault.” – Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene ii – Congressman James Clyburn was asked by MSNBC’s non-partisan Newt-hater, Mika Brzezinski, what he thought of Gingrich’s recent surge in the Republican polls. Clyburn said, with a [...]

Here’s Megan McArdle of The Atlantic on income inequality: I don’t care about income inequality. I care about the absolute condition of the poor–whether they are hungry, cold, and sick. But I do not care about the gap between their incomes, and those of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Nor the ratio of Gates and Buffett’s incomes to [...]

Daniel J. Mitchell writes in Helping to Explain Greece’s Collapse in a Single Picture: Politicians in Europe have spent decades creating a fiscal crisis by violating Mitchell’s Golden Rule and letting government grow faster than the private sector. As a result, government is far too big today, and nations such as Greece are in the process [...]

The inmates are indeed running the asylum. Law schools have been under attack lately by students who believe that a law degree entitles them to a six figure salary upon graduation, but now we know the real reason why today’s law brats can’t find employment. Paul Caron writes in Prof Denied Tenure for Using Socratic Method:  Some [...]

I’ve heard of fear-mongering before but this latest example from Vice President Joe Biden takes the proverbial cake: If the Republicans don’t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise. Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue to rise; all crime will continue to rise. This is despicable and cheap. Think about it. Any congressman could propose [...]

David Logan of Tax Policy Blog has another reality check for the 99 percenters occupying Wall Street: An Overlooked Two-Year Trend: Incomes of the Top 1 Percent Decline While Effective Rates Increase It’s true.  In 2008 and 2009, the average taxpayer in the top 1 percent made less money than they did in the prior [...]

Our left-wing tax blogger friends James Maule and Linda Beale avidly support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together, Maule and Beale have written dozens of posts about out how middle-class conservatives – tea partiers, in particular – have been victimized by right-wing lies about taxes. Well, the folks at Daily Intel have polled 50 Occupy [...]

Several months ago vice squads in West Palm Beach, Florida began the practice of giving local beat reporters the names and mugshots of men who had been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. I believed then, and still do, that in a country that declares a man to be innocent until proven guilty, the practice is illegal.¹ The reporters, of course, maintain that they have [...]

The irony is richer than Warren Buffett’s secretary. Reuters reports that the Occupy Wall Street mob, after two short weeks of relatively peaceful occupying, has gone violent in a global day of rage (emphasis is mine): Hundreds of hooded, masked protesters rampaged through Rome in some of the worst violence in the Italian capital for years Saturday, [...]

Stephen Hayes just made a brilliant observation about the disconnect between President Obama’s support of the Wall Street occupiers and his defense of his administration’s decision to invest in Solyndra: The President says the Wall Street protesters are rightfully upset at Wall Street for taking unreasonable risks with their money yet he defends his own administration’s unreasonable [...]

If President Obama were like George Washington and could not tell a lie, this is what he would say to the American taxpayer: Yes, we are going to increase your taxes, but don’t worry. If we waste those funds, we’ll just increase your taxes again. An entity that can raise its “prices” without consequence (i.e. without the loss of “business” [...]

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As readers of this blog know, I am a frequent reader of Linda Beale’s tax blog ataxingmatter. I recently left a comment on one of her posts objecting to the left’s demonization of conservatives as either stupid or malicious and said the following: Conservatives have a good faith belief that less government regulation, lower taxes [...]

And I was just starting to like Herman Cain. Cain has jumped on the race-hustling bandwagon and accused Rick Perry of racism simply because Perry didn’t remove an offensive sign on one of his properties fast enough. “The name of the place was called Niggerhead,” Cain said on ABC’s This Week. “That is very insensitive.” When it was pointed [...]

E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post is a Rhodes Scholar and an intelligent guy, but listen to the simplistic drivel he wrote about conservative criticism of Warren “tax-me-more” Buffett: Maybe only a really, really rich guy can credibly make the case for why the wealthy should be asked to pay more in taxes. You can’t accuse a [...]

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet the Prince of Denmark overhears his uncle, King Claudius, pray for forgiveness for the murder of his brother, Hamlet’s father: O, what form of prayer can serve my turn? ‘Forgive me my foul murder’?  That cannot be;  Since I am still possess’d of those effects for which I did the murder; My crown, mine own [...]

Here we go again. Walter Olson wrote the following post for Cato: As Pat Kossan reports in the Arizona Republic, the state of Arizona has averted a threatened civil-rights lawsuit from Washington by agreeing to stop monitoring teachers’ English fluency and pronunciation in the classroom. “In November, federal officials told Arizona that its fluency monitoring [...]

President Obama and the Democrats are calling for higher taxes on the rich on the grounds that the rich are not paying their fair share and are not willing to share in the sacrifice it takes to reduce the deficit and get Americans working again. But politically is this the best way to frame the argument? I don’t think so. Mr. Obama’s [...]