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September 2, 2008
Obamanomics: Wrong at the Margin
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama doesn’t just pledge to raise taxes; he proposes to raise the most economically damaging marginal tax rates of every major federal tax:
Obamanomics would:
Raise individual income taxes, increasing the top two income tax rates, with the top rate climbing by 13 percent, to almost 40 percent.
August 28, 2008
Telepresence:
Going to meetings, to class, or engaging customers in person has gotten much more expensive—to the tune of $4.
August 26, 2008
The Tank is on Empty
This can’t be good!
The Detroit Free Press reported August 5 that the country’s top three automakers are looking for a bailout from Washington.
August 21, 2008
Start Spreading the News—I’m Leaving Today
Those famous lyrics from “New York, New York” just might have to be changed, at least for online retailers.
August 19, 2008
More Transparency We Can Believe In
Jim Frogue, the state project director for Newt Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation, has proposed an idea that worth’s considering.
August 14, 2008
CBD-Expansion Effort, RIP (We Hope)
The apparent collapse of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of trade talks is indefensible.
August 12, 2008
Transparency We Can Believe In
Finally—a trend that works for us taxpayers instead of against us! Government is giving us a close, careful and woefully overdue look at what happens with our tax dollars.
August 5, 2008
Stimulation Simulation
How does that old saying go? Those who refuse to learn from history are bound to .
July 25, 2008
New York: Double Dealing on Retail Taxes
Amazon.com and Overstock.com are suing New York to keep their customers (and themselves) free of New York State sales tax. While tax collectors have shown great imagination in finding new ways to milk the Internet for new revenues, New York is one of few states trying to impose sales tax directly on online purchases.


