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Dems addicted to spending, eye new investor tax.

This week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) offered its solution for jumpstarting the lagging economy -- more...

By Despina Karras | 10-11-2009

New Yorkers Face New Hikes in Fees To Fill Budget Gap

With a budget gap of more than $2 billion, New York State is leaving no stone unturned to find ways to bring in more money. One...

By Matt Margolis | 08-06-2009

The Taxman Cometh, Again And Again

If you heard it once during the 2008 presidential campaign, you heard it a thousand times: Barack Obama will not raise taxes on...

By K. Daniel Glover | 07-08-2009

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Baucus' Birth Tax

The plan offered for overhauling the American health-care system by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) relies in part on revenues generated from a broad tax on FDA-regulated medical devices that Baucus predicts will generate $4 billion a year. Unfortunately for...

Published 10-08-2009 12:01 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, health care reform
STOSSEL: Transfer Machine

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with that quotation. Unfortunately, America has become a laboratory in which his...

Published 10-07-2009 12:01 AM by John Stossel

Filed under: taxes
Bootlegging Mountain Dew?

The next big payday for the statist in government around the country is a tax on sugary drinks, meaning the price of my Mountain Dew is going up. Supposedly, this will make me less likely to buy the delicious emerald nectar that fuels bloggers and MMORPG...

Published 10-05-2009 12:01 AM by Duane Lester

Filed under: taxes, health care reform, sugary drinks
Taxing Our Patience

Barack Obama revealed a curious lack of understanding of the word tax in his media blitz last Sunday, as he fought to keep his health-care overhaul alive. George Stephanopoulos of ABC News asked the President about the Baucus health-care overhaul bill...

Published 09-24-2009 10:12 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes
Seeing The Rain In The Silver Lining Of The Tea Party Movement

The Tea Party movement seemed significant to me from Day One for a variety of reasons. One, it gave voice to the disenfranchised discontent of all voters. Two, it focused the argument. People were forced to decide if they wanted a taxing big government...

Published 09-22-2009 12:01 AM by Melissa Clouthier

Filed under: taxes
BARONE: Job-Killing Policies Could Doom Democrat Hopes

"The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several...

Published 09-17-2009 9:17 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, employment, democrats
Beware the Static Analysis

When considering tax policy, analysts can choose from two basic methods to determine how policy will affect revenues and industry. The first, used by many politicians, is static analysis, which assumes that tax policy has no effect on consumer and investor...

Published 09-17-2009 8:53 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, big government, health care
BARONE: Britain and United States Go in Different Directions

Once upon a time, British and American politics seemed to operate in tandem. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to office, both supposedly little experienced and out of the mainstream, at about the same time. Tony Blair shaped his New Labor politics...

Published 07-20-2009 12:05 AM by Michael Barone

Filed under: taxes, budget, deficit, GDP, Britain
Someone Else Doesn't Pay The Freight

For fans of economic policy, this promises to be the equivalent of the Summer of Love … or Altamont, depending on our individual perspectives. Not for decades has the federal government attempted such a broad program that essentially revamps an...

Published 07-16-2009 11:56 AM by Edward Morrissey

Filed under: taxes, big government, health care
Tax Lawyers Set To Get Richer

After several weeks of attempting to read tea leaves and solve riddles pertaining to the biggest detail gap in an effort by Congressional Democrats to provide government-backed health coverage to some 47 million uninsured Americans, the public got the...

Published 07-16-2009 12:05 AM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: taxes, health care
WILL: Higher Taxes, Anyone?

WASHINGTON -- Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal now that disappointment with the results of the second stimulus is stirring talk about the need for a ... second stimulus. Elsewhere...

Published 07-12-2009 12:05 AM by George F. Will

Filed under: taxes, unemployment, stimulus, health care
Time to Phase Out Farm Subsidies

"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." -- (Thomas...

Published 07-07-2009 12:05 AM by Rick Moran

Filed under: taxes, wasteful spending
WILL: Can California Be Sold on eBay's Former Leader?

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- California's campaigns introduce candidates not only to the state's voters but to its immensity. In Bakersfield, Meg Whitman, 52, the former CEO of eBay who is campaigning for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination...

Published 07-05-2009 12:05 AM by George F. Will

Filed under: california, taxes, economic recovery
The Outrageous Costs of Cap and Trade

In an increasingly fervent effort to destroy any chance of return to the booming economies seen during the Clinton and Bush administration, the White House and congressional Democrats have their hearts set on moving on climate change legislation before...

Published 07-04-2009 12:05 AM by Michael Lewis

Filed under: taxes, wasteful spenging, energy, EPA, cap and trade
Independence Day

Tomorrow we celebrate Independence Day. It is the 233rd anniversary of our country's founding when we told the king of England that we were no longer interested in living under his oppressive thumb and decided it was time for us to create our own...

Published 07-03-2009 12:05 AM by Kim Priestap

Filed under: taxes, stimulus, big government, limited government