News
NY Times | $16 Muffins, and Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab
The report scrutinized spending at a sampling of conferences from October 2007 to September 2009, focusing on eye-popping calculations of food and beverage expenses.
Econ Comments
Washington Times | LAMBRO: Obama digs up dead tax hikes
Unearthing the blame-the-rich shibboleth is useless economic strategy.
Blogs
Political Calculations | The Biggest Driver of U.S. Government Revenue
...a simple power law relationship exists between the amount of median household income in the United States and the total amount of money that the federal government collects each year
Cato@Liberty | Tax the Rich? Depends On How You Define Rich
As the myriad of media polls have made clear, Americans are typically averse to tax increases except if offered the option to tax the “wealthy.”
Heritage Foundation | Obama’s Attack on Big Oil: Fair Share or Targeted Tax Hike?
If Congress opened access and placed a freeze on environmental regulations and the Administration moved to effectively permit new projects, the federal government would collect more than $36 billion as soon as 2015 and more than $800 billion by 2030, according to a study from Wood Mackenzie.
