Indeed, I founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity in 2000 precisely because the OECD started its “harmful tax competition” project, which threatenedlow-tax jurisdictionswith financial protectionism if they didn’t agree to help Europe’s welfare states enforce their anti-growth tax laws. For...
Serious questions are coming to light about Harris County Tax Collector Ann Harris Bennett’s job performance following a Houston Chronicle report showing the two-time elected official may not have shown up to work for years. Bennett’s office collects property taxes, processes vehicle registrations,...
The judge awarded custody to the father after a divorce attorney complained to the court Ms. Zubko-Valva was “interfering with her access to the children,” according to a pending wrongful deathlawsuitMs. Zubko-Valva filed against the county CPS. Details of CPS’ alleged complicity in the cou...
P.P.S. To be fair, the IMFrecommends tax increaseseven in the years when bailouts aren’t needed, so at least the bureaucrats have a consistent (albeitnutty) message. Share this: Posted inBailout,Big Government,Higher Taxes,International bureaucracy,International Monetary Fund,Moral Hazard,Tax ...
Consider the federal income tax, whichstarted regulate ponds on private propertyandcontrol the building of houseson dry land. Considermoney laundering laws, which began ostensibly to stop crooks from using ill-gotten gains, but now have become amulti-billion dollar burdenthat require banks tospy on...
The bill “would put us on a path toward eventually zeroing out our individual income tax,” Mr. Burgum told the House finance committee in January.“We compete for energy workers. Alaska, Texas and Wyoming are three of those eight states that already have zero income tax, and of course ...
If you want to see hypocrisy in action, there’s a very amusing video showing rich leftists being offered the opportunity to fill out this form and pay extra tax – and therefore atone for their guilt without hurting the rest of us. Needless to say, just like Abigail Disney and Bill Gat...
In this paper, we estimate the effect by using a difference-in-differences design, with detailed property-level data, that exploits changes of the conforming loan limits (CLLs) along county borders. We find a sizable effect of CLLs on government guarantees but no robust effect on homeownership....
…tax enforcement has plummeted as the IRS has been starved of resources. …More reporting would also deter would-be tax cheats… This solution is exactly what Democrats have proposed as part of their big budget bill. …banks would — once a year — also report the sums of all deposits ...
In his column for the Washington Examiner, Tim Carney explains how government school bureaucracies – including where he lives in Montgomery County, Maryland – care more about preserving the flow of tax dollars than educational success for kids. Because public schools will be offering a vastly infe...