February 15, 2015

President Obama's 'Amnesty Bonus' for Illegals

In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Eileen J. O’Connor, a tax lawyer and the former head of the tax division of the United States Department of Justice, revealed that illegal aliens may be able to receive a substantial c...

July 18, 2012

Time to Clean House at the CFTC

While most of the American media focused much of the past week on where Mitt Romney invested his money, or exactly what his role was at Bain Capital a decade and a half ago, another major financial scandal has hit the American financial markets with ...

March 1, 2012

Strangling American Capitalism with the Zuckerberg Tax

When American progressives go to bed at night, do they dream of new ways to raise taxes?  The latest tax incarnation from America's left was floated in a February 8 New York Times op-ed entitled "The Zuckerberg Tax."  Under this scheme, new...

August 1, 2011

How the Obamas (and the Guilty Left) Can Pay More Taxes

President Obama and others on the "guilty left" love to talk about all of the "Bush tax breaks" they receive but don't need -- a theme that was again prevalent in Obamas address to the nation Monday night on the debt ceiling. How can we ask a studen...

March 24, 2011

Who Will Buy the World's Government Bonds?

In the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the world's media has become fixated on the Japanese nuclear disaster in Fukushima.  On top of the massive human, material and environmental destruction, the economic reverberations that may so...

December 19, 2010

Why the Tax Compromise Won't Work

Many on the right, and particularly those who do not truly understand supply-side economics, are propagating the idea that the extension of the Bush tax cuts will bolster investment by business and will trigger a wave of economic activity, thereby he...

January 29, 2010

Mandating Higher Education Inflation

During his State of the Union speech, President Obama called for legislation that will ensure that payments on federal student loans are never more than ten percent of the borrower's discretionary income. Moreover, the president reiterated a proposal...

December 16, 2009

Federal Employees at the Trough

Last week, USA Today reported that nearly one in five federal government employees now earn over $100,000. The paper also reported the average federal salary rose to $71,260, almost $31,000 more than the comparative average private-sector wage. ...

August 14, 2009

Why Social Security Will Go Bankrupt Sooner Than People Think

On May 12, 2009, the trustees for the Social Security system released their annual report, "The 2009 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds." Follow...