Category · 17 postsTaxes
All posts in the automatic “Taxes” category, newest first.
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September 20, 2025
Who am I; Who are We?
The current tendency to judge and label each other is regrettable. Labeling others often says more about the labeler than the labeled.…
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March 5, 2025
Billionaires!
We owe a lot to our billionaires! I know there is a lot of disrespect and accusations that they aren’t paying their fair share to…
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April 3, 2020
Now We Know Why!
Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
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April 10, 2019
Creation of a Monster
In the 110 years since the Sixteenth Amendment authorized the personal income tax, we have created an expensive and burdensome monster with tentacles in our…
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December 31, 2017
Happy New Year. It’s Infrastructure Time!
In the 1800’s, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, with little government oversight or involvement, spent his life building transportation and financial infrastructure that made him possibly the…
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December 11, 2017
Baloneous Job News
Media typically reported enthusiastically about “creation” of 228,000 new jobs in November of 2017. For Example: Could we have a little context? I checked the…
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August 6, 2017
Irrational Government Meddling: Stop It!
There are at least five good reasons government should not meddle in the affairs of private free enterprise.
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January 29, 2017
International Trade: The Boot is Killing Us
It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
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November 18, 2016
Unhappy? Follow Leonard Pitts’ Recommendations
I seldom agree with Leonard Pitts, but today he has a good suggestion. He is very upset about the election of Donald Trump and lists…
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November 5, 2016
To Profit or Not to Profit
The currently trendy demonization of capitalism and profits and the misperception that “non-profits” are somehow better or more virtuous than for-profit enterprises are unfortunate. Greed…
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October 10, 2016
Boosting Buffett’s Bill (Original 8/31/2011, Updated 10/10/2016)
Originally published 8/31/2011 · republished 2016
Here begins some introduction to the original post, updated now because it looks like higher marginal income tax rates are once again on the federal…
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October 1, 2016
Beer and Taxes – 10/22/2014
In April this year the US Commerce Department reported that before-tax corporate profits in 2013 totaled $2.1T and that corporate tax revenues totaled $419B. That…
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September 16, 2016
Federal, State, and Cigarette Taxes
In December 2015 The State editor Cindi Ross Scoppe published an editorial boosting the idea of a significant increase in the South Carolina tax on…
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August 6, 2016
Estate Tax Considerations and Maybe a New Idea (12/10/2010)
Originally published 12/10/2010 · republished 2016
It seems to me that if estates are to be taxed, there should be some consideration for the number of heirs involved. A parent should…
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August 4, 2016
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
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June 19, 2016
Zero Marginal Tax Rate in China?
Originally published 8/17/2011 · republished 2016
(First Published 8/17/2011) I have enjoyed a number of history, theology, Bible, literature, music, and economics courses offered by The Teaching Company over the past…
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June 19, 2016
Flat Annual Fee for the Super Rich?
Originally published 12/2/2012 · republished 2016
(Originally published 12/2/2012) We are in serious need of another hurricane threat or sex scandal or other news-dominating event to get the media folks to…
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