Economics and Taxation: Articles

Jan 28 2012

The Stealth Wealth Tax

By J. Victor Thompson | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-28-2012
The U.S. Federal Reserve recently announced that it would continue its policy of holding overnight interest rates between zero and 0.25% into 2014. It also ...
Jan 14 2012

Socialism Breeds Tyranny and Disparity

By Trevor Thomas | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-14-2012
After the fall of the Czarist government in 1917, Vladimir Lenin, founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party, returned to Russia to seize power. The ...
Jan 07 2012

Good News!

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-07-2012
Ezra Klein of The Washington Post shares the good news on jobs in the U.S. in December.  From the article (click here to ...
Dec 23 2011

Payroll Tax Cut “Compromise”

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-23-2011
In an unsurprising move, Republicans and Democrats reached a compromise that preserves the payroll tax cut for another two months. From The Chicago Tribune (...
Dec 16 2011

Welfare Scamming and Walmart

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-16-2011
Christine Rousselle from The College Conservative shares some interesting experiences from her summer work at Walmart. What she found was not pretty (click here ...
Dec 15 2011

An Incisive Free Market Response to Occupiers

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-15-2011
Daniel Hannan writes for The Telegraph about 10 things capitalists think that would surprise Occupiers.  He makes the (excellent) point that being pro-market and being ...
Dec 13 2011

More than Dollars and Cents

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-13-2011
One of the authors I most enjoyed reading in college was German economist Wilhelm Röepke.  Röepke was a firm believer in free markets, but he ...
Dec 02 2011

Good News for the Economy?

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Dec-02-2011
Some exciting news came out about the economy in November.  It was a good month, for once.  From The Washington Post (click here ...
Nov 30 2011

Republicans Oppose Cutting Taxes

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Nov-30-2011
The New York Times points out a strange role-reversal in the Republican stance on tax breaks.  Democrats are pushing to extend the payroll tax break ...
Nov 29 2011

Fiddling While Rome Burns

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Nov-29-2011
Democrats blame the recent Super Committee's deficit reduction failure on Republican obstinacy and obstructionism.  It was the GOP's refusal to raise taxes on the super ...

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