Tax Tyranny

Truth in taxation means fairness by consumption levy and the downsizing the federal budget by half. Honest money and abolishing fractional reserve banking will restore the economy.

Federal tax on gas should be shelved - April 28, 2006

Axing about 18 cents from the price of gas would provide some relief for Americans struggling to afford filling their tanks. The House and Senate should repeal the billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies it gave oil companies and other nonrenewab
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Taxpayers Lose Three More Days to Big Government in 2006 - April 26, 2006

Every April, the non-partisan Tax Foundation releases a report that calculates how many days of the year Americans must work to pay local, state and federal taxes. The day when Americans will have earned enough income to pay their total tax bill for the y
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Potential tax impact at the gas pump by William Reinsch - April 24, 2006

A provision attached to the Budget Reconciliation Bill (H.R. 4297) being debated in Congress would make it harder for U.S. oil producers to compete in the global marketplace. It's not the windfall profits tax -- a large bipartisan majority in both the Hou
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The Anti-Family Tax by Terence P. Jeffrey - April 20, 2006

The additional 16.7 million people that would be subjected to the AMT this year includes some couples with two or more children and incomes as low as $67,890. But families making low six figure incomes will be especially rocked by the tax. "In tax year 20
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Your tax burden is bigger than Tax Day by John Stossel - April 19, 2006

Why should government cost us more than shelter Political scientist James L. Payne examined the record of 14 congressional appropriations hearings and found that of 1,060 witnesses who testified, only seven spoke against spending money, while more than a
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Get Serious About Tax Reform by Mallory Factor - April 18, 2006

Tax bills enacted over the past five years have reduced the tax-bite for millions of Americans, but theyve also make the tax code more mind-bogglingly complex than ever. A recent Cato Institute study found that the number of pages of federal tax rules le
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At Tax Day Rally, Conservatives Want Taxpayers to 'Get Mad and Stay Mad' by Mandy Stoltzfus - April 18, 2006

American people have consistently shown they dont want their taxes raised, said host Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. But he added that we have a less stupid government than many other people. Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foun
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It's time to scrap the tax code and save Americans $125 billion - April 17, 2006

The cost of the tax code essentially amounts to $125 billion in investment capital we do not have for the U.S. economy or for our education system (or for any other purpose you can think of). Unless Congress acts, over the next eight years, tax complexity
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The Rocky Road of American Taxation by Charles Adams - April 16, 2006

No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America. British taxation not only caused the revolution, but perhaps most important, it acted as a unifying force in the colonies. The once disor
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Income taxes should be left up to the states' discretion by Jonathan McGlumphy - April 13, 2006

The key to ending this stranglehold the federal government has over state government and citizens is to cut off its source of power. The debate should not be focused on whether or not the rich or the middle class get a cut, but whether we should have
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