Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
A Very Focused Majority Opinion by Gorsuch
Gorsuch does a good job pointing out some of the logical flaws in Justice Sotomayor's dissent in the Colorado website cake. The WSJ's Notable and Quotable gives a fine excerpt, which I have included below, plus a link to the full opinion. "From Justice Neil Gorsuch’s...
The Most Brilliant Piece of Writing I’ve Seen in a Long Time
The Wall Street Journal published their "Notable & Quotable: "Thomas vs. Jackson" on July 1, 2023. Clarence Thomas takes apart fellow Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, observing that her "contrary, myopic world view based on individuals’ skin color to the total...
Maritime Unions Stifle American Economic Growth
Maritime unions have a long history of lobbying for rules and regulations, stifling innovation, and sabotaging operations, all in the name of benefiting their members. The most recent example of this is the tension between employers and the International Longshore and...
Reason: Air Traffic Control as a Public Utility
Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy over at the Reason Foundation, does as decent job laying out "the case for changing the way air traffic control is provided in the United States." He points out that many major countries have changed the way air traffic...
The Clueless IRS Commissioner Should Be Fired
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel published a letter yesterday in which he suggested that there may be racial bias in the selection of tax returns for audit. In fact, he stressed that, “while there is a need for further research, our initial findings support the...
Biden Insists on a 23% Cut In Social Security Benefits
President Biden is cutting Social Security by 23% for every single recipient across the board. This is the inevitable effect of his continued demand that there will be no entitlement reform. This should terrify absolutely everyone. Within the next 8-10 years, when the...