Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
New Yorkers Leaving in Droves
The New York Post had an article recently regarding the continuous stream of New Yorkers leaving the state. An analysis found that “in 2014, 126,000 tax filers moved out of New York,” more than any other state in the nation. Also significantly, “The Empire State also...
NYU is Getting Ridiculous
I recently attended a dinner in NYC and sat next to a very nice professor from NYU. He was non-tenured, and have moved to the United States from Europe a decade ago. Because he was somewhat low-level, he felt he could not speak out any anything controversial or...
IRS Finally Issues Tea Party Status: DENIED
As we've been following this story regarding the IRS for years, here's the latest update from the Washington Times: Nearly seven years after it applied to the IRS for nonprofit status, the Albuquerque Tea Party has finally been given a decision: Denied. The tax...
Jay Cost on Obama: Disintegrating Coalitions
Jay Cost is one of my favorite writers these days, blending history and analysis in a straightforward tone. Here's his take on why Clinton lost: "Political coalitions are tricky things to manage in the United States. Ours is a country of more than 320 million people...
Trump Wins — Here’s His Tax Proposal
Over the next week or two, I'll do a more thorough analysis of portions of Trump's tax plan. Here it is in full, so that you don't have to go searching for it: DONALD J. TRUMP’S VISION Reduce taxes across-the-board, especially for working and middle-income Americans...
Trump Taxes
As a financial guy, I find that there are certain things that Trump is suggesting in his tax plan that are just flat out ridiculous. For instance, his childcare plans are ludicrous -- because we simply cannot have things that add huge complexity to the code anymore....