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France: Is Anybody There? France’s Socialists Generate a New Class of Tax Exiles

by Jean-Philippe Delsol on December 30, 2012 · 0 comments

The fiscal frenzy that has seized French socialists is not only grinding France’s economy to a halt; it is also attacking the very foundations of French society by destroying entrepreneurship and responsibility. Taxes are raining down on French citizens, and…

Taxed for Wearing Their Heads

by Anthony Esolen on November 7, 2012 · 1 comment

The Anti-Federalists’ early fear about Congress’s taxing power–that it would result in a tax on humans’ very existence–are now realized in the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.
A new version of an ancient tax of ill repute has been visited…

Demolishing “You Didn’t Build That!”

by Anthony Esolen on August 22, 2012 · 4 comments

“You didn’t build that!” exclaimed President Obama. If you have risked all the capital you have, worked three times as many hours a week as is legal to require any employee to work, lost sleep weighing whether to spend a…

Tax Avalanche!

by Alfred A. Lagan on March 13, 2012 · 0 comments

President Obama’s proposed budget is unique in at least one respect: it calls for the largest tax increases in U.S. history. At least ten separate tax increases are included in the document, estimated by the Treasury Department to raise $1.7…

The Real Tax Rate Scandal

by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson January 30, 2012

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like obsession on class warfare, a rich American paying an effective…

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