Consumers Should Hang Up on the Gore Phone Tax
The Conventional Wisdom circulating in Capitol cloakrooms is that Republicans should not move forward on impeachment of Bill Clinton because (a) polls show the public is nonchalant about…
Category: Taxes
Celebrating the Massacre of Tiananmen Square
President Bill Clinton’s projected trip to China later this month, and to Tiananmen Square on the ninth anniversary of the massacre of the students there, will be a…
Holy Smoke! It’s a Smokescreen for Bigger Government
Raise taxes on American workers who make little more than $250 a week, and pay billions of dollars to lawyers who make far more than $250 an hour.…
The Surplus That Politicians Want to Hide
For the fifth straight quarter, the U.S. Treasury opened up its sacks of mail and discovered an unexpected windfall of money. April’s surplus is more than three times…
Let’s Play Twenty Questions about NATO Expansion
The Senate is scheduled to vote this week on the centerpiece of Clinton’s global plans, the NATO Expansion Treaty. Because this treaty would control our foreign policy for…
Second Thoughts in the House about IMF
In a letter to his colleagues, Majority Leader Dick Armey has just identified what he calls the Clinton Doctrine as the rationale for the Administration’s demand that the…
Adios Bilingual Education!
If trend-setting California passes the English For the Children initiative on June 2, that will be good news for public school children all over the country. This initiative…
Watch out for Marriage Tax “Reform”
“The hottest tax cut in 1998” is the way some Congressmen are describing their infatuation with the notion of eliminating the so-called “marriage tax.” But taxpayers should beware…
It’s Time to Have Real Tax Cuts — February 1998
It’s Time to Have Real Tax Cuts At last somebody in government has stepped out from the crowd and said what Americans have been waiting to hear, namely,…
At Last Somebody’s Talking about Real Tax Cuts
At last somebody in government has stepped out from the crowd and said what Americans have been waiting to hear, namely, that he has a plan to cut…