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  • Fed study: Tax hikes, not spending cuts, are slowing the recovery

    By Conn Carroll | 06/07/13 03:05 PM

    Why is the Obama recovery the weakest recovery since the Great Depression? According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it is not because the federal government failed to borrow and spend too little during the height of the economic downturn. In fact, the San...

  • House chairman: Report that I have killed the Internet sales tax bill is inaccurate

    By Sean Higgins | 06/06/13 05:25 PM

    Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has issued a statement saying that contrary to some reports on the Internet, he has not ruled out taking up the Senate-passed Marketplace Fairness Act, aka the Internet sales tax bill. A local Virginia reporter quoted the lawmaker, who is chairman of the House...

  • Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Tax simplification is key to growth, fairness

    By Diana Furchtgott-Roth | 06/04/13 02:20 PM

    Our tax system does not work well. Some say it is broken. Many Americans pay no income taxes. Others pay far more than they think reasonable. Ordinary Americans are angry, particularly when tax administration and enforcement varies by taxpayer. What can be done to get out of this mess? Our...

  • Veronique de Rugy: Corporate tax encourages U.S. firms to invest elsewhere

    By Veronique de Rugy | 05/30/13 01:45 PM

    Last week, the Senate held a hearing to investigate why Apple wouldn't voluntarily turn over to the U.S. Treasury more tax revenue than the company actually owes. The freshman Republican that Kentucky voters sent to Washington in the Tea Party's smashing 2010 election told his colleagues...

  • Philip Klein: The irony behind Obamacare's hipster tax

    By Philip Klein | 05/29/13 02:35 PM

    Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling released a survey on Americans' attitudes toward hipsters -- the subculture of young, urban-creative types who characteristically don jeans, faded T-shirts and thick black-rimmed glasses, worship iPhones, and sip artisan coffee. According to the...

  • Experts: Gas tax shift means Virginia will attract thrifty drivers

    By Liz Essley | 05/28/13 08:35 PM

    New legislation to change D.C.'s gasoline tax would ensure that Virginia remains the place to go for Washington-area drivers seeking a cheap fill-up, transportation experts say. The D.C. Council gave initial approval to a change that would scrap the city's 23.5-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline...

  • Maryland's tax burden weighs down economic ranking in new report

    By Andy Brownfield | 05/27/13 04:45 PM

    Maryland's increasing tax burden is weighing down the state's economic outlook, according to an annual ranking of state business climates. The 2013 "Rich States, Poor States" report by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative policy group, saw Maryland's economic outlook...

  • Sunday Reflection: Yes, this is still America, but it's time for the Fair Tax

    By John E. Linder | 05/24/13 03:25 PM

    Last week during the House Committee on Ways and Means hearing on the IRS abuses, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, asked, "Is this still America?" Brady summarized the experience one of his constituents had with the IRS. Other than voting, she had never had any real involvement with her government....

  • Some wonder if IRS scandal began with Goolsbee remark on Koch taxes

    By Richard Pollock | 05/24/13 08:40 AM

    Treasury Department investigators completed but never released a 2011 law enforcement probe of White House economic advisor Austan Goolsbee, The Washington Examiner has learned. The investigation by the Treasury Department Inspector-General for Tax Administration was sparked by Goulsbee's...

  • Local Editorial: High taxes real cause of Maryland job losses

    By Examiner Editorial | 05/23/13 02:55 PM

    Beset by scandals in Washington, a beleaguered President Obama escaped to Baltimore last Friday for the second stop on his Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour. Joined by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, Obama visited a manufacturing plant and a school to tout his support for the middle class....


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