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British Conservatives are considering reducing corporate tax rates. No doubt this would be a good thing for the Brits, but I suspect it would also be a good thing here in the U.S., if only because it would increase the pressure from international competition to lower corporate tax rates.
Here’s what FW Chaiman Dick Armey wrote […]

Shorter Ruth Marcus:

What America really needs is higher taxes. In fact, it would be totally awesome campaign strategy for a Republican to just say, “Yeah, higher taxes! We need ‘em!” Because clearly, GOP voters eat that sort of thing up.

Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski says in an interview that he supports the flat tax, but that Poland will wait until after 2009 to implement it.
The Minister told the newspaper that he is in favour of the introduction of a flat tax, but no sooner than when this is safe for the budget and for […]

Dan Mitchell discusses the current tax code and offers solutions for fundamental tax reform.

Some tax-day appropriate words from John McCain’s speech today:
Many in Congress think Americans are under-taxed. They speak as if letting you keep your own earnings were an act of charity, and now they have decided you’ve had enough. By allowing many of the current low tax rates to expire, they would impose — overnight — […]

I’ll refrain from posting my own tax rant (believe me, it’s better for both of us).  But Megan McArdle’s rant warrants posting, and is especially close to my heart because I, too, made a mid year move (and, as with McArdle, it was from New York, which has even more insanely complicated tax-filing procedures — […]

We recently set up AngryRenter.com, complete with a petition for renters and responsible homeowners to sign opposing a federal mortgage bailout. As I mentioned in the last post, opposition to a bailout is pretty high, as many view it (rightly, I think) as a taxpayer funded lottery payout for folks who gambled on property values. […]

The editors at NRO point out that, although John McCain seems to have stated opposition to anything that resembles a mortgage bailout (in my view, correctly), it increasingly appears that he wants to effect a plan that is, well, a bailout.
[W]hat McCain said last week is disturbing. He proposed something he calls the HOME plan, […]

On tax day, everyone’s a fiscal conservative.  Not only are taxes too high, but the process by which we pay them is far, far too complex — as anyone who’s ever filed more than the most basic return will tell you.
Here’s FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey writing on tax code complexity last year:
Americans sent a […]

Tell me again: Why is the federal government bailing out banks and irresponsible borrowers?

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