Don’t be economic girlie-men – Jack Kemp

Why Regulate Insider Trading?

Income inequality – Walter E. Williams

Let’s Talk Taxes – R. Glenn Hubbard

National Sales Tax Promoted as Fairer System – The underlying problem is that the terms fairness and taxes are incompatible in the minds of our leftist rulers who insist on using the tax code for their social(ist) engineering projects.

The ‘compassion’ racket – Thomas Sowell has some excellent points regarding how unfair it is to the rest of us taxpayers to continuously bail out people who choose to live in dangerous places.

Tax Cut Jujitsu

Tax cuts were just the beginning: the President is signaling a far more radical agenda.

The president takes on an entitlement – The “Third Rail” of politics, Social Security.

Creative Accounting Only Goes So Far. Unsound transactions are going to catch up with the government – As I’ve always said, none of the goofy accounting done by Enron and the other big corporations can hold a candle to the absolutely insane accounting done by our rulers in government. While much of the creative accounting done by corporations falls within the wide range of what is called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), the ways our rulers keep books pretty much defy all financial logic.

Sunsetting Tax Cuts Would Shrink Deficit, CBO Finds – Many in government are literally licking their lips waiting for the tax cuts to drop off because of the stupid way our rulers set them up as temporary. As a reminder of what those coming tax hikes are, here is the summary I posted several months ago. I think it’s obvious that if Lurch were to in some way steal the election in November, there would be no way he would sign any legislation extending the lower rates or making them permanent, as President Bush wants to do.