Taxing The Rich: A Fiscal Castle of Sand

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  May 28th at 09:50 PM  | 

The Wall Street Journal looks at the severe falloff in tax revenues from millionaires in Maryland after the state socked them with a new, higher tax rate for the purpose of closing a budget gap, a move hailed at the time by supposedly big-thinking liberals. Somehow, Maryland liberals were surprised that this didn’t work out: One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. | Read More »

McCain’s Website Needs An Obama Tax Hike Calculator!

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 19th at 04:04 PM  | 

So I spent a little time noodling around the McCain campaign website, and maybe this is buried deep in the site somewhere and I missed it, but shouldn’t the site have a place where you can calculate, even roughly, how much Obama’s tax hike plans will cost you? Certainly taxes is a huge issue, being a hardy GOP perennial, an issue on which Obama has | Read More »