TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

I mean, you blow yours on fireworks, why shouldn't he?  

Frankly, most of the economic charts produced by the government do this kind of thing. Most of the time the rich use this data to tell you h...

 President Biden vowed Friday that  former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts  would lapse next year if he’s re-elected and “stay expire...

 Charlie Bilello, here . But I have problems: If a household saved 1% of their disposable income per year and earned a 10% rate of return, t...

The 13.9% growth of personal income between 2007 and 2017 is the worst since the Great Depression and is 60% off the average growth rate o...

Low top marginal tax rates have NOT delivered since 1986. The average top marginal rate has been 38% for the last thirty years, 49...

In 1913 when the average Joe made about $800 a year, the first income tax under the 16th Amendment didn't worry him because he didn...

In 1913 when the income tax began there was no such thing as the standard deduction. That didn't come along until 1944. The origin...

Here , lying through its teeth, as usual: '[Hillary] also said, “We are not Denmark.” Nope. Not by any stretch. Denmark has a slig...

The annual average of the rate is shown. Then how come the personal saving rate has been in steady decline since 1974 when IRAs were f...

Seen here : According to Statistics Norway, lower investment in the oil sector, Norway's primary growth engine, will likely slow...

John Steele Gordon provides a helpful survey of the history of American taxation, here , including the chronically avoided topic of how the ...

Real personal disposable income per capita remains in depression, over 5% lower than it was on May 1, 2008, the all-time high, when it reach...

The true horror of federal spending in America would be understood by everyone if we actually had tax equality, by which I mean if everyone ...

Here : Where this is all going to end up, I'm pretty sure -- we'll see if I'm right; won't be too long, maximum next year so...

From a story in June by the Tax Foundation,  here , on volatility in the sources of personal income. Taxed at 15%, average capital gains inc...

The most recent observation of inflation-adjusted disposable personal income per capita shows that we're still at the level reached nea...

CNBC.com has the details here : [T]he Rockefeller Institute of Government noted on Friday that overall tax collections were still 2.1 percen...

As reported here : Legendary Swiss investor Felix Zulauf believes that the current rally in risk assets is likely to last until at least the...

They don't call them levelers for nothing. Seen here , in which a single parent of three making $3,625 can end up with more disposable i...