TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

The New York Post has the story here , but never mentions Warren Buffett, who has become richer off transportation of oil by rail because hi...

Here : The mortgage interest deduction (MID) is the largest personal tax deduction on the books and is widely considered one of the most sac...

$706.6 billion: exclusion of employer contributions for healthcare, health insurance premiums and long term care insurance premiums. $596.0 ...

Bloomberg has the story, here , naming the following so-called conservatives and right of center groups in attendance to launch a lobbying b...

Here : Thus, all spending and borrowing by the federal government are the de facto and de jure—n.b. constitutional—responsibility of the Hou...

John Boehner, you ingrate. George Bush couldn't do that even with control of the House and Senate.

So suggests JT Young, who makes a plausible, although strictly political argument, here , for why Obama might want a debt default: [T]he las...

Rich Lowry in The New York Post, here : Having done the deed, Democrats now expect Republicans to salute smartly, accept “the law of the lan...

It will deny them because ObamaCare-compliant plans will simply be too expensive for them to afford, and those will be the only ones availab...

I can't show you all of the data because the format is too long for me to capture it all in a single screen shot. All of June, all of Ju...

Maybe a guy who can't count shouldn't mess with your health insurance. One good  estimate of the cost of uncompensated hospital and...

Federal outlays from fiscal 1985 through 2012 are up 274%, from $946.3 billion in 1985 to $3,537.1 billion in 2012. Federal receipts have la...

Larry Kudlow, here : [S]peaking in Galesburg, Ill., this summer, Obama served up a convenient historical fairy tale: "In the period aft...

From the conclusion of Jeffrey Dorfman for Forbes, here : "Actions by private individuals that are not beneficial to society do not sud...

Time reports here : The delay deprives the federal government of a year of penalties that would have been paid by companies that do not meet...

THIS IS NOT NOLAN FINLEY Here : "[R]eplace the income tax with a national sales tax. You’d pay tax on the money you spend instead of th...

h/t Scott

The debt  as of 4/24/13 was $16.7943 trillion. GDP in the latest report was $16.0102 trillion. So the one divided by the other yields 1.05,...

The Washington Post has drunk the KoolAid offered up by The New Yorker that there is an enormous underground economy out there where child...

The poll tax in the north for 1873 If it takes 6.1 billion hours to comply with the tax code as reported here , for 114.7 million households...