Liberals, Conservatives and Tax Fairness
In defending President Obama’s effort to make as the centerpiece of his campaign the so-called Buffett Rule — which would require anyone earning at least $1 million a year to pay at least 30 percent of...
View ArticleIncome Inequality and the Buffett Rule
In his post this morning on Liberals, Conservatives, and Tax Fairness, Peter Wehner writes, Liberals are correct about this: income inequality has increased over recent decades. The task of...
View ArticleThe President’s Intellectual Exhaustion
Everyone from President Obama to Jason Furman, the principal deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, to the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to Politico’s Jim VandeHei, agree that...
View ArticleThe Buffett Rule and Tax Fairness
The so-called Buffett Rule will come up for a vote in the Senate today and will almost certainly fail. And that’s a good thing because the Buffett Rule is not tax policy, it is demagogy. President...
View ArticleObama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies
Many of President Obama’s fervent devotees are young enough not to have much memory of the political world before the arrival of The One. Coincidentally, Obama himself feels the same way—and the White...
View ArticleBack Taxes and Buffett Rules
Remember the Buffett Rule, which was supposed to usher in an age of tax fairness and solve our debt crisis? (And by that, I mean cover .23 percent of our annual deficit while providing enough loopholes...
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