The Tax-Mess Rejiggerment Act of 2018 and the Promise Made to Sell It
Taxpayers are uneasy about the end product; therefore, the bold promise (also made with the Brady-Ryan “Better Way” Plan) that the income tax will be so simplified that the average taxpayer will only...
View ArticleThe Washington Corruption that is the ‘Swamp’
Republicans say the decision to keep Obama’s guy, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, and protect Lois Learner, the IRS official at the center of the scandal over targeting Tea Party groups, demonstrates...
View ArticleWhy Income Tax Reform Is So Difficult
Ask yourself: Why can’t the income tax be made as simple and compliance easy as paying the federal motor-fuel tax? The motor-fuel tax does not require personal motorist tax returns to be filed to...
View ArticlePerson Taxation: The Root of the Income Tax Mess
Taxing all income the same opens the door to a far-reaching revolutionary reform. Under the single-rate FreedomTax, the tax will be levied, collected, and paid at the source of payment in the case of...
View ArticleDon’t Be Fooled by the “Flat-Tax” Reform Plans and their Promise of a...
The FreedomTax would have a design structure freeing most Americans from ever having to file a tax return again, not even a postcard. In most cases, the income tax would be collected at the source of...
View ArticleFinding the Road to Real Income Tax Reform
As a tax reform proposal, the FreedomTax is revolutionary. It’s more than just a proposal to clean up a tax mess. It would overturn and junk the establishment’s system of taxation, replacing that...
View ArticleIRS Gains Power to Revoke Passports for Failure to Pay Taxes
The recently passed federal highway bill, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or the FAST Act, creates a new section of the U.S. tax code, 7345, entitled, “Revocation or Denial of Passport in...
View ArticleCongress Passes Highway Bill, Continues to Divert Money Away From Roads
The Highway Trust Fund is supposed to be a dedicated fund to highways only, but with the continued diversion of road funds for non-road purposes and Congress’ penchant for raiding other parts of the...
View ArticleWhat Distinguishes the Freedom Tax from the Fair Tax?
The Fair Tax does not really abolish the IRS. BUT, the FreedomTax would achieve this goal for nearly everyone. As a simple, tax-efficient income tax providing for the at-source taxation of most...
View ArticleWould the Freedom Tax Abolish the IRS?
The IRS now requires nearly 95,000 employees and an annual operating budget of almost $13 billion to administer a taxation system having a design based upon over 77,000 pages and 5 million words of...
View ArticleThe Rand Paul Tax Plan: A Detour from the Road to Real Tax Reform
To really “start over,” the Rand Paul Tax Plan must “blow up” the universal requirement that taxpayers must file with the IRS a personal return reporting all their income and paying the tax as a...
View ArticleThe Fair Tax —“Be Careful What You Wish For”
A new agency would be created to administer and oversee the Fair Tax, the Sales Tax Bureau (“STB”). It would be vested with audit and collection powers similar to those of the IRS, as would the state...
View ArticleThe Lee-Rubio Tax Plan: Can We Find the Road to Real Tax Reform?
Even though the Plan proposes many significant changes to the income tax, these changes are not such to make the Plan a serious income-tax reform proposal. The Plan’s retention and addition of new tax...
View ArticleIs Ted Cruz the New Champion of the Flat Tax?
Cruz is wise to champion a flat tax early on in the presidential race for the White House, it may be enough to tip some undecided Republicans over to him, especially non-social conservatives who have...
View ArticleObama’s Science Czar Wants Self-driving Automobile Mandates to Further Agenda 21
Driverless cars will sacrifice freedom in place of vague sustainability. Clear evidence has emerged over the past few years that man does not cause global warming – which is why the environmentalists...
View ArticleThe IRS Tax Refund Mill for Illegals
“The IRS issues Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to undocumented aliens to improve nonresident alien compliance with tax laws. This IRS practice seems counter-productive to the...
View ArticleAmerica’s Merchant Marine in peril
The U.S. Merchant Marine fleet will be dead in ten years if the food aid lobbyists convince Congress to eliminate the cargo preference requirements which mandate that government impelled cargo be...
View ArticleIRS abuse of power and the re-election of the president
By Bruce Branick | May 20, 2013 Should anyone doubt the purpose of these recent revelations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted conservative Tea Party and patriotic grassroots groups such...
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