Obamacare Taxes: Deep Impact
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama pledged often and everywhere that Americans individuals making under $200,000 individually or families making under $250,000 would… Read More
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama pledged often and everywhere that Americans individuals making under $200,000 individually or families making under $250,000 would… Read More
Today is tax day, the day when taxes are due and Americans send in their money to the federal government. These taxes go to fund… Read More
April 15th is Tax Day, the day that our tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service. As we perform this annual ritual it… Read More
For just over half of all Americans today is Tax Day. But for the other half it is just another day on the calendar. That’s… Read More
The day after the House voted to pass Obamacare, the New York Times declared “a triumph.” A few days later, President Obama told Iowa liberals… Read More
As federal income taxes come due this Thursday, Americans are well aware of just how expensive government is becoming. But as the Wall Street Journal… Read More
State government finances are in a bad way, and for an examination of why that is the case, see the latest edition of “Rich States,… Read More
The federal budget is on an unsustainable course with red ink as far as the eye can see, so it is especially important for Americans to understand spending, taxes, and debt.
The Heritage Foundation’s Budget Chart Book is a user-friendly way to learn about the federal budget in pictures.
Roberton Williams and Rosanne Altshuler’s Five Myths About Your Taxes in the Washington Post on Sunday was such a useful piece one hesitates to criticize,… Read More
In a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, Vice President Joe Biden said the following: “the top 1 percent of earners get 22 percent of all… Read More
Union bosses howled about one Obamacare tax hike: the levy on “Cadillac” health plans (expensive plans rich in benefits). The problem with this tax, as… Read More
“AT&T Inc. will take a $1 billion non-cash charge in the first quarter” the Associated Press reported today. And by “take a non-cash charge” what… Read More
Another day, two new polls showing the American people are strongly against the health care plan President Barack Obama will sign into law today. According… Read More
It takes investment to get sustainable economic growth. We can’t spend our way to growth. We have to save some of the stuff we make… Read More
The United States has set itself on a path of unsustainable debt levels with little political prospect to implement the policy mix that will turn… Read More
The Tax Foundation recently released its annual report on the number of tax returns filed that have no tax liability, and the study shows a… Read More
On March 9 the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released a preliminary analysis of the tax reform proposal contained in Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) Roadmap for… Read More
Raising taxes does not mean more overall revenue, recently seen in Montgomery County, Maryland, which has had a particularly bad fiscal year after a recent… Read More
Today marks the seventh year that we have published the Index of Dependence on Government. And, for seven years running, our Index shows growing dependence…. Read More
Littered throughout the President’s proposed budget and health care plan are over $2 trillion in new taxes. In the budget we see tax hikes on… Read More
In preparation for today’s bipartisan Health Care Summit, President Obama released his own version of health care reform earlier this week. The President’s proposal includes… Read More
President Obama keeps rolling out the tax hikes. In his budget released earlier this month, excluding the tax hikes he assumed to pay for health… Read More
The White House recently released President Obama’s health care reform proposal. The plan incorporates a mixture of the many tax increases passed by the House… Read More
The health care plan President Obama recently released is mostly a combination of the different plans passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate…. Read More
Remember the promise of the 2008 Presidential election? No family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase Well, now, the option to tax… Read More
President Barack Obama reiterated his “jobs will be our number one focus” State of the Union talking point in New Hampshire on Tuesday, but all… Read More
It is still far from clear what the White House’s new strategy to pass health care reform will be in the face of Scott Brown’s… Read More
The vote looming in the Senate to raise the debt limit should serve as a wake-up call that federal spending is out of control. Instead,… Read More
From the President who brought you unaccountable, constitutionally-questionable czars comes the latest innovation in pass-the-buck leadership: a White House executive commission designed to solve the… Read More
This month, Congress will face every shopaholic’s worst nightmare: a maxed out credit card. After a year of seemingly endless government spending, the Senate must… Read More
