Taxes & Economy

Why The Mortgage Crisis Happened

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 31, 2008

Here is a rather lengthy and detailed history of how government involvement in the mortgage and financial industries in the United States created…

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Sanford: “Don’t Bail Us Out”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 30, 2008

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives invited a number of governors and mayors to parade through the halls of Congress and beg for more taxpayer money from Washington. And then…

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The Economy: Not a Zero-Sum Game

  • October 29, 2008

Thomas Sowell has a quality read in a recent column he wrote on the damaging affect that “taxing the rich” has on the whole nation, the…

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Obama’s tax plans and small business

  • October 29, 2008

Originally posted at the Capitol Domes, a new blog from the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal. Barack Obama says he’s for raising taxes on the Fat…

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Greenspan’s “infinite monkey theorem”

  • October 24, 2008

Did the free market fail? Well, that seems to be what Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve System chairman, said yesterday to Congress. But before we follow the lead…

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Cutting corporate taxes

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 22, 2008

When critics of the US (and Pennsylvania’s) corporate tax structure – like the NCPA, Tax Foundation, and Commonwealth Foundation – point out that the US (and Pennsylvania)…

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Hugo Chavez: Bush is sociailist “comrade”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 16, 2008

Cato-at-liberty notes that Venezuelan would-be-dictator Hugo Chavez has welcomed President Bush into the socialist movement: Socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked George W. Bush as a “comrade” on…

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“The Great Depression II”

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 15, 2008

As most movie sequels are dwarfed by the original, so too does the rhetoric about the US sitting on the precipice of “another Great Depression” over-hype the current situation, and…

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The Case for Corporate Tax Cuts

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 14, 2008

The NCPA has a short primer on why the US (and Pennsylvania) should cut corporate tax rates. The US has the 2nd highest (to Japan) combined corporate tax rate. …

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