Not in Maryland where it’s just starting

Former senate candidate, Dan Bongino, discussed the “rain tax” on Fox and Friends.

One of our blessings in Maryland is that the legislature is only in session for three months. It limits the amount of damage...

The freewheeling, somewhat tax-free, internet business community consists not only of big businesses like Amazon.com, but also of innovators and small entrepreneurs who create self-employment, supplement incomes, and sometimes just have fun doing what they are doing.

Yesterday Mandy noted that the feds are about to authorize states to tax internet sales, ...

Just flashed across the screens was that the final vote on the tax portion of so-called Plan B had been cancelled tonight because John Boehner did not have enough votes.

What a mess.

You don’t go there unless you are certain you can get there.

Plan C, The Christmas Plan, is the only alternative...

It is very frustrating to watch John Boehner and House Republicans twist themselves into contortions in a futile attempt to appease Obama.

Plan B failed before it was swallowed because Obama believes that he can shift the blame to Republicans based on the arbitrary deadline for taxes to rise.  There is no...

Locked in trillion dollar tax revenue increase.

Promises, promises on spending cuts.

According to the frequently wrong but always wonkish-proclaiming Ezra Klein, this is where the Boehner-Obama negotiations are heading:

Boehner offered to let tax rates rise for income over $1 million....

I am going to keep repeating The Christmas Strategy until someone in Republican circles listens:

I say call his bluff. If a deal which tackles deficits from both revenue and spending can be reached this month, great.

If not, pass a 90 day extension of current tax rates and whatever else is needed...

From DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ, What Does Let It Burn Mean? (h/t Hot Air), :

As one of the first, if not the first, people to say Let...

Peter Ferrara at Forbes, Why America Is Going To Miss The Bush Tax Cuts, examines the propaganda perpetrated for a decade by the media and Democrats about the Bush tax cuts:

Because so many major media institutions, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, have been so duplicitous and dishonest in...

When I read this line in Kurt Schlichter’s excellent post, A Lawyer’s Tips on Negotiating for Dummies and Congressional Republicans, I had to laugh:

Sound a bit, well, crazy? Unreasonable? Even scary? Good, because a skilled lawyer understands...

I don’t think anyone doubts that Obama has superior bargaining power on the “fiscal cliff.”

Part of that power comes from a superior messaging machine which bizarrely has convinced the public that Republicans are holding “middle class” (including people making low six figures) “tax cuts” (which are not tax cuts, but a...

Taxes are going up you ungrateful kulaks.

Top Marginal Tax Rate Will Exceed 50% in California, New York, and Hawaii in 2013 (h/t Instapundit):

This paper compares state-by-state estimates of the top marginal effective tax rates (METRs) on wages, interest, dividends, capital gains, and business income for tax year 2012 to the rates scheduled for...

What does this solve? Via ABC News:

Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse entirely. It’s quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts (the bill passed in August by the Senate) and offer the President nothing more: no...

Depending on who you ask, and at what moment in time, the “fiscal cliff” either is End Times, or not.

Obama is in campaign mode, as usual, that bizarre never-never-land where negotiating means running to rallies.

Given Obama’s permanent campaign, and the lack of seriousness in his proposals, a growing chorus on the...

Democrats say they want fairness.

One idea is to force residents of blue states to pay their fair share by capping or eliminating federal deductions for property taxes and state income taxes.

But if we must appease the Democrats’ demand for higher revenue, we also should target the activist institutions which currently enjoy tax exempt status but which...

I have written several times about the implicit marginal rate which makes it economically irrational for a  poor or lower-middle class wage earner to make more money because of the loss of government benefits the higher income incurs.

Back in November 2009, I saw the government benefits trap as a key political...