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Taxes for States in Trouble?

…a matter of faith. Tthese groups have blanketed the internet with PR pieces proselytizing for their faith. See, for example, my various critiques of the the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell’s…

The National Children’s Study

…of federal partners including: the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (including the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of…

Soc Sec XV: Why do they care?

…of the Gracchi brothers (133 BC) and the Cato Institute of today, and two the historiography is almost always charged with the class struggle of the time. The modern study…

Snow Must Go

…want to make it clear that Congress needs to pass legislation that permanently repeals the death tax, without compromise,” Snow said in prepared comments before the Edison Electric Institute Board…

Tax Executives and Intangible Valuation

…the Treasury Department for what they call the “investor model” approach to enforcing these rules. But it seems the Tax Executive Institute (TEI) is attaching this investor model, which simply…

Social Security: Cato’s “Quick Facts”

The Cato Institute has provided us with more propaganda entitled the “Quick Facts Archive”: 1. Social Security will begin running a deficit by 2017. 2. A medium income worker born…

…is a thousand-to-one longshot). And it’s not just Republican tax cuts that are to blame, there’s also Republican spending: The conservative Cato Institute noted tartly last month that Mr. Bush…

…Libertarian Cato Institute for an honest assessment: “His fiscal record is appalling — spending is out of control,” said Edward H. Crane, president of the Cato Institute, a libertarian research…