by Jane Richey | Dec 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Fairness is a value judgment. In the fight over taxing the rich, those with good values are losing the judgment. They are losing because they have failed to name, and defend, the moral right which ought to define fairness toward all taxpayers: the right to own and to...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
And what, according to every semi-rational conception of mankind the world has ever known, is a man who has no claim on the product of his labor, on his effort, his time, or, as naturally follows, on his own life? The answer would have been self-evident to every man,...
by Jane Richey | Nov 18, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Agree to increase income tax rates for those making over $250,000; however, instead of trusting the government will actually pay down the debt with the additional money, legislate that three things: 1) The $823 billion estimated 10 year revenue is all put toward...
by Jane Richey | Nov 14, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Last week, Boehner proposed raising “revenues,” but not “rates”–the same position he took during negotiations on raising the debt ceiling in the summer of 2011. Then, Boehner had agreed on raising revenues by $800 billion–all...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Mitt Romney is acknowledging that it’s impossible to know how his tax plan will affect the federal budget deficit. In an interview Wednesday on CNBC, the former Massachusetts governor scoffed at outside groups who have said his plan to lower marginal tax rates would...