By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
After years of secrecy, and the ongoing investigations about offshore accounts, the Swiss desire to be more transparent. Gosh, we’re so privileged. To make this cheese even more pungent, they suggest a global tax on offshore accounts.
By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
The audience behaved today. Polite applause. No outbursts.
The President told us the story of the last year and announced that Barney Frank will Captain the Congressional ship on a journey toward financial reform…and a new agency called the “Consumer Financial Protection Agency”. And this will pass this year?
By Maggie Jackson, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
I’d like to take a moment to address a topic, which as a citizen, I find increasingly irritating. It’s the absurd justification local government uses for the unauthorized increase in personal property and school taxes due to the decrease in home values.
By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel
Is homeland security profitable? It seems that former chief of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff thinks so. Tom Ridge
has a company too.
By Larry Marsh, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist
Ever since we dropped the gold standard, our money has been based on the government’s promise to pay what? Nothing.
Without taxes, our money would have no value.
By Kerry Hubbard, Midwest Voices Columnist 2009
Click here.
Today is Tax Freedom Day as calculated by the non-partisan Tax Foundation.
Check it out!
By Gary M. Galles
Professor of Economics
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA
Two years ago, the Los Angeles city council raised monthly trash fees from $11 to $28 a month, promising that every penny would go to hire more police officers. Now, they will rise to $36 under the same rationale. But that claim is bogus, as shown by a city audit which determined that two thirds of the money went for other purposes.
