Tag: Taxes

Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

Fred Barnes · August 11, 2014 4:00 am

Medicare is fast becoming unsustainable, especially as baby boomers like me enter the system. We may be living longer and healthier lives, but it's costing taxpayers more than we can afford unless something changes. (iStock Photo)

Solution for the looming Medicare crisis

Linda Chavez · August 8, 2014 2:53 pm

Jonathan Alter at The Daily Beast has an idea that will infuse the president's "economic patriotism" rhetoric with some bite: Compel companies to take "loyalty oaths" to prove their patriotism. (iStock Photo)

Have you taken your Obama oath?

David Harsanyi · August 8, 2014 2:39 pm

Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., participates in a news conference at the U.S. Capitol July 10, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Dick Durbin to Walgreens: You didn’t build that

Timothy P. Carney · August 7, 2014 9:53 pm

According to usdebtclock.org, which continually tracks such things, the total federal unfunded liability as this edition of the Morning Examiner is written is more than $118 trillion. That's more than $1 million for every taxpayer. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

If the government doesn’t know how much it spends or how much it owes, how can it know anything?

Mark Tapscott · August 7, 2014 1:07 pm

President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference at the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama reviewing options on corporate tax loophole

Darlene Superville · August 7, 2014 12:26 am

Regulator seeks tough penalty for tax evasion case

Regulator seeks tough penalty for tax evasion case

Larry Neumeister · August 6, 2014 9:35 pm

In this Wednesday, May 14, 2014 photo, a customer walks toward an entrance to a Walgreens store, in Boston. Walgreen plans to keep its roots firmly planted in the United States, saying Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 it will no longer pursue an overseas reorganization that would have trimmed the amount of U.S. taxes it pays. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Walgreen turns down inversion to cut tax bill

Tom Murphy · August 6, 2014 8:05 pm

President Barack Obama participates in a discussion with Takunda Ralph Michael Chingonzo of Zimbabwe, co-founder of a start-up working to bring free Internet access to the public, at the US Africa Business Forum during the US Africa Leaders Summit, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. African heads of state are gathering in Washington for an unprecedented summit to promote business development. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama seeks executive ways to limit tax inversions

Josh Lederman · August 5, 2014 11:11 pm

Vehicles move along a section of Interstate 70 in Foristell, Mo. Missouri voters will decide on Aug. 5 whether to allow the state's first general sales tax for transportation projects, such as the proposed widening of I-70 to three lanes from St. Louis to Kansas City. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Transportation tax tops Missouri primary ballot

David Lieb · August 5, 2014 1:40 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks at the Center for New Security's Eight Annual National Security Conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Paul Ryan isn’t seeking to relaunch LBJ’s war on poverty: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 4:02 am

The philosophical battle continues between those who think government does a better job of spending other people's money (surely a discredited notion given the record of government misspending) and money earners who believe smaller government is better for both government and the governed.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

People, not politicians, improve world economies

Cal Thomas · August 4, 2014 9:18 pm