Paul M. Jones | Taxes 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 Most Federal Housing Subsidies Do *Not* Fund The Poor 2014-08-11T21:03:39-05:00 The bulk of homeownership expenditures go to the top fifth of households by income, who typically could afford to purchase a home without subsidies.  According to estimates by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, more than three-fourths ... Abolish The IRS And Replace With A Consumption Tax (Not VAT) 2014-08-04T13:52:05-05:00 Neither the income tax nor its oppressive bureaucratic collector can be fixed. It cannot be reformed. It must be thrown into history’s dust heap of failed legislative experiments and replaced with the Fair Tax Act of 2013, or HR 25/S 122. The Fa... IRS Training with Assault Rifles 2013-06-13T11:20:18-05:00 A bureaucracy is bad. A politicized bureaucracy is worse. A paramilitary politicized bureaucracy is nuts. And, in fact, evil. There is no reason in a civilized society why the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Paperwork should have his own SEAL Team S... "I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy." 2013-06-04T17:08:38-05:00 "I’m a born free American woman, wife, mother and citizen. And I’m telling my government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your responsibility to look out for my well-being, and to monitor my speech. It’s not your ri... Remember, The IRS Targeted The Tea Party, Not Establishment Republicans 2013-05-23T09:44:39-05:00 The unspoken 600-pound gorilla in the room is that the IRS did not go after Republican Party groups. There has been some noise made in that direction, but it is just that--noise. The real IRS vendetta was aimed at the Tea Party movement and not at th... If We Had No IRS, We'd Have No Scandal 2013-05-21T12:02:07-05:00 The dismal performance of the IRS is but a symptom of a much larger disease which has taken root in the charters of many of the major administrative agencies in the United States today: the permit power. Private individuals are not allowed to engage ... Facebook Gets a Multibillion-Dollar Tax Break 2013-02-16T10:58:35-06:00 It's bad for Big Business to get tax breaks, right? It hasn’t drawn much attention, but Facebook’s first annual earnings report contains an accounting gem: a multibillion-dollar tax deduction for the cost of executive stock options and sha... Loyalty Programs, Soft Monopolies, and Taxpayers 2013-01-08T13:01:42-06:00 Most analysts had thought that American's frequent flier program became moot as soon as Delta and the other airlines copied it. But in fact, the authors argue, the effect of such programs is that customers are less likely to switch from their prefer... Too Much Wishful Thinking on Middle-Class Tax Rates 2012-12-31T12:37:41-06:00 When President Obama talks about taxing the rich, he means the top 2 percent of Americans. John A. Boehner, the House speaker, talks about an even thinner slice. But the current and future fiscal imbalances are too large to exempt 98 percent or more ... Why not let taxes rise on the middle class? 2012-12-29T18:08:52-06:00 How can we expect people to care about the growth of government if it doesn’t cost them anything? Instead of paying for the current miasma of spending, we’ve been borrowing the money from our children and grandchildren. The national debt ha...