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Day: January 7, 2010

  • George Rebane Paid tax preparers will now have to get certified by the IRS and keep their skills updated with continuing education.  This is yet another layer of government ‘protection’ for the consumer that is designed to raise costs, limit competition, and stifle innovation. This latest encroachment was announced by IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman who…

  • George Rebane The coming explosion of entitlements is one of the publicized drivers of socialized medicine and its current embodiment as Obamacare.  The nearby chart from the Heritage Foundation plotting CBO data tells part of the story.  Historical tax revenues for the feds have been close to the underside of 20% of GDP.  If you…