us tax laws

With the recent "Teabag"' silliness and the usual partisan screaming back and forth about the poltics and morality of taxation, I feel the need to ask the following: What rate of taxation is "fair?" When does taxation become oppressive and authoritarian? Please note, I don't really have a...

Tell you what folks, let's go back to talking about the big problems. :D http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123871911466984927.html Any Obama supporters want to defend the indefensible? :D

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D979POSG0&show_article=1 Taxes on an addictive substance. Shame on you, Obama.

So I'm curious if anyone understands any of the case law around earmarks and how it is understood that they are constitutional under the constraints placed by the US constitution. I have two issues: (1) The taxing and spending clause allows spending for the general welfare. It seems aimed...

It turns out that Joe the Plumber isn't a licensed plumber and his first name isn't Joe, it's Sam. Interestingly enough, his last name is misspelled on his voter registration card, so hopefully he will be one of the voters purged from the Ohio voter rolls. Even more ironically, “Joe”...

Is it possible that there would be a tax advantage to getting legally separated in order to avoid paying a possible tax hike on household income above the $ 250K range? With all the talk about Barak O’Bama winning, it seems likely that the government will raise taxes on household incomes above...

Payroll tax on incomes above $250,000 "The payroll tax is now applied to all income up to $102,000 a year, which covers the entire amount for most Americans. Under Obama's plan, the tax would not apply to incomes between that amount and $250,000. But all annual income above the...