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The sequester cuts ended White House tours, limited national park offerings, and are now causing flight delays around the country. Some federal employees have claimed they were mandated to make budget cuts in a manner which would garner the most ...

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” ― John Marshall In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy is finally beginning to turn loose of documents that show Treasury ...

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is calling attention to the fact that the Federal government has officially become the banker for college students. Among the many line items in the two bills that make up Obamacare was the termination of ...

Hello fellow “tax man” haters.  Getting off the grid has been our goal here in the Whitten household for many years. But it seems like every time I make a move toward being self-supporting, my government makes a counter-move. But I ...

BALTIMORE, MD – Last week Joe Flacco of the NFL champion Baltimore Ravens became the highest paid player in professional football – or did he? The Super Bowl MVP and the Ravens agreed to a six-year, $120.6 million contract, earning ...

In his new book Who’s the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America, Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal shows the very rich pay more taxes in the United States than in any ...

It’s that time of year again… the time of year that ordinary, docile, American citizens either become snarling, snapping, frothing-at-the-mouth, kick-the-dog lunatics or they walk around with boxes of papers and a perpetual look of confusion on their faces, entering ...

With all of the news coverage about the fiscal cliff, it can be difficult to tell fact from fiction concerning our financial future. Here’s what you need to know. The Status Quo Unfortunately, our representatives have put us in a ...

Your pocketbook is set to get a lot leaner on January 1. While Congress and the President stay busy electioneering, a whole set of tax cuts, tax breaks, and exemptions are set to expire. Forget about tax cuts for the ...

The Common Core Standards is a federal program in which the federal government will define the curricula and the academic standards for each subject taught in the every school setting. These federal standards will basically eliminate local control of schools ...