Sales taxes and shelf prices in the United States
One of the many complaints the rest of the world has with the United States, and it’s one on which I share some sentiment, is with a particular part of ou...
Category: Taxes
Charity “tax write off”
The title of this post kind of rubbed me wrong. It’s from a list article derived from a Reddit post called “What screams ‘pretending to be upp...
AOC and the left’s disdain for charity
The left’s disdain for charity is long-documented. But the most recent example is coming “from the top”, so to speak. Recently Congresswoman A...
Taxing firearms
Article: Don’t Ban Assault Weapons – Tax Them I’ve said before (here and here) that subtle racism largely fuels the calls for greater financial burd...
Tax credits do not make adoption more affordable
Several United States Senators recently introduced the “Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act”, which aims to make the entirety of a family’s ...
False charity because #fuckTrump
Amazing how the Federal “shutdown” appears to be bringing people together, right? Bringing out people who are willing to help the furloughed governm...
Dodging taxes – the “fair share” argument
[Note: this isn’t really an article, but merely a cut/paste of a comment I left to someone trying to argue that the wealthy don’t pay their “f...
Helping the poor
I’m often baffled at the amount of fake advocacy that happens online. Slactivism is what it’s largely been called. One thing that plenty of people h...
3 tax breaks to think about
A lot of people focus a lot of time and effort on giving as little money as possible to the Federal government. I can understand why, but much of this time and ...