Originally Posted 8/25/2012 – Additional Introduction Added 8/7/2016) Below is a post I did during the last presidential campaign explaining why I supported Mr. Romney…
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It seems to me that if estates are to be taxed, there should be some consideration for the number of heirs involved. A parent should…
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Posted in Deficits, Government, National Debt, and Taxes
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
I’m so far out of touch that I didn’t even realize sociologists had abandoned the idea of The United States as a “melting pot,” most…
Language, Culture, and Mosque Difficulties (8/16/2010)
Posted in Culture and Diversity, and Terrorism
(The difficulties have not improved since I wrote this six years ago.) I recall a conversation with my Japanese assistant during my early 1990’s Tokyo…
USA Student Loan data are not as easy to pin down as our total National Debt (~$19.3T) or the amount we owe the Social Security…
Married Filing Jointly
Posted in Culture and Diversity, and Marriage and Family
The Federal Income Tax was established in 1913 by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, but it was not until 1930 that the Supreme Court…