Listen to Venus Williams Advice on Taxes

Basically, the tax system is designed to punish success. Work harder than the next guy, innovate, invest wisely, or get lucky–and the government will put the squeeze on you. Almost every argument made by liberals against tax cuts, it seems, comes down to a...

Tax Competition: Harmful to Whom?

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based institution with 29 member nations from the industrialized world, has launched a project seeking the elimination of “harmful tax competition.”In a report titled “Towards...

How the Greenspan Stole Christmas

A cloud is hanging over this year’s Christmas season: the cloud of recession. You can see it in weak Christmas shopping sales and the desperate deals being offered by car makers. You can see it in the words of a shopper interviewed on television, who explained...

Santa Claus: The Anti-Christ

Santa Claus is also a symbol of good will, and thus is the appropriate holiday symbol of America, a country that, because of its material prosperity, can inspire good will in all of its citizens.”