TaxBytes

This November the residents of Berkeley, California, will vote on a first-of-its-kind tax on distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages. Instead of offering saccharine speeches and sweet promises these pro-tax, government-control activists should be honest with their constituents.

It’s time to invert the discussion about inversions: It’s about a bad tax code, not bad companies.

Why would senators want to levy a large tax increase on their own citizens when times are already tough for too many? Good question.

Burying the undead death tax would be one of the 113^th Congress’s best legacies.

Free market means opposing crony capitalism rather than defending it.

Instead of tax reform Congress seems insistent on blame, negative reinforcement and abdicating responsibility.

There is little, if any, room in the tax code for taxes conceived as a means to influence behavior. However, a conversation about using the tax code as means to control citizens does seem to correctly involve cow waste.

Given the years of handwringing and little in the way of results, one might believe the reason the middle class is under greater stress is a mystery, but in fact the reason is clear.

Citizens get it, can explain it, and understand that the failure of Congress to undertake tax reform is directly harming our country.

In a free society, capital can flee hostile policies, and today capital is fleeing to avoid America’s exorbitant business tax rates while our politicians do nothing about it.