Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
I'm a policy guy, believe it or not. I love policy. I love solving tough problems.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
The male tax?” “Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world… Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can ...
When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by ...
Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called ‘censorship.’ If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose wh...
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only p...
It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that...
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.
