Print Capitol Confidential Read Full Bio Katy Perry Teams Up With Anti-Taxers to Fight Big Government A coalition of 125 celebrity musicians, including pop singer Katy Perry, have joined forces with anti-tax advocates including Grover Norquist and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) to oppose an intellectual property "reform" bill that critics charge expands government to the detriment of the free market. 28 Nov 2012 USA Today: Green Building Program a Burden on Taxpayers A USA Today examination of the popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program revealed the system's vaulted green standards have negligible impact on a building's environmental footprint while often making staggering tax breaks available to developers. 18 Nov 2012 Google Goes to Bat for Net Neutrality, Again The Google filing disputes both arguments and seeks to buttress the FCC's case in favor of net neutrality, which free market technology experts have criticized as pushing the Internet to be treated as more of a "commons" or "utility," and as risking diminishing quality of service and limiting the incentives for investment in broadband technology. 17 Nov 2012 WHO Boots Media from Controversial Tobacco Meeting The World Health Organization (WHO) has shut the media out of a key meeting focused on global tobacco policies, according to information published in yesterday's Chattanooga Free-Press. 15 Nov 2012 Illinois County's Cigarette Tax Hike Unlikely to Deliver If smokers in Cook County quit, or move to buy more illicit, untaxed cigarettes, that will likely blow a hole in the county's revenue projections tied to the increase, while also reducing the amount of revenue Illinois and Chicago derive from their own cigarette taxes -- a tricky situation for all three jurisdictions to manage. 13 Nov 2012 IRS and Treasury Investigate Obama's SolarCity News that SolarCity, another recipient of millions in government largess from the Obama Administration, would be issuing an IPO, forced the disclosure that the IRS and the Treasury Department were now investigating the company, and others, for potential abuse of taxpayer funds. 13 Nov 2012 Global Tobacco Tax Could Be in the Cards This Week Could a global tobacco tax be on the cards if tobacco tax proponents get their way at a key international organization's meeting this week? Anti-tax advocates fear that the answer to that question may be "yes" as a conference of government representatives of 176 countries gets underway in Seoul, South Korea. 13 Nov 2012 IL County Board Gives Initial Approval to Tax Hike On Friday, the Cook County, Illinois, County Board gave its initial approval to at least one big tax hike included in the annual budget proposed by County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. 4 Nov 2012 Explosive CDC Omission: Norovirus Spread Through Reusable Grocery Bags But nowhere in that exhaustive battery of norovirus dodges was a recommendation to avoid reusable grocery bags. Curious, considering that reusable-but-not-recyclable alternative to single-use plastic bags were recently linked to an unsavory outbreak of norovirus that struck a hapless middle school-aged girls' soccer team. 27 Oct 2012 Opposition Builds to UN-WHO Global Tobacco Tax Plan The article also notes that tobacco taxes are the main source of public financing in Pakistan, making it all the more concerning that the WHO agenda could, if implemented, undercut the ability of other spending priorities to be financed. 24 Oct 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Katy Perry Teams Up With Anti-Taxers to Fight Big Government A coalition of 125 celebrity musicians, including pop singer Katy Perry, have joined forces with anti-tax advocates including Grover Norquist and the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) to oppose an intellectual property "reform" bill that critics charge expands government to the detriment of the free market. 28 Nov 2012
USA Today: Green Building Program a Burden on Taxpayers A USA Today examination of the popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program revealed the system's vaulted green standards have negligible impact on a building's environmental footprint while often making staggering tax breaks available to developers. 18 Nov 2012
Google Goes to Bat for Net Neutrality, Again The Google filing disputes both arguments and seeks to buttress the FCC's case in favor of net neutrality, which free market technology experts have criticized as pushing the Internet to be treated as more of a "commons" or "utility," and as risking diminishing quality of service and limiting the incentives for investment in broadband technology. 17 Nov 2012
WHO Boots Media from Controversial Tobacco Meeting The World Health Organization (WHO) has shut the media out of a key meeting focused on global tobacco policies, according to information published in yesterday's Chattanooga Free-Press. 15 Nov 2012
Illinois County's Cigarette Tax Hike Unlikely to Deliver If smokers in Cook County quit, or move to buy more illicit, untaxed cigarettes, that will likely blow a hole in the county's revenue projections tied to the increase, while also reducing the amount of revenue Illinois and Chicago derive from their own cigarette taxes -- a tricky situation for all three jurisdictions to manage. 13 Nov 2012
IRS and Treasury Investigate Obama's SolarCity News that SolarCity, another recipient of millions in government largess from the Obama Administration, would be issuing an IPO, forced the disclosure that the IRS and the Treasury Department were now investigating the company, and others, for potential abuse of taxpayer funds. 13 Nov 2012
Global Tobacco Tax Could Be in the Cards This Week Could a global tobacco tax be on the cards if tobacco tax proponents get their way at a key international organization's meeting this week? Anti-tax advocates fear that the answer to that question may be "yes" as a conference of government representatives of 176 countries gets underway in Seoul, South Korea. 13 Nov 2012
IL County Board Gives Initial Approval to Tax Hike On Friday, the Cook County, Illinois, County Board gave its initial approval to at least one big tax hike included in the annual budget proposed by County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. 4 Nov 2012
Explosive CDC Omission: Norovirus Spread Through Reusable Grocery Bags But nowhere in that exhaustive battery of norovirus dodges was a recommendation to avoid reusable grocery bags. Curious, considering that reusable-but-not-recyclable alternative to single-use plastic bags were recently linked to an unsavory outbreak of norovirus that struck a hapless middle school-aged girls' soccer team. 27 Oct 2012
Opposition Builds to UN-WHO Global Tobacco Tax Plan The article also notes that tobacco taxes are the main source of public financing in Pakistan, making it all the more concerning that the WHO agenda could, if implemented, undercut the ability of other spending priorities to be financed. 24 Oct 2012
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