WSJ: The 30-Cent Tax Premium

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 4/18/2011 by Arthur B. Laffer - There is a lot more to taxes than simply paying the bill. Taxpayers must spend significantly more than $1 in order to provide $1 of income-tax revenue to the federal government. Read more at WSJ... Read More......

John Boehner: June 26 Leader Alert

What You May Not Know About Speaker Pelosi's National Energy Tax: More Mandates, More Regulations, and More Costs Than Ever Before

WASHINGTON, 6/26 - Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is going to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India. This, we know. ∴ It would be a bureaucratic nightmare overseen by a confusing web of government agencies that would take and redistribute trillions of dollars from family budgets and workers payrolls. This, we also know. Even Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) admitted in the Washington Post this morning that: “The truth is, nobody knows for sure how this is going to work.” How encouraging. ∴ But what don’t we know? Here are some facts you may not know about Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax... Read more at the House Republican Leaders site... Read More......