taxes

It's tax day, and a good time to renew our repeated call for REAL tax reform in our country. As Newt Gingrich said in his column on the subject, "Nothing is certain except death and taxes, and physicians will tell you that death is much less complicated than the tax code".

More often than not, tax policy in our country is all about controlling behavior...as inpoliticians trying to control the behavior of the American public. This is the thing liberals don't usually want to admit (or just don't understand).

You can't predict the impact of taxes on a static basis because people react to taxes. They change their behavior. You can't say that if we increase taxes, we'll increase revenue...or that if we decrease tax rates (as conservatives want to do), we'll lose revenue. People react and change their behavior accordingly. The people who actually understand that work in the private sector and keepour economy moving...despite government.