Mitt Romney handed President Obama a political gift this weekend, when his campaign announced that he would not file his tax return on time. Romney made the announcement at 5 p.m. on Friday — the time politicians usually put out bad news they hope no one will notice. Team Obama noticed all right

What I find most fascinating about the debate over corporate personhood is the fact that the people who defend corporate personhood don't anthropomorphize big business nearly as much as those who oppose it.

This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

Newt Gingrich's response to the question of whether Congress should fulfill President Obama's request that it provide a one-time payment of $250 to Social Security recipients to offset the absence of a cost-of-living adjustment this year.

The FairTax proposal, which now has fifty-four sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, would institute a national retail sales tax to replace individual and corporate income taxes, payroll and self-employment taxes, and estate and gift taxes. The question of what sales-tax rate would be needed to replace the revenue...

One basic principle of the rule of law is that laws apply to everybody. If the sign says "No Parking," you're not supposed to park there even if you're a pal of the alderman. The Obamacare waiver process appears to violate this rule.

According to Sen. McConnell, Republicans would not have to vote to raise the debt limit, which could be interpreted by some of their constituents as a vote to increase the size of government. Instead, they would vote to NOT raise the debt limit and the President would veto the resolution.

Limiting the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from charitable institutions to the federal government.