A press release went out yesterday from the Jeff Flake for Senate campaign that had a simple but potent critique of Wil Cardon.

Here is the text:

While Jeff Flake Campaigns for Lower Taxes and Less Regulation, Wil Cardon Campaigns for “Marketer-In-Chief”

PHOENIX …

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” From FDR to Rahm Emmanuel, the left’s answer to a crisis is always the same:

Good. This will allow us to blame the crisis on a lack of government (spending, intervention, regulation, force, etc.). We will …

It’s a simple enough headline: Brewer signs new business tax cuts into law. But it is a very important step in restoring a healthy economic climate in Arizona.

Simply put, business taxes are among the most damaging to an economy.  A recent study from …

Over the course of the week, we have made posts on the subjects of the effective tax rates and raw dollar tax payments of the so-called “1-Percent” and the “99-Percent.” That may sound a bit wonky, but it’s really quite simple. …

Keith Russell Judd is a self-proclaimed superhero and Rastafarian Christian who has run for President every time since 1996.  The finance reports he files with the FEC are rambling, typewritten documents that have little to do with fundraising and much more to do …

Catching up on some reading from last week that I was unable to squeeze in at the time, I ran across something I had forgotten. In Keeping nature exactly as is… forever, John Stossel reminded me of an important study done in 2009:

In Spain, …

From Human Events:

President Barack Obama has displayed an insatiable appetite for higher taxes, but Americans are wary of trusting him with any more of their money.

He has demonstrated staggering economic incompetence, manifested in his weak “recovery,” a $1.3 trillion deficit, doubling gas prices, …

Voters in Europe have chosen the welfare state delusion over reforms that would enable the region to become prosperous again.

In Greece, and now France, outright socialists have taken control of the levers of power.  The person responsible for the maximum 35-hour workweek in …

The effective tax rate of the 1% is 3 times higher than the entire 99%

Yesterday, we posted a comparison between the absolute dollar amount in taxes paid by the top 1% and the bottom 50%. Since the Occupy crowd and their ilk are …

The top 1% of income tax payers paid over 318 billion dollars.The bottom 50% paid less than 20 billion.

It is very often the case, when looking at economic data, that percentages are used rather than raw dollar figures. Percentages are used because raw …