fair tax

Ohio License plate fees

As the State goes broke and is looking for ways to raise revenue (without raising taxes) look to new fees, penalties and other scams to reach into your pocket. We already saw dog licenses go up (still no need to license cats- which I don’t understand). Greg got hit with the new late fee for Read More

Sales tax collection confusion: the State’s role

Sales taxes are often considered by conservatives the simple solution to taxation: i.e., a “flat tax” or “consumption tax.” They think that this will solve all taxation problems. On the surface, simplifying taxes seems, well, simple. However, as long as politicians or accountants are involved, simple will never happen. The Dayton Daily News had a Read More

The long view on the current crisis: time for an Internet sales tax for education

Spending is down, sales tax revenues are falling, real estate values and the correlating property taxes are falling- and even the “Fair tax” advocates are pro-consumption taxes, so it’s time to institute a fixed national sales tax on all items purchased over the Internet, collected Federally, and distributed per capita, by student- for education. Not Read More

Obama asks? Esrati Answers: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?

While I’m lucky to have 20 or so people engaged in a discussion online, being a celebrity presidential candidate with a 100 million dollar plus budget gets a lot of attention. So when Senator Obama asks a question on the business social networking site LinkedIn- he gets a lot of great feedback: LinkedIn: Answers: How Read More