What Trump Got Right and Wrong

Trump’s Hits and Misses, Newsday, January 30, 2018. "Despite the incessant media uproar — some of it caused by the man himself — President Donald Trump hasn’t been the disaster his opponents expected. In both policy and process, his successes mirror his failures."

Yet Another Brilliant Idea from the Bureaucrats

Let’s Send Your Tax Forms To China!, Forbes, May 26, 2016, "There are bad ideas – such as making our tax code so complicated and intrusive that compliance costs billions, yet we can’t be sure what we owe, or that we’re not paying too much. Then there are really bad ideas – such as taking the tax forms of any American who does any international business and sending them to the People’s Republic of China or Russia."

What Apple and Budweiser Have In Common

Of Bacon and Apple and Taxes and Beer, Newsday, June 7, 2013. "Last week Shuanghui International, China's largest pork producer, announced a surprise agreement to buy Smithfield, the largest such U.S. firm, for $7.4 billion, including debt. We can expect more deals like this in the future. The reasons tell us a lot about what is right, and what is wrong, with the U.S. as an economic power."

From Internet Tax to VAT

Senate Takes A Step Toward the VAT, Newsday, May 10, 2013. "If the Senate has its way, online sales taxes are coming to a computer near you. The so-called Marketplace Fairness Act sailed through the Senate on Monday by a 69-27 margin. If approved in the House, the act won’t just cost you money. It will also put the United States on the road to adopting a European-style national sales tax."