Sales Tax

China has said it overtook the United States to become the world's biggest car and van market in 2009. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said 13.6 million vehicles were sold within the country last year. That compares with just ov…

Some ideas for trimming the skyrocketing federal Deficit are not just out of the box. They are out of this world. Yahoo! News asked members of the Yahoo! Contributor Network to submit their own ideas for what to do about the deficit, and contrib…

The tragic story of Arizona resident Mark Price is a stark cautionary tale of what one gets when reliant on 'the state' for 'medical care'- an early grave. Price, who was a resident of Goodyear, Arizona, died on Sunday November 28th .  Arizon…

Today Murry's Auto Body shop burned down. Smoke can be seen miles away and Firefighters took hours to put the fire out. No one was reported hurt, but events like these should remind us the need for taxes. Last election raised concerns about l…

Asking price almost exactly tax assessment, this house in Graham won't sell even "rent-to-own."    Having won in November in its fight to defeat a proposed sales-tax hike here in Guilford County, the Tea Party's next local…

The city of Roanoke intends to ask the General Assembly for permission to either ban or impose a fee upon plastic shopping bags. The city's Transportation Department told the council that “…picking up Plastic Bags along rights of way b…

Overshadowed by the acrimony over Tax Cuts for the wealthy, a provision in President Barack Obama's proposed tax deal would preserve a state sales Tax Deduction widely used throughout Texas. Don't get excited.  The Obama tax deal is no deal a…

Can Soros Save Us? Deflating the Myth of the Hedge Fund Do-Gooder. Click here to join Noam Scheiber and Richard Just at 3 p.m. EST today for a livestream discussion about Obama's divided White House. Of all the historical analogies urged on Obama…