New Jersey Government at the BottomThe Pew Center reports that New Jersey has an extremely poorly run government. Except for Rhode Island and New Hampshire, New Jersey government scored among the worst in the US. That is no surprise to taxpayers who have suffered years...
Housing Sales Drop 13%House Sales for 2007 fell 13%, to mark its biggest yearly decline in 25 years. Also, median prices FELL by 1.8% nationwide. That was the first national decline in the 40 years that home sales have been tracked! Many economists say that...
The Courier Post published my commentary about Ron Paul:Saturday, January 5, 2008Re: "Republican Ron Paul offers a different choice and new ideas" (Perspectives, Dec. 28).U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is the only candidate running who actually represents the America of our founding fathers. He promotes...
Lottery Winners Lose!The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Dec. 19 that Bertucci and the others around the country who sold their winnings to investment companies must pay income taxes on the lump sum they received instead of lower capital gains taxes....
Congress passed a new law increasing nuisance penalties against businessees:Failure to File Partnership Returns Will Be More Costly. The new law extends the period for charging the monthly partnership return failure-to-file-penalty from 5 to 12 months and increases the monthly per-partner penalty from $50 to...
Everything is taxable in California. The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) takes a very agressive position on when a LLC needs to be registered in California. Their view is if a member of the LLC makes one decision for the LLC, writes or signs one...
New Jersey Ends Death Penalty!The State of New Jersey Assembly and Senate approved the abolition of the Death Penalty on December 13, 2007. The Governor promises to sign it into law. It's about time!Ron Cappucciosee: http://www.TaxEsq.com...
Here is a video of Ron Paul Summarizing some of his positions:Click Here...
Why I Support Ron Paul for PresidentTaxesFirst, Ron Paul is the only limited government, lower taxes candidate. He has never voted to increase taxes and desires to cut government spending and taxes needed to support the spending. You cannot increase government (whether it is "infrastructure"...
Mortgage Delinquency Rates RiseThe delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties stood at 5.59 percent of all loans outstanding in the third quarter of 2007 on a seasonally adjusted (SA) basis, up 47 basis points from the second quarter of 2007, and up...