Marriage is well-known for its difficulties. Some struggles are inevitable, but others are decided by the person you marry.
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About Megan Russell
Megan Russell+, daughter of David John Marotta and wife of Matheson Russell, is the Systems Analyst for Marotta Wealth Management. A Cognitive Science graduate from the University of Virginia, Megan loves neuroscience, formal logic, creative writing, kittens, and her childhood.
Marketplace Fairness Act Burdens Businesses with State Compliance Audits
Compliance isn’t just a technical burden. It is a threat of legal liability. The bill allows state tax audits by any state against any online vendor.
Read More...Marketplace Fairness Act Adds Automation to Tax Confusion
It is not a new tax. It is simply a tax that nearly everyone currently reading this column is successfully evading without prosecution.
Read More...Helping New Graduates Get a Financial Life
Matthew Illian says young adults should read one personal finance book a year to expand their financial literacy. See what books we would recommend.
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Do Tariffs Protect an Infant Industry?
Do infant industries need tariffs to protect them from their own inefficiency and stupidity?
Read More...Essential Financial Advice for College Graduates
As the wife of a 2013 college graduate and a 2012 college graduate myself, I can boldly say this was the most helpful advice given to me.
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Is There A Moral Case for “Buy American”?
Perhaps we would be economically better off with global trade, but do we have an obligation to maintain a higher moral standard?
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Is “Buy American” Un-American?
America will continue to lose jobs where we don’t have a comparative advantage and gain jobs where we do. This change should be welcome.
Read More...Keep Working and Hire Financial Professionals
For families with complexity to their finances, hiring a tax professional actually saves them money. Wealth managers bring benefit to such families in the same way.
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Better to Bank with Cyprus Than the United States?
Without any authorizing legislation, the U.S. government has quietly taken more value than Cyprus tried and failed to confiscate.
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Is 95% of the Trade Imbalance Legal Tax Evasion?
As one of Forbes’s 25 largest fictional companies, Stark International could avoid $4 billion in U.S. corporate taxes with this one simple technique.
Read More...More Than 25% of Americans Are Making a Financial Mistake
If you look beyond the short term, making this move is pretty clearly worse than using a high-interest credit card to pay your bills.
Read More...8 Questions For Those Who Think “Free Trade Fails in Theory and Practice”
If you’ve disagreed with our most recent two articles on free trade, then I challenge you to respond to these questions. Anyone?
Read More...The Benefits of Free Trade Agreements: The Country Always Wins
Average Americans think about trade imbalances the wrong way. They have it exactly backward.
Read More...What The Government Wishes You Didn’t Know About Antidumping Laws
Anti-dumping rules are supposed to protect domestic producers and domestic jobs from unscrupulous foreign competition, but anti-dumping rules raise prices for their consumers and producers, shrink profits, and reduce the capacity of firms to invest, expand, and hire more workers.
Read More...The Benefits of Free Trade Defined: The Consumer Always Wins
All I want is a simple cup of coffee near where I work. Is that asking too much of free trade?
Read More...Do Tax Cuts Actually “Starve the Beast”?
Daniel J. Mitchell of the CATO Institute wrestles with the lack of no historical data to support the Starve the Beast model, only to find out that it’s because politicians have never really given it a shot.
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Should We Raise Taxes to Balance the Budget?
The only two ways to balance the federal budget are to spend less or to collect more. Spending less is the preferred method, but that is just not happening. As a result, politics is pushing many in Congress to try to balance the budget by raising taxes.
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Are Property Rights Human Rights?
Does a property owner has the right to use and dispose of his property as he sees fit even if that means he is being irrational, arbitrary, capricious, even unjust?
Read More...Let the Income Tax Die at Age 100
The income tax penalizes productivity, discourages hard work, and suppresses investment.
Read More...New Year’s Resolutions for the Country
To fulfill the financial resolutions of spending less, living within our means, and paying off our debt, the country first needs to encourage production rather than discourage it.
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