Leslie Carbone
Leslie Carbone is the author of "Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform" (Potomac, 2009). Her writing has appeared in magazines including "The Weekly Standard" and "The American Enterprise", in newspapers from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" to "The San Francisco Chronicle", and on Web sites like "BreakPoint" and "National Review Online". She has appeared on more than 200 radio and television talk shows, been quoted in national newspapers including "The Wall Street Journal" and "USA Today", and spoken at venues across the United States from Tea Parties to college campuses, including Northwestern University, UCLA, and Cornell University. Ms. Carbone has served as Chief-of-Staff to the late Assemblyman Gil Ferguson of California, Executive Director of Accuracy In Academia, Director of Family Tax Policy at Family Research Council, Senior Writer at Koch Industries, Inc., and Speechwriter for former Secretary of Labor of the United States Elaine L. Chao.
IRS Targeted Groups Trying to “Make America a Better Place”
As with the tax code and the (un)Affordable Care Act it is tasked with enforcing, the more we learn about…
Is Tyranny Around the Corner?
It’s been a bad week for the government-is-your-trustworthy-benefactor crowd. On Wednesday, three credible witnesses torpedoed Obama Administration claims about what…
Government Incompetence Strikes Again
Well, it’s Sequester Eve, and both Democrat and Republican bills to address the government-manufactured crisis have failed. This shouldn’t be…
What difference does the role of government make?
As the quadrennial glare that hovers around the external trappings of elevated office fades, it behooves the citizens of the…
It’s the Culture, Stupid
What do we do now? The center-right hand-wringing in the wake of Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama exceeds any…
Same-Sex “Marriage” and Big Government
It’s been big week for same-sex “marriage”. On Tuesday, the voters of North Carolina passed a Constitutional amendment asserting: “Marriage…
Obama Tries Again to Spread the Wealth Around
Invoking the phrase “fair share” over and over again–as though repetition made it meaningful if not truthful–a smug President Barack…
Same Scheme, Different Speech
Raising specters straight out of the Bleeding Heart Anthology of Horror Tales–like people actually delaying retirement to send their kids…
The Immorality of Our Federal Income Tax
George Bernard Shaw famously observed that those who rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of…
Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. President, and thank you!
“That reminds me of a story,” said Ronald Reagan, in his warm, smooth, low-toned voice, that voice that didn’t have…
