Jan Tucker

Jan Tucker

Obama puts unitary tax in spotlight

Although President Obama hasn’t referred to it as such, several times recently he has called for global taxation of the profits of multi-national corporations. In the absence of a unitary tax on a multinational corporation’s worldwide income, it is a…

Capital gains. Political losses

In 1996, the Los Angeles Times called me a “P.R. Guru” and whether it was true or not, the accusation took on a life of its own and people began to believe it. Whatever one believes to be true becomes…

Insider trading in LA Superior Court

The recent scandals in Washington and the passage of legislation to ban congressional “insider” stock trading caused me to unearth an old memo that I’d sent to federal authorities some time ago, because it seemed quite plausible that a Los…

Replace janitors with children, says Gingrich

Newt Gingrich’s justification for his proposition that unionized school janitors should be replaced by children is his contention that his daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, spent a time as a part time janitor at the First Baptist Church in Carrollton, Georgia…