Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning a profit. Companies that lost money were deemed too risky for public investors.
I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.
There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.
