Showing posts with label Spending 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2015. Show all posts
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Tax package just passed will increase deficits by $68 billion annually

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Reported here : "The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimated that the tax bill will cost $622 billion over 10 years. Tax prov...

After all its crimes, the Republican Congress just gave the IRS an extra 3% in funding as a reward

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Story here : "The $1.1 trillion omnibus provides an additional $290 million for the IRS, an increase of 3 percent over the last f...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

National Review updates editorial about "disappointing spending bill" which bashed Trump who had not one thing to do with it

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Here . Girly men still.
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Obama Friday signed stop-gap funding expiring December 16, but why hasn't this been an issue in the Republican debates?

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The giant spending bill betrayal which gave us Paul Ryan as Speaker has been stoppable all during the presidential debating season, but...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

The New York Times criticizes Republican tax plans, pretending revenues are needed to cover spending

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Here : "All of these candidates deny fiscal reality. In the next 10 years, revenues will need to increase by 40 percent simply ...
Friday, October 30, 2015

US Senate passes House sequester buster, budget and debt ceiling package this morning at 3:00 AM

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They do nothing most "weeks", which run from Tuesday to Thursday, and then ram utter crap through in hours. Bunch of goose poo...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Just 79 Republicans voted for new budget, blowing sequestration caps, lifting the debt ceiling to March 2017, and attempting to decide all spending for two years, a complete rout of the conservatives

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The Roll Call vote is here , taken at 5:21 PM yesterday, before today's activities electing Ryan. Boehner voted for it after engin...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Paul Ryan, who voted for CROMNIBUS, is just fine with the budget deal and the cowardly Freedom Caucus will still support him for Speaker

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Paul Ryan, quoted in Politico, here : "[U]nder new management we are not going to do the people's business this way. We are u...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Sean Trende spells out the achievements of John Boehner

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Sean Trende notes that: federal expenditures on a quarterly basis flatlined beginning in early 2011, right when Republicans took control...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Conservatives give thanks for the achievements of John Boehner, libertarians, the ignorant and the stupid just snarl

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Saved taxpayers $ 762 billion over ten years by making the Bush tax rates permanent for 98% of all filers beginning at the dawn of 2013 ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Charles C. W. Cooke embraces the impotence of contemporary conservatism faced with Donald Trump

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Where else but in National Review  here , the locus of conservatism as ineffectual cult and ideology, which finds it impossible to revolt ...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Paying off the $18.1 trillion national debt in 30 years . . .

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Financed at 3.5%, it would require annual payments of $977.4 billion to retire the $18.1 trillion national debt in 30 years. This assu...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Democrats broke nearly every promise about ObamaCare

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Jack Kelly here : Nearly every promise Democrats made has been broken. The average family pays more (some much more) for insurance, no...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

The dollar has surged 2.26% since Wednesday to trade at 95 this morning

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The dollar hasn't traded at 95 since late 2003. Much more of this dollar strength is due to the continued improving fiscal condi...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Oh the horror: Did you know the personal saving rate INCLUDES IRA and 401(k) contributions?

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The annual average of the rate is shown. Then how come the personal saving rate has been in steady decline since 1974 when IRAs were f...