Showing posts with label Taxes 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2010. Show all posts
Friday, December 31, 2010

The Bubbles Caused by High Taxation

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Brian Domitrovic for Forbes discusses how capital went on strike in the 1970s because of a clutch of onerous tax increases starting in 1969,...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

"The Tax Code is 10 Times Longer Than the Bible, Without the Good News"

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So says Republican Representative Dave Camp of Michigan, and George Will approves, here , especially with the additional observation that it...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Rush's Brain Goes on Vacation Early

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Today he's said the SPENDING in the $857 billion bill extending the Bush TAX rates for two years was minimal, and that the majority of i...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Tax 'Em All: Let God Sort 'Em Out

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People who claim, like Rush Limbaugh, that no one is undertaxed in this country don't know what they are talking about. Both the rich an...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Extension of Bush Tax Rates Now Goes to US House

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The Senate passed the extension of the Bush tax rates, which will last for two years only and is adorned with billions in new spending whic...

Senate Votes For "Almost All" of the Bush Tax Cuts

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So says TheHill.com, here : "The package extends almost all of the Bush tax cuts . . .." The devil is in the details, and I smell ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Judge Objects to Obamacare Bait and Switch: The Mandate Became a Tax

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From Peter Wehner at Commentary Magazine: Judge Hudson writes, “Despite pre-enactment representations to the contrary by the Executive and L...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

4 of 6 Current Tax Rates Already Do Not Apply to 80% of the Country

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Per the US Census, all US households divide into five groups of equal size along these income lines for 2009: 1) $0 to $20,453 2) $20,454 to...
Friday, December 10, 2010

The Religious Origins of the Income Tax's "Standard Deduction"

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The standard deduction was designed to make it easier for people to claim their charitable contributions, without itemizing them. Note how t...

Why Rush Limbaugh Can't Tell The Truth About Income Taxes

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Rush claims no one in America is undertaxed. He doesn't want to mention, of course, that nearly half of America doesn't pay income t...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

If You Want Fewer Poor People in America, Tax Them Already!

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Here's Rush Limbaugh, with his whole brain tied behind his back, today: "Nobody in this society is undertaxed, so why applaud an ex...

The Tax Elephant in the Room: The Poor Don't Pay Their Fair Share

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Once again, the Republicans are about to blow it. What's needed for the country right now, attempting to leave politics out of the discu...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Is Ron Paul the Republicans' Dennis Kucinich?

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He was one of just three Republicans in the US House to vote with the Democrats today to send a bill to the Senate which extends the Bush ta...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Unemployment Tab to Date is $319 Billion

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The cost of unemployment benefits already paid over the last three years has soared to $319 billion, according to this story  from CNNMoney....
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Third Party Candidates in Colorado Senate Race Hand Victory to Democrat Bennet

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Where the difference between the Democrat winning and the Republican losing was only 16,000 votes. The Independent Reform candidate, a self-...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

Selling Gold? You'll Pay the IRS at 28%, not 15%

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Paul Sullivan reminds us here of a little appreciated drawback to investing in gold: And even if you invest in gold through an E.T.F. — as ...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Daniel Gross: "To Spend Money We Don't Have is Vital"

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Ah, no, but for some Americans there is no choice. Daniel Gross for The New York Times here  protests that he's witnessed a "frugal...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Gridlock, Despite Democrat Control of Everything!

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No budget, no tax bill, no jobs, no more!
Sunday, July 18, 2010

OBAMA LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILL

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The New York Times must be desperate to sell newspapers because it is almost reporting that Obama lied when he said the fine which will be ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

BUSH SUBSIDIZED THE POOREST AMERICANS AND CUT THEIR TAXES 33%

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Because George Bush was a flaming socialist. The left hated him as they did not because of the Iraq war but because he out-performed them as...