Showing posts with label Taxes 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2012. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2012

Progressive Lefties At TNR Recognize Senate Deal Is "Crappy" For Them

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So says Tim Noah, here : "Nevertheless, this is still a crappy deal, and Democrats should still reject it--or be quietly pleased if Hou...

Senate Cliff Deal Settles For TEN TIMES LESS Revenue Than Cliff-Diving

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As reported here : "Before [Obama] spoke, details of the emerging deal emerged. It would raise $600 billion in revenue over the next ...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Equality Of Taxation Would Completely Wipe Out The First 41 Million Wage Earners

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If we had anything like equality of taxation in this country, it would completely wipe out roughly the first 41 million of 151 million total...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Perhaps The Most Important Argument Against Consumption Taxes

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Perhaps the most important argument against consumption taxes is Murray Rothbard's critique of them here , noting their time-preference ...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Real Personal Income Still Remains Below The 2008 Peak

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Real personal disposable income per capita remains in depression, over 5% lower than it was on May 1, 2008, the all-time high, when it reach...

Real Retail Sales Still Remain Below The 2006 Peak

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Real retail sales still remain below the December 1, 2006 peak of $180.016 billion. The latest report of real retail sales for November 1, 2...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Tax Equality Would Expose The True Horror Of Federal Spending

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The true horror of federal spending in America would be understood by everyone if we actually had tax equality, by which I mean if everyone ...

Rush Limbaugh Repeats The Rich Man's Lies: Middle Class Has "Bulk Of The Money"

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Here : Where this is all going to end up, I'm pretty sure -- we'll see if I'm right; won't be too long, maximum next year so...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Growth Of Single Person Households To Blame For Income Inequality

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The lesson? Get married and stay married. The tax code is your friend. As reported here : Without a corresponding increase in the measured i...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Rules For Radical Republicans: Bush Tax Cuts Edition

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Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. The enemy knows the Congress is a coequal branch of the governm...
Sunday, December 9, 2012

I Don't Call Sen. Jim DeMint "Demented" For Nothing

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Here he is in all his confused glory: "I think the new debate in the Republican Party needs to be between conservatives and libertaria...

Libertarian Republican Sen. Rand Paul Recommends Going Galt On Fiscal Cliff

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Gee, what a shock, a libertarian recommending "strategic withdrawal" on new taxes. Does anyone think libertarians really believe i...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

CNBC Shills For Obama, Ignores Big Spike In Jobless Claims

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CNBC obviously wants nothing to stand in the way of Obama and the Democrats solving the fiscal cliff by raising taxes on everybody. It's...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Democrat Senate Wants Your Taxes To Go Up, Won't Vote On Obama's Plan

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Story and video here , quoting Mitch McConnell on what the Senate refused to vote on: "[W]e didn’t just put together a bill that includ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

This 47% Explains Why Democrats Want To Go Over The Fiscal Cliff

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It's funny how 47% keeps coming up. That's supposed to be the number of people who wouldn't vote for Romney because they were ...
Friday, November 30, 2012

Why Obama And Dems Will Let Bush Tax Cuts Expire

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Because in order to transform the taxpayer, first you have to destroy the taxpayer.
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Joel Kotkin Urges Republicans To Join The Class War

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"It’s time for Republicans to break with the traditions of Goldwater, Reagan, and, particularly, Bush and shift to something more akin ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Let's Face It, Republicans Helped Create "The Takers"

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It's time for a reality check. Republicans bear heavy responsibility for creating "the takers", the infamous 47% of household...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Paul Krugman Really Wants To Increase Taxes On The Middle Class

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Fair taxation looks like the rates of the 1950s, says Paul Krugman, here : "America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share....
Friday, November 16, 2012

Bushie AEI Joins Drumbeat To Raise Taxes On Middle Class

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Here . I'm pretty sure the author, Sita Nataraj Slavov, wasn't raised in Milwaukee, but you never know these days.   Link fixed.