Showing posts with label Taxes 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2013. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2013

North Dakota Railroad Involved In Accident Causing Oil Inferno Is Wholly Owned By Warren Buffett

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The New York Post has the story here , but never mentions Warren Buffett, who has become richer off transportation of oil by rail because hi...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Libertarians At Forbes Completely Misrepresent The Mortgage Interest Deduction

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Here : The mortgage interest deduction (MID) is the largest personal tax deduction on the books and is widely considered one of the most sac...

Largest Sums Of Federal Revenue Forfeited Because Of The Tax Code, Joint Committee On Taxation, 2012-2016

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$706.6 billion: exclusion of employer contributions for healthcare, health insurance premiums and long term care insurance premiums. $596.0 ...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Global Public Debt Is Up 72% Since 2007, Just Six Years Ago

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

GDP For Q3 2013 At 2.8% Annualized In The First Estimate, Released Today

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click to enlarge The report in pdf from the Bureau of Economic Analysis may be found here . The average report of GDP in 2013 now stands at ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

So-Called Conservative Supporters Of Illegal Alien Amnesty To Meet Tonight In DC

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Bloomberg has the story, here , naming the following so-called conservatives and right of center groups in attendance to launch a lobbying b...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Vindictive CNSNews.com blames Speaker Boehner for $3 trillion jump in total public debt

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Here : Thus, all spending and borrowing by the federal government are the de facto and de jure—n.b. constitutional—responsibility of the Hou...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Hey Mark Levin! Who Got The Bush Tax Cuts Made Permanent Under A Democrat President?

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John Boehner, you ingrate. George Bush couldn't do that even with control of the House and Senate.

Total Public Debt Owed Jumps $328 Billion After Debt Ceiling Extended

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ted Cruz And Mike Lee Aren't Heroes. They Hung John Boehner Out To Dry.

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During his non-filibuster filibuster, Sen. Ted Cruz had called defunding ObamaCare a matter of life and death:  “In a football game we all c...

The Far Left Also Realizes Boehner Won. Too Bad Republicans Don't.

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The Nation , here : Because the deal only includes minor concessions, the Beltway consensus is that it represents a resounding defeat for R...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Boehner Knew The Political Danger Of A Shutdown. Republicans Should Have Listened To Him.

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As always, Republican disunity becomes the Democrat opening, but Boehner deserves blame for not insisting on his preference and for letting ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Why Money Market Funds Are Especially At Risk If The Government Defaults

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the one-month T-bill settled at .27 after spiking to .32 Money market funds invest in ultra short term securities like T-bills with average ...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Be Careful, Default Is A Venerable Old Liberal Democrat Specialty, Exponentially Imitated By Liberal Republicans

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The Atlantic  stumbles into the truth, here : In 1933, President Roosevelt devalued the dollar against gold. That violated the so-called go...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Obama Wants A Debt Default To Discredit His Opposition?

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So suggests JT Young, who makes a plausible, although strictly political argument, here , for why Obama might want a debt default: [T]he las...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Don't Ask, Don't Tell Used To Be "The Law Of The Land" Too, But That Didn't Stop Democrats From Trying To Repeal It

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Rich Lowry in The New York Post, here : Having done the deed, Democrats now expect Republicans to salute smartly, accept “the law of the lan...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

ObamaCare Will Force Millions More Into Medicaid, And DENY Them The Right To Buy Private Insurance

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It will deny them because ObamaCare-compliant plans will simply be too expensive for them to afford, and those will be the only ones availab...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Total Public Debt Outstanding Kept At $16.738 Trillion By Treasury Dept. For Four Months!

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I can't show you all of the data because the format is too long for me to capture it all in a single screen shot. All of June, all of Ju...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Most Of The Free-Rider Problem Is An EMTALA Problem, Not A General Healthcare Problem

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Maybe a guy who can't count shouldn't mess with your health insurance. One good  estimate of the cost of uncompensated hospital and...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

The World Has Learned Nothing Since The Crisis: Global Public Debt Is Up 63% 2008-2013

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2008 global public debt $32 trillion Global public debt, the amount owed by the world's governments, has risen by almost $20 trillion in...