Showing posts with label Taxes 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2014. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Norway whacks GDP projection by over 50% amidst plunging oil prices

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Seen here : According to Statistics Norway, lower investment in the oil sector, Norway's primary growth engine, will likely slow...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Michigan legislators cut the baby in half in lameduck twilight, requiring internet sales tax collection from businesses with any form of physical presence

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Reported here : SB 658 and SB 659 extend the state's sales and use taxes to out-of-state companies with a physical "nexus...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Liberal WaPo defends economist who says middle class is just fine because of . . . transfer payments!

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Where have I heard this before? Consider The Washington Post, here : "CBO saw a dramatic difference in middle class income ga...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Stupid things heard on the Steve Gruber Show radio program last week

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Both the AM drive-time host, Steve Gruber, a libertarian for whom every opponent is taken as a challenge to his manhood, and his weekly ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Crazy WaPo article portrays middle class as complete creature of government spending

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Here , focusing on the anecdotal history of the middle class in Downey, California, where the removal of spending on the space program has...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

NY Times laments "tax uncertainty" over breaks which expired almost a year ago

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As seen at Amazon This is like lamenting that the Bush tax cuts became permanent two years ago. The only uncertainty is for liberals w...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Carnage in Commodities: Gold/Oil Ratio soars to 18.08

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Gold continues to lose ground to plunging oil prices, making oil the preferred investment of the two, if you had to chose between them. ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Maybe Senator Jon "Tin Ear" Kyl really wants Republicans to lose next week

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Here is the former Senator from Arizona Republican Jon Kyl in The Wall Street Journal (where else?) just days before the Republicans ar...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Stupid Frenchman's solution to American capitalism is to make it even less capitalistic than it already is

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He wants to prohibit you from selling "too soon", here : "[I]f you want to hire someone else to manage your money, whet...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Total Market Capitalization To Nominal GDP Ratios, Selected Years

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I have used the Wilshire 5000 level at year end multiplied by 1.2 as a proxy for total stock market capitalization (except where noted by...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

The problem with free-market ideology in our time isn't about the tax code, it's about patriotism

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Free-marketeers in our time want to wipe away the favors of the tax code, many of which go to the middle class in the form of credits and de...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Warren Buffett keeps the liberal wolves at bay by favoring higher taxes and now we learn abortion to the tune of $1.2 billion

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In exchange for Warren Buffett's liberalism on tax increases on the rich and his support for abortion Obama is content to enrich Buf...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Conservative traitor Bush 41 ACCEPTS JFK Profile in Courage Award for breaking no new taxes promise

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To Democrats the only good Republican is the traitor to his own kind. It is enough of an insult that George Herbert Walker Bush was give...

It's time to treat the rich like equals: Dean Kalahar speaks up for proportional taxation

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Here , although the ahistorical reading of Scripture by liberals on behalf of progressive taxation is hardly new: Proportional taxes actuall...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

The One Chart Which Best Explains The Reason For The Growth Of Income Inequality In The US

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The chart comes from The Motley Fool, here , and has nothing to do per se with the subject of the current debate abou...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Cheapskate MI Gov. Snyder Proposes Refunding Barely 10% Of Revenue Surplus

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It's never your money in the first place to these people. Story here : LANSING, MI -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is calling for $103 mill...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Wisconsin's Governor Walker Says Surplus Is Taxpayers' Money, Michigan Governor Snyder ... Not So Much

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Reported here on January 17th: Wisconsin's budget surplus was projected Thursday to reach nearly $1 billion, money that Gov. Scott Walk...