Tax Politics
The Politics of Taxes
Obama’s Budget: 0-414
Obama's $3.6 trillion budget proposal was defeated Wednesday night in the House of Representatives by a vote of 414-0. Not a single Democrat supported it. This vote was reminiscent of the defeat of Obama's budget last year in the Senate, by a vote of 97-0. No...
EPA: I have the Power (Plant)
As I have written here before, the President has been able to effectively pass laws which Congress has not passed through the use of the Executive Order and his government agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to be one of his most popular. For...
Tax Breaks = the Size of the Annual Federal Deficit Budget
A recent article in the WSJ discusses a newly-released report. Tax breaks, for all segments of the population, total more than $1 trillion. Such a staggering figure -- roughly the size of the annual federal deficit budget -- reinforces something I have stressed...
March 23, 1775
On this two year anniversary of ObamaCare, we must remember a greater anniversary, the sage words spoken 237 years ago today. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale...