TAX POLITIX
The Politics of Taxes
Poll: Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share
Obama: Taxes and Reelection
Geithner: Higher Taxes is an American Privilege
Spending Cuts Better than Tax Hikes
A quick little snippet coming from the AP -- a new poll shows that more Americans would rather cut spending than raise taxes 56 percent to 31 percent, more embraced cuts in government services than higher taxes as the best medicine for the budget, according to the survey, which was conducted Feb. 16 to 20. Thankfully, a majority of Americans have more sense than our Administration these days
Dividend Disaster
Welfare for Drivers?
This is straight out of Ron Klain's opinion piece on Bloomberg entitled "How to Defuse Political Peril of Surging Gas Prices": One idea might be a “pocketbook protection” plan, which would work as follows: If the average price of gas exceeds $4 a gallon, an additional, automatic payroll tax cut of 1 percent would kick in, as much as $50 per month, per person. The cut would stay in place for at least 90 days; it would disappear when the price fell below $4.00 per gallon. There are three...
Keystone and the Market
Gas prices are the highest they've ever been so early in the year. There are plenty of reasons for the high prices, and lots of reasons to expect a big price surge in the spring, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for Oil Price Information Service. "Early February crude oil prices are higher than they've ever been on similar calendar dates through the years, and the price of crude sets the standard for gasoline prices," Kloza said. In addition, several refineries have been mothballed in recent...
ARRA: Three Years Later
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus bill was signed exactly by President Barack Obama on February 17th, 2009. We were told how this would help Americans go back to work while creating more jobs. Yep. So much for Keynesian Economics. Daniel Synder did an excellent summary the other day entitled "Economics: The 'Science' of Hubristic Hope". It's a must read regarding the current state of our economy. Perhaps while we are waiting in line to pump our $5 gas....
Occupy University
Well, isn't this cozy. The Occupy movement, which began in September, has occupied several universities this spring. USA Today highlights a course being taught at Roosevelt University in Chicago (surprise?) called "Occupy Everywhere". Similar classes on the history and/or significance of the Occupy cause are being offered at Brown University, USC-San Diego, and New York University. While Columbia could not get approval for such a class in time, it did offer college credit for participation in...
Exploiting our General Welfare
The recent controversy over Obama's attempted coercion and erosion of religious liberty reminded me of an essay Thomas Sowell wrote shortly after the oil spill. Sowell made the case that the U.S. is on the slippery slope to tyranny, cited the action by the Obama administration regarding compensation for the oil spill victims as an example. He wondered, “[j]ust where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a...
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