Tag: "Taxes"
Biden: I’m Going to Raise Your Taxes Because My Church Told Me To
How quickly would the MSM have jumped on this statement had Sarah Palin made it? “Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” he said. “Now it’d be different if you could make the case to me that by giving this tax cut [...]
Six Billion Temptations
Daniel Henninger, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, hits on a theme I explored back in February. You say Sarah Palin doesn’t have enough “experience” to run Washington? Washington is barely fit to be run. The problem isn’t standard political corruption. The problem is that the $2.8 trillion federal budget is a vast ocean of [...]
“Punitive Liberalism”
Here’s an interesting article by Roger Kimball on a core tenet of progressive thought – “fairness”. I don’t have a lot to add here since he’s covered the ground pretty well. Take a read and tell me what you think.
Between and Rock and an Oppressive, Democratic Place
Nothing makes you feel good about your state like the Wall Street Journal pointing at the collective heads of knuckle we call state legislators and laughing. Politicians in Annapolis are scratching their heads wondering what happened to all those chain smokers who were supposed to help balance Maryland’s budget. Last year the legislature doubled the [...]
The Nanny State Tax Scam Comes to Maine
Add Maine to the number of states who have fallen under the sway of the Nanny Knuckleheads. Their Governor has just signed a law that will raise taxes on beer, wine, and syrup used in soft drinks in order to pay for a government program to buy insurance for self-employed Mainers. The Tax Foundation is, [...]
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