Archive for the 'Taxes' Category
Bookworm on Jan 02 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Media matters, Republicans, Taxes
Tweet Today’s big story the new tax bill that Obama jetted off to Hawaii before signing, but that will soon (and inevitably) become the law of the land. I don’t see any surprises. I knew that we’d get hit hard and so we have. I gather that sequestration has now been averted, so that Obama [...]
Bookworm on Nov 05 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Media matters, Military, Taxes
Tweet Paul Brandus decided he’d had enough of the innumerable lies about Obama floating through the blogosphere, so he did some research and came up with a post: “Deconstructing the 5 most ridiculous myths about Barack Obama.“ Unfortunately for him, he forgot the cardinal rule of attacking your enemy: Know your enemy. Without that knowledge, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 28 2012 | Filed under: Judges, Judicial activism, Presidential elections, Taxes, Tea Parties
Tweet I was driving along in the car and, suddenly, the phrase “Roe v. Wade” popped into my head. In 1973, the Supreme Court waded into what should have been a state-by-state legislative matter, and created the most vicious 39 year fight in America since the Civil War. One side found the decision completely invalid, [...]
Bookworm on Jun 28 2012 | Filed under: Health, Judges, Law, Taxes, Tea Parties
Tweet The Supreme Court opinion on ObamaCare runs to 193 pages. It is the size of a book, only more boring than any book anyone would ever want to read — and that is true despite the fact that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the worst writer on the court, didn’t write it. I’ve been making a [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2012 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet Living as I do in Marin, I pay a lot — a lot — in property taxes. Because I live in a fairly well-managed place, I mostly feel I get a lot of bang for my buck. My town is clean, the roads are maintained, the schools are the best that public schools can [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2012 | Filed under: California, Health, Taxes
Tweet One of the hardest fought propositions on the California ballot this June is Proposition 29 which is described on the ballot as a new law that “imposes additional tax on cigarettes for cancer research.” Doesn’t that sound nice? Those who smoke have to fund cancer research. It’s an indirect version of “smoker heal thyself.” [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2012 | Filed under: Education, Government, Taxes
Tweet Students, not normally a personally wealthy group, are all for redistributing other people’s money. Apparently, though, they draw the line at redistributing the fruits of their own labors: The next step is to get the students to listen to Jon Lovitz’s F-Bomb laden rant and understand that, whether we’re talking grades or money, it [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2012 | Filed under: Economics, Taxes
Tweet The SF Comical sounds surprised by the fact that the Facebook IPO did not end California’s financial problems. I think someone needs to watch Bill Whittle’s video, made roughly a year ago, but clearly pertinent today:
Bookworm on Nov 27 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet Victor Davis Hanson hits it out of the park with his post explaining why higher taxes are not the answer. Some of his twelve reasons are better than others, but all are worthy of your consideration. This is my favorite of the twelve, but I think you’ll like them all: 2) Inequality? Liberals reply [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet Sadie got this in an email and posted it as a comment. It’s too good, though, not to get wider play. The beer theory of taxes explains just about everything that’s wrong with a system that drives away the wealth: THE TAX SYSTEM EXPLAINED IN BEER Suppose that every day, ten men go out [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2011 | Filed under: Education, Government, Taxes
Tweet Last night was back-to-school night at my daughter’s new high school. I was deeply impressed. The facility is beautiful; the classrooms are clean, bright and well-maintained; the teachers are engaging; the test scores are over-the-top; and the expensive extras (fancy computers, lab equipment, etc.) are all in place. My daughter loves her new school. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 22 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet Zombie begins to take seriously those who call for radical changes to our taxation system: Why not let those who demand ever higher taxes, especially for themselves (Buffet, Trump, etc.), have the opportunity to do precisely that? You should read Zombie’s entire post but, in the meantime, you can enjoy the revised Form 1040 [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet One of life’s truisms is that, on the whole, renters don’t take care of property as well as owners do. Why should they? They have no investment in the structure. If they don’t mind the aesthetics of a scuffed baseboard, stained carpet or dirty walls, it doesn’t matter. When they leave the property, they [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet The administration’s newest scheme to slow the recovery and, just coincidentally I’m sure, to put monitoring ankle bracelets on all citizens: Make all possible roads toll roads, and mandate that drivers have toll reading devices on their cars (which are, after all, tracking devices): The White House last week began circulating its legislative proposal [...]
Danny Lemieux on Apr 17 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, Democrats, Economics, Government, Taxes, Tea Parties, Uncategorized
Tweet Is our democracy germinating the seeds of its own destruction? Alexis de Toqueville warned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” That day has come. It is not yet gone. Democracy in ancient Athens lasted about 250 years. We in the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 14 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, San Francisco, Taxes
Tweet San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to “most Progressively governed cities in America.” No surprise, then, that the city’s finances are in a shambles. What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist incentives: it’s offering the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2011 | Filed under: Taxes
Bookworm on Mar 03 2011 | Filed under: Democrats, Taxes, Tea Parties
Tweet On the “real me” facebook, a “joke” is making the rounds: ”A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 04 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Government, Taxes, Uncategorized
The U.S. is already bankrupt
Bookworm on Dec 10 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Taxes
Tweet Are the wheels coming off the bus, or are we witnessing the most brilliant, and dangerous, political theater in our life times? Here’s what it looked like a few days ago: the President caved on maintaining the current tax rate, leaving Republicans triumphant. In exchange, it seemed as if the Republicans were extending unemployment [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2010 | Filed under: America, Economics, Socialism, Taxes
Tweet Two interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic — dependence on Big Government — but reach diametrically opposite conclusions. The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals. This isn’t just Dennis’ opinion, by the way. Instead, several recent [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2010 | Filed under: San Francisco, Taxes
Tweet I blogged earlier this week about the fact that San Francisco, which is broke, was trying to find $137 million so that the feds would provide it with almost $1 billion dollars in funds to build a 1.7 mile subway tunnel. Federal money, of course, is your money. This is not money belonging to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2010 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet Many of us view the IRS with a certain amount of suspicion. Being fair-minded people, we know that all societies need some mechanism to collect revenue to pay for basic government services (with the fault lying with Congress if those revenue demands are excessive). We also know that our family and friends may work [...]
Bookworm on Oct 30 2010 | Filed under: Taxes
Tweet This seemed timely, very timely:
Bookworm on Oct 18 2010 | Filed under: Economics, Taxes
Tweet In my life, if I’m running at a deficit, I cannot demand more money from my boss. The only thing I can do is cut my spending. In the world of government, which is running at a deficit, the fed demands more money from its boss (that would be, collectively, the taxpayers who are [...]