Tag Archive 'Taxes'
Bookworm on Feb 09 2010 | Filed under: California
A friend emailed me with a question about an initiative poised for California’s November ballot, called the “Simple Majority” initiative. I’ll let the Wall Street Journal explain:
Two groups are pushing ballot initiatives they say would purge that chaos from Sacramento’s budget process. A bipartisan group, California Forward, is pushing a reform to let legislators pass [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Taxes
Yesterday I wrote a long post about the fact that the abortion debate, at least on the pro-choice side, ignores social and medical advances that should make it a very different debate from the one that led to Roe v. Wade. I think this is an important conversation, because of the fact that ObamaCare would [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Taxes
Just in case he actually runs for office, the Leftist media is already planning one line of attack against Glenn Beck. They’re thinking that they can nail him on taxes, just as he went after so many Democrats who were found, wittingly or not, to have underpaid their taxes:
No one has been less forgiving than [...]
Bookworm on Dec 13 2009 | Filed under: San Francisco, Taxes
I don’t know if it’s a local, state or federal tax, but when I go into a restaurant that provides both eat-in and take-out services, I always order take-out, regardless of whether I plan to sit at one of their tables or hit the road. Why? Because the government imposes a tax on food that’s [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Economics
The Chronicle was always first in line for the Obama slobber fest, but the bloom is apparently wearing off of that well-drooled upon rose too. Today, the Chron has a front page story vigorously attack the myriad accounting errors on the administration’s boastful website about its economic chops:
Nine months after President Obama promised that his [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Democrats, Taxes
Yes, it is old news now that Tim Geithner and a whole lot of other Obama officials forgot to pay their taxes. Nevertheless, when I heard this monologue that Steve Martin did on Saturday Night Live back in 1977, I just had to include it here. It’s perfect:
You . . . can be a millionaire [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: California, Education, Identity politics, Taxes
The UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial burden. Although I agree in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Taxes, Welfare
The Daily Mail has the data to prove what we all knew: a political party that shifts the tax burden to less than 50% of the population, while leaving more than half the population dependent on government largesse, wins in perpetuity (or until the country implodes, whichever comes first).
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Bookworm on Sep 01 2009 | Filed under: Education, Taxes
The Marin IJ reports that almost $3,000,000 in stimulus money Americans will help the public school district in Ross, California:
Ross School has won the federal stimulus fund lottery.
School officials learned Friday they would receive a $2.85 million school construction bond tax credit as part of the federal stimulus bill – a credit Superintendent Tammy Murphy [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Taxes
With his typical clarity, Karl Rove explains that it is impossible for President Obama to stick to his “no new taxes” promises if he continues on this ruinous path of government spending:
The campaign team is intent upon protecting a pledge driven by its 2008 campaign polls: Mr. Obama promised never to raise taxes on anyone [...]
Bookworm on Aug 03 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
If you are a young lawyer, struggling to learn what a non-responsive answer really looks like, you can’t do better than this question-and-answer session between Jake Tapper and Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs. If Gibbs were any slicker, he’d just ooze right out of the room:
TAPPER: Robert, in terms of what Geithner and Summers had [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Health, Taxes
In just three paragraphs, Charles Krauthammar explains all of the problems with the health care reform the President so desperately wants passed by August:
President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. True. But now we learn — surprise! — that universal coverage increases costs. The congressional [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Taxes
Do you remember the words in my post title? I sure do, and I wasn’t even very politically aware then. That was George Bush, Sr., making a promise to the American people: “Read my lips: No new taxes.” He broke that promise.
It looks as if Barack Obama is readying himself to break that promise too. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2009 | Filed under: Taxes
The cat’s out of the bag now, and it’s clear that the Democrats and Obama are planning on destroying small businesses in America. This is no surprise, of course, given that small business — entrepreneurship, independence and individualism — is the antithesis of a government run marketplace:
In the middle of a recession and with rising [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Health, Taxes
In his most recent article at the Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains in great detail how Barack Obama told quite obvious lies about the stimulus numbers, only to pretend now that he didn’t really mean what he said. (That’s the lying pattern I’ve told you about.) The American people were good and fooled. The [...]
Bookworm on Jun 18 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Taxes
Rep. Michele Bachmann has set up an online petition in which you can add your name to the list of people who want Congress to stop funneling money to ACORN.
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Bookworm on Apr 13 2009 | Filed under: Taxes
Melissa Clouthier has a nice post about the tax freedom tea parties planned all over America for this coming Wednesday. After addressing (and pretty much dismissing) some concern from those on the Right about the motivations behind the tea parties, she has this lovely paragraph about the worry from the Left:
I’m smelling more than a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2009 | Filed under: Economics, Taxes
Mary Katharine Ham caught John Kerry finally admitting what Democrats fear most of all: that people will take control over their own destinies, without the elite in government dictating how their hard earned money should be spent. Perhaps if Kerry had ever held a real job and earned the money himself, he might have had [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2009 | Filed under: Economics, Government
I like the way Drudge tends to snapshot trends. Here’s an interesting one, considering the looming deficits federal, state and local governments face:
What’s missing from the above list, of course, is CUTS. Lawmakers are figuring out as hard and as fast as they can ways to drain more money from the taxpayers. The one thing [...]
Bookworm on Dec 24 2008 | Filed under: Taxes
When I outspend my budget,* I have to make drastic cuts in my expenditures. Sadly, I cannot march into my boss and announce that he must immediately give me a huge raise to cover the shortfall. Fortunately for those in government, because they have the rare ability to boss around those who pay them, they [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Education
I suspect that, once Obama starts raising taxes, buyer’s remorse is going to set in with incredible speed. This article focuses on the local economy, but is a harbinger of what will happen when taxes go up on a larger, national scale:
A temporary 1.5 percentage point sales tax increase proposed Thursday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Because the video’s creator cut in footage from Penn & Teller, there’s a fair amount of swearing, but it’s still a good video:
Bookworm on Oct 22 2008 | Filed under: Economics
I’m no economist, but I can do basic math, and I’ve watched European countries over the last 40 years. I figured out that taxing 50% of the country so that it supports the other 50% is a mistake. Adam Lerrick uses intelligent language to explain why.
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Bookworm on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Kimberley Strassel does a completely masterful job of debunking the illusion supporting Obama’s supposed economic policy:
And now, America, we introduce the Great Obama! The world’s most gifted political magician! A thing of wonder. A thing of awe. Just watch him defy politics, economics, even gravity! (And hold your applause until the end, please.)
To kick off [...]
Bookworm on Sep 18 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Immigration, Taxes
Governments tax people. They always have. A good question to ask, though, and one we haven’t seen asked lately is — what’s that money for?
The Founders had an idea about what taxes were for. In the Constitution Art. I, Sec. 8, they spelled out the purpose behind taxes:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and [...]
