Taxing health care benefits: Obama was against it, before he was for it
Anyone else remember how Obama railed against McCain’s plans to tax employer-provided health care benefits? Anyone else remember how he attacked McCain during the debates as supporting a...
View ArticleObama won’t raise your taxes?
Well maybe not your federal income tax (yet), but he’ll nail the average working stiff any other way he can possibly imagine. via Michelle Malkin, we get a link to this Yahoo news item. President...
View ArticleSOTU thoughts
More thoughts on the SOTU address that Obama gave Wednesday night now that I’ve had a chance to finish listening to the speech. (yeah, I’m late but I was busy yesterday) Short version of the review –...
View ArticleObamacare will encourage people to drop coverage
Volokh has an interesting quote in one of his recent posts. The just passed Obamacare bill will actually discourage people from obtaining coverage. They’ll just wait until they are forced to buy...
View ArticleFirst hits from Obamacare
Mme. Pelosi famously stated a few weeks back that we needed to pass Obamacare before we could find out what was in it. Well, we’ve done that and now we’re finding out that among the first hits...
View ArticleObamacare is the realization of Cloward-Piven
Match this report from Gallup up with this Wikipedia page and you’ll see that Obama has almost managed to implement Cloward & Piven’s strategy. Of course, he chose health care as his crisis...
View ArticleIt’s the economy, stupid
As this Heritage Foundation post describes, Nancy Pelosi has no concept of what is going on in the mind of average Americans. She still believes that tax hikes and unemployment checks will somehow...
View ArticleLet them eat cake
Via Reason Mag – “Lady O” is back to spending our tax dollars on her latest lavish trip for her and 40 of her “closest” friends. Apparently her retinue will be taking up 60 – 70 rooms in in a posh...
View ArticleObama approval rating hitting new lows
The Rasmussen daily tracking poll has Obama’s Presidential Approval Rating at -22. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly...
View ArticlePower to tax
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” –John Marshall
View ArticleThe Power to Tax
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” –John Marshall, McCullough v....
View ArticlePaying their “fair” share
The AEI post about relative tax burdens borne by Americans is (to say the very least) an eye-opener. Using CBO data, this post shows that the top quintile not only pays it’s “fair” share of federal...
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