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CT Top Ten In Foreclosures

Given the gross financial mis-management of Connecticut does this come as a surprise?
Beat businesses out of the state, the financial engine of all our wealth.
Squeeze taxpayers with the highest taxes in the land.
Refuse to acknowledge the economic reality by lowering taxes and spending and at some point the peasants just can’t carry the manor anymore.
From […]

Milestone, 70,000th Visitor

A milestone here at the CtTaxed headquarters. We have reached our 70,000th visitor from somewhere deep in Pennsylvania.
Lately more and more of our readership is non-Connecticut based. Especially for articles on National politics with the keyword “Obama”. Only glad to help!
I will continue a heavy Connecticut focus, I was born here, I […]

Obama Calls For Checks On Executive Pay

Obama has called for a law that would require corporations to submit to the shareholders a referendum for the lack of a better word on the CEO compensation package.
They the shareholders would not get to reject it, but rather express approval or disapproval. The right to approve a compensation package would still reside with […]

Typical Obama voter: young, clueless

From the Wonkette site.

chanting “Obama” because it’s easy to pronounce. The sad thing is this kid is probably a superdelegate.

The Income Tax Started In 1913

Maximum rate was 6% and the original 1040 consisted of just 4 pages including instructions.
Since then the income tax has become a tool to influence social change and to fund it.  Credits for proper socially acceptable spending, increased taxes to deter un-desirable behavior.
Un-Desirable behavior: Smoking and working.
Desirable behavior: Putting up solar panels and working less.
Here […]

Ethanol Plant Construction Stopped, Or Buy Cargill Stock

Cargill citing unfavorable market conditions, which reads as “corn is too expensive” announced it has stopped construction of an ethanol plant. Just one of four they were to have built in the Midwest.
Media reports have cited the slowdown of the ethanol industry, and the rising price of corn as factoring into the company’s […]

Running Ethanol (corn) In Your Car Will Cost You +$5,000 Over 10 Years

From the US Government, their figures not mine. Not to mention the cost in subsidies you are paying through your taxes.   Such a deal!
Gee, Chris Dodd now that you are back from living in Iowa (a large corn producing state) how about helping us out and try to kill this stupid program?
E85 […]

Warren Buffett Says The Dollar Will Continue To Lose Value

The trend will continue, while the dollar has regained some of it’s lost value, ~5% of the ~33% it has lost, Warren Buffet the internationally famous investor believes the dollar will continue to lose value.
In the future, I would predict that the US dollar will decline,” Buffett, the world’s second-richest man, said Wednesday at a […]

Last Time I Checked Reagan Left Office 23 Years Ago

It seems almost the sum total of the Republican Primary race has been devoted to answering the question, who is most like Reagan or who is the one true heir of the Reagan legacy.
My friends this is a recipe for electoral disaster. Last I checked, Reagan was dead and left office over 23 years […]

London Calling on Line 1 for Ron Paul

Axe the Ox
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy) North American affairs
(2)
I have been reading the Ron Paul Campaign blog on a regular basis and this portion of an interview with Glenn Beck brought a grin to my face:
GLENN: Okay. If you were President of the United States, […]

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