Archive for 'Taxes' Category
Democrats Propose New Tax
8 April 2008Hardly a new headline, but true. From the Hartford Courant
…a legislative proposal to charge an extra 6 percent sales tax on delivery charges for packages sent to homes and businesses.
Kevin Maloney, president of the state’s messenger association, said his industry makes only a 4 percent net profit each year, and so it would definitely pass […]
Record Business Closings: Press Conference Held
7 April 2008Well that should do it. We’ve been treated to a press conference, we’ve been shown they care and concerned, why they even put on their best glum faces.
Actually the press conference was held prior to this announcement, remember the “repeal the business entity tax press conference”? The elected employees lead by Secretary of […]
Obama: A 28% Tax Would Not Be Confiscatory
28 March 2008Who was the last Presidential candidate to talk about how much they were going to raise taxes prior to the election? Was it Dukakis? Or was it Mondale? Or was it McGovern?
We know it’ll be Barack Obama.
The current tax rate on Capital Gains is 15%, Barack feels this is too low. In […]
Airbus, Alabama, Boeing, and McCain and Pratt
17 March 2008The Airbus/Boeing competition has had some interesting turns. The original proposal was for Boeing to lease planes to the Air Force and apparently there was some illegal activity during the bidding process, enough illegal activity that Federal Prison time was served.
McCain prides himself in the role he played blocking an earlier version of […]
Obama, Liechtenstein, Protectionism and The London School Of Economics
29 February 2008Quite a list. Let’s start with London.
Writing for the Financial Times, a professor from the London School of Economics identifies a number of enemy jurisdictions that pose a grave threat to the world. Some of these jurisdictions should be subject to sanctions, he writes, but in other cases he urges much more aggressive tactics, […]
The Poverty Trap Is Still Very Much A Reality In The U.S
11 February 2008This is the story of a woman trying to work her way out of poverty for son and herself. But unwittingly she finds herself in a worse position for having taken a job that gave her a 40% pay raise. Normally this would raise one’s standard of living considerably, however for this person […]
Red State Missouri Has A More Open Government Than Blue State CT
8 February 2008Does it not just frost your blue behind when a red necked state does something as progressive as this?
Missouri Accountability Portal
Welcome to the Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP).
A MAP to your tax dollars.
The MAP site is presented to the citizens of Missouri on behalf of Governor Matt Blunt as a single point of reference […]
Calvin Coolidge On Freedom And Taxes
6 February 2008This 1924 movie taken on the White House lawn is the first “talkie” of a President. The topic is how the government through taxes saps the strength and will of it’s people and denies their right of freedom. Interesting.
First a quote from Calvin’s Secretary Andrew Mellon:
The history of taxation shows that taxes […]
There Is A Difference Between Democrat And Republican
4 February 2008Clearly of issues when your wallet is concerned this crop of Republicans seems to have re-discovered the virtues of keeping spending down.
New Spending Proposed by 2008 Presidential Candidates
Candidate
Total Proposed Spending Increase
(Annual, in Billions)
Clinton
$218.2
Huckabee
$54.2
McCain
$6.9
Obama
$287.0
Paul
-$150.1
Romney
$19.5
Source: National Taxpayers Union Foundation calculations.
Now we know politicians […]
Funny Thing About Recessions
29 January 2008First thing Washington wants to do is give us our money back. If this is such great advice in a recession, think about how good advice it would be when we are not in a recession!
However they are arguing on how to give the money back, seems some Americans would not get a dime […]