Two More Gas Tax Opinions
The first via The Federalist: You can understand it only if you understand that in some minds there is a constant imperative for the expansion of government. The only question they ask is whether they...
View ArticleThe Idiocy of Republican Gas Taxes Part 2: The Coming Oil Bust
Hopefully just a leveling off and not a bust, but rigs are shutting down and going idle: After six straight months of plunging oil prices, U.S. shale drillers have sent the clearest signal to date that...
View ArticleIdiotic Republicans and the Idiotic Gas Tax Hike
This could easily be titled “why I’m not a Republican”, but there are plenty of reasons for that. This is just a big, bold, in-your-face reminder from the Republicans that they are shortsighted,...
View ArticleNew IRS Form Shows Obama Lied About Individual Mandate Tax
We were told over and over again that Obamacare wasn’t a tax. Then it passed SCOTUS and the weak-willed Roberts as a tax. And now the IRS has gone ahead and included it on the 1040 as a tax. From...
View ArticleThe IRS’s Peculiar Pie Charts
From page 39 of the 1040EZ instructions form: With their pie charts laid down, the selection of what to put up front gives the illusion of greater proportions going to or coming from specific outlays...
View ArticleSo God Made a Farm Bill
Very sharp, from Kim Strassel at WSJ: And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer. God said, “I need somebody willing to get up...
View ArticleEven More Liberals Getting Hit With Obamacare Bills
A lot has happened in a week, as Krauthammer saying “the president now is toxic” seems to be getting proved more and more true. That’s because the Obama government is chosing winners and losers – the...
View ArticleObama Administration Silencing Obamacare Dissent
Filed under: First Amendment, Government, Healthcare, Leftists, Media, Obamacare, Socialism, Tax, taxes, Tyranny
View ArticleMore Liberals Getting Hit With Obamacare Bills
Previously. Now, some more choice quotes. From a Yahoo piece titled “Health Care Shoppers Aren’t as Dumb as Obama Thinks“: Jim Stadler is one of the “5 percenters”—the 5% of Americans with health...
View ArticleWhy Obamacare is a Fantastic Success
Wayne Allyn Root has this piece at FOX where he lays out the case: The GOP needs to stop calling ObamaCare a “trainwreck.” That means it’s a mistake, or accident. That means it’s a gigantic flop, or...
View ArticleLiberals Getting Hit With Obamacare Bills
A few choice quotes. The first from the LA Times: Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don’t like what they see. These middle-class consumers are staring...
View ArticleThe Obamacare Mandate: A Historical Comparison
Filed under: Government, Obamacare, Tax, taxes, Tea, Tyranny
View ArticleA Little More Backdoor Gun Control
Remember Obama’s 23 proposed executive orders/actions on guns? Two just happened. They’re listed in propaganda form at Whitehouse.gov. The first one is that folks who are purchasing National Firearms...
View ArticleField Day: Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Starting with a former president/lawyer talking about guns, from Katie Pavlich writing at bearingarms.com: During his speech at the 50th anniversary celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a...
View ArticleEffects of the Internet Sales Tax
We’ve talked about the push for an internet sales tax before, and some effects it’s going to have. And now we’re seeing some more of those effects: From the Miami Herald, about KC MO: KANSAS CITY, Mo....
View ArticleThe IRS Scandal By The Numbers
- This is one of the letters they’re referencing: Filed under: Barack Obama, Corruption, Democrats, Government, Leftists, Obama administration, Senate, Tax, taxes, Tyranny Tagged: IRS
View ArticleCalifornia Needs MOAR Money
From UT San Diego: California may have the nation’s highest sales tax, but it’s still not generating the revenue it should be to keep up with the state’s economic growth. A report released this week by...
View ArticleDemocrat Rep Keith Ellison On Finance
From Breitbart: We’re not broke. There’s plenty of money, it’s just the government doesn’t have it. The government has a right… the government and the people have a right to run the programs of the...
View ArticleLack of Candor, Kalkines and the Lerner Rule
From HotAir: Last month I seemed to anger some of my regular correspondents when I asked why IRS worker Lois Lerner was able to employ the 5th Amendment in the way she had. I was bothered by the way...
View ArticleIRS Sent $46,378,040 in Refunds to 23,994 Illegal Aliens at One House
Your government at work. Via CNS news: (CNSNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address...
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