Liberals like Chris Matthews mock conservatives when they point out that the left uses uber-radical Saul Alinsky’s scorched earth tactics in order to shove their statist agenda down our throats, but here is yet another case in point that shows that is precisely what they are doing. Dan Mitchell of Cato reports that the OECD has produced [...]
From Paul Caron: Media Matters Paid Former Domestic Partner $850k ‘Blackmail’ Settlement After Threat to Inform IRS: Fox News, Media Matters Boss Paid Former Partner $850k ‘Blackmail’ Settlement: Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS – a deal [...]
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I found something on Greg Mankiw‘s blog that seems to explain why so many Americans bought homes and signed mortgages they could not afford thereby causing the housing crisis: In today’s NY Times, Robert Shiller reports: Even after taking into account factors like income and education, the authors concluded that people with relatively high I.Q.’s typically [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics · The Economy
In a 2009 commencement address President Obama jokingly threatened to audit Arizona State University for not giving him an honorary degree on the grounds that his record was incomplete (he had been President for just two months). Now it appears there may have been more than a kernel of truth in the joke: Virginia Republican U.S. [...]
Tags: Politics of Taxes
The Weekly Standard via Instapundit: Tim Geithner says that because Americans are privileged to be Americans the rich should pay hire taxes: That’s the kind of balance you need. Why is that the case? Because if you don’t try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don’t ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to [...]
Tags: Philosophy · Politics of Taxes
“Bush’s main goal is to kill as many servicemen as possible.” – Cindy Sheehan – “My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny…you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for [...]
Tags: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments · News
Chris Christie’s in-your -face-I-don’t-take-no-crap-from-anyone schtick is getting old. If I hear him tell some John or Jane Doe to shut up and mind their own business again, I think I’ll lose a gasket. But Warren Buffett’s woe-is-me-I-am-so-undertaxed schtick has gotten even older. So, I was pleasantly pleased when I heard the rotund Governor smack down the octogenerian Ukelele player [...]
