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Entries from April 2012

The Rich Got Richer and So Did Everybody Else

April 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Income equalitarians like President Obama really don’t want to hear that the incomes of the poor and middle class rise when those of the rich rise because it destroys their argument that the rich are benefiting at the expense of the lower classes. Cornell has conducted a study that says just that, once again giving [...]

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Tags: Politics · Politics of Taxes

The Left’s Obsession with Income Inequality

April 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off

“A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.” – Samuel Johnson – Holman Jenkins, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal in The Inequality Obsession echoes what I have been saying about the left’s obsession with income inequality: If it were learned that the car driven [...]

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Tags: Politics of Taxes

Taxes Kill People

April 12th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Leroy Baker of Tax News. Com reports that car crash deaths increase on tax filing  day. The Journal of American Medical Association did a study and found that traffic deaths have increased an average of 6% each tax filing day for the last thirty years. If it’s fair to say that Republicans want to push [...]

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Tags: Satire · Tax Humor