Does anyone get the feeling that the government wants to tax literally everything? The Federal Trade Commission wants to tax online news resources like HuffPo and Drudge and give the money to the outdated and nearly useless print media. Just like town criers or buggy-whip makers going out of business, their day has passed...
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President Obama screws up and tells the truth. Finally. In a speech made in Quincy, Illinois, President Obama revealed a part of what he really believes and it should scare the crap out of every hard-working American in the country. Going off the teleprompter projected speech at one point, the President regurgitated the following...
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OK. It might have been here for a while, but now they’re not even hiding theutterly stupid, absolutely criminal behavior in DC. From Reuters… Volcker: Taxes likely to rise eventually to tame deficit The United States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax,...
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Sometimes the truth just slips out, like the Barney Frank blather posted last week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton steps it up during high-level talks in Pakistan: “We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move.” Really? I hadn’t noticed. What I did notice is that it’s starting to look like not such a good...
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