December 5, 2013 – 8:55 am
Earl Blumenenauer is fed up with legislative gridlock or something (Politico) Rep. Earl Blumenauer has had enough. With some of the top players in next year’s transportation bill stuck in a staring contest over how to raise billions of dollars, the Democrat introduced two simple bills on Wednesday to address what he calls the upcoming […]
November 18, 2013 – 9:09 am
The delusion of the Warmists is on complete display in this opinion piece called Global warming pragmatism Economist Robert Pindyck of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently examined the computer models that estimate the effects and costs of climate change — and he didn’t like what he found. The models reflect two gaping uncertainties, he […]
November 6, 2013 – 10:58 am
This is what NYC citizens voted for (this is the prepared text as released) (NY Times) But let me be clear. Our work — all of our work — is really just beginning. And we have no illusions about the task that lies ahead. Tackling inequality isn’t easy; it never has been, and never will […]
October 13, 2013 – 9:46 am
The question is, is Mr. “I won’t negotiate” Obama using the notion of increased revenue as a way of blunting the demands from Republicans (and the American People who hate Obamacare), or is he simply demanding new revenue, ie, taxation, like he’s done before? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the latter. We’ve seen […]
July 16, 2013 – 8:33 am
They can exclaim whatever talking point they want, but in any tax reform debate it’s easy to see that Democrats hate The Government getting less money and citizens keeping more of what they earn (WRAL) Lawmakers and Gov. Pat McCrory struck a deal on tax reform Monday, ending a weeks-long impasse over how to rewrite […]
June 29, 2013 – 11:45 am
Not to get too far ahead, they tried this in 1986 with the Tax Reform Act, and that turned into the behemoth we have today (read Showdown at Gucci Gulch for the details) (Washington Post) The Senate’s chief tax writers plan to scrap the entire code and start from scratch in their push for tax […]
June 20, 2013 – 1:00 pm
In other words, she wants teachers to not pay their “fair share” (Raleigh N&O) Legislators rejected a suggestion from the elected state schools chief that the state exempt teachers from personal income taxes. June Atkinson, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction, told News & Observer editorial writers and reporters Monday that teachers should be exempt, […]
May 27, 2013 – 3:22 pm
Politico’s Kelsey Snell should read a different article on Politico about Sharyl Attkinson, who has been one of the few reporters willing to engage in Journalism, rather than hero worship like most of the rest of the media, and investigate the IRS scandal. Anyhow In the two weeks since the news surfaced that the Internal […]
May 12, 2013 – 8:51 am
Let’s jump way back in time to the beginning of the week. Some guy said this at a commencement ceremony PRESIDENT (NMP) OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices […]
April 26, 2013 – 10:38 am
Nope, not Obama this time. It’s Paul Krugman, who never met a Big Government spending scheme he didn’t like. He starts out by whining about “austerity” and saying it has failed, because we’ve had just so darned much! You know, with the ever increasing government expenditures, the massive Stimulus, son of Stimulus, 2nd cousin twice […]
