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The Left lashes out at Lefty
Phil Mickelson produces a unique product: entertainment. He is a renown professional golfer famous for manufacturing some of the most spectacular golf shots in history. Take the 2010 Masters. It was the final round of this, the most prestigious golf tournament in the world. He had been behind the entire tournament until the 12th hole when he finally took the lead. And then it look like he blew it on the next …
Read MoreA triumph of cynicism
Here’s how the fiscal cliff wrangling looks to me. The government is going to seize (tax) an extra $65 billion a year from successful small business owners earning over $400,000 and redistribute it to politically-connected businesses in the guise of tax breaks. Crony capitalism continues to flourish under the Obama administration.
Read MoreTest your knowledge of America’s financial health
By Tom Quiner 1. President Obama’s solution to our deficits and national debt is to increase taxes on productive Americans who earn over $250,000. If he gets his way, how long would these new taxes fund our federal government? a. 200 years b. 200 weeks c. 200 hours d. 200 seconds 2. How much money…
Read MoreIn the name of sanity, Washington, stop spending our money so irresponsibly
If numbers make your head swim, look at this chart. I have simplified government spending in a way that is comprehensible in a glance …
Read MorePresident Kennedy advises President Obama
By John F. Kennedy “Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our [needs] keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce…
Read MoreHow to give Obama what he wants
Imagine the pressure the president and his party could put on those recalcitrant House Republicans if Senate Democrats passed the president’s plan. Nothing can stop them from doing so. They have the votes. Nothing can stop them, except for …
Read MoreObama vs. Obama
By Tom Quiner They key to everything, according to the president, is a tax hike on successful small businesses (aka the rich). He will not budge. Harry Reid agrees, saying that a tax hike on folks earning more than a quarter million a year is our salvation: “They’ve got to come [up] with some specific…
Read MoreBush cut taxes. The rich paid more.
True of false: the rich aren’t paying their fair share of taxes?
Read More2 practical reasons for Republicans to oppose new taxes
The heat is on. The liberal power structure is screaming for Republicans to go along with tax increases on the rich. There are two practical reasons they should demur:
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