From The White House Monday, President Obama made another stab at spreading the wealth around. Using the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, the wealth envy warrior is pushing what he calls the Paycheck Fairness Act. President Obama said . . . Now is the time for Congress to step up and pass the …
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It doesn’t do any good to know that the U.S. isn’t the only country blessed to have an economic imbecile as its president. France has one too! French President François Hollande said this during a state visit to Japan . . . You must understand that the crisis in the eurozone is over. If only to serve …
More than just a co-founder of the FairTax. Leo Linbeck, Jr. was a visionary and philanthropist. It was his efforts along with two other wealthy friends, Robert McNair and Jack Trotter, that shared the vision of a tax system that was fair, simple, transparent, and conducive to economic growth. Never before has anyone thought that a tax system, by …
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The hubris of supporters, media included, of the Affordable Health Care Act, aka Obamacare, never ceases to amaze me. It begins to look foolish when deception is combined with ignorance. Case in point is writers like these who demagogue the private health insurance industry, portraying them as greedy corporatist one-percenters. Their buzz words. Making money hand …
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The Dept of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was “adjusted” upwards by 4,500. In the last four weeks, 1,410,000 “workers” are out of work and have filed for unemployment. In the week ending June 1, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 346,000, a decrease of 11,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of …
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Under the FairTax, all the controversy in the news today, from IRS abuse, to tax favors, to tax punishments, will disappear. Gone! The immense size of the IRS? Gone! The immense cost of compliance to taxpayers? Gone! The term “take home pay” becomes obsolete. No more federal deductions. You take home everything you make. Can …
Having been caught violating the civil rights of thousands of Americans trying to assemble, contribute, and advocate a cause, the IRS scandal has been shut down. That, after all, was just symptomatic of the way liberals play politics. They don’t compete in the arena of ideas, they use the government to intimidate the political opposition. …
In defense of President Obama’s ignorance of what is going on in the Internal Revenue Service (and the State and Justice Departments), David Axelrod finds himself agreeing with what the Tea Party folks have said since the beginning of this administration. The only difference is Axlerod is attempting to excuse abuse by the embedded liberal …
Today the House is expected to vote on H.R. 45 – To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Regardless of what the Democrat-controlled Senate (53 D’s, 45 R’s, 2 I’s) does with it, at least Americans can see that their representatives in …
The DOL’s weekly update shows the unemployment rate fell .1 to 7.5%. This was not as a result of more people working however. It was a result of 835,000 people dropping out of the workforce. This is a case, as it has been since Obama became President, what looks like good news really isn’t. The …