Category: Taxes

Weight of Taxation Is Heavier Than Most Know

Posted on by Dave Blount

The official unemployment numbers are downright comforting, compared to the actual total number of people who are unemployed. The same applies to the massive burden of taxation our moonbat rulers are inflicting on the economy. Duke University research scholar Christopher J. Conover explains: When the government taxes apples, people buy and sell fewer apples. That […]

 

The Lies States Peddle on Pension ‘Savings’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pensions are fast becoming the time bomb that will destroy the financial well being of our state budgets. Because public employee unions have been allowed to outrageously grow their retirement benefits by supplying billions in campaign donations to compliant politicians, most state pension plans are deeply in the hole. Many states have at last begun […]

 

Bob Etheridge’s Death Tax Flip Flop

Posted on by Renee Ellmers

How much has Congressman Etheridge changed since he went to Washington? A study last year found that repealing the “Death Tax” (also called estate or inheritance taxes) would create 42,000 North Carolina jobs. Without a death tax, small family businesses and farms wouldn’t have to be broken up and sold to pay taxes. When he […]

 

New The Hill Poll: 12 Freshman Democrat Held Districts Show Major GOP Gains

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Wednesday The Hill reported on a new poll it has conducted of the 2010 midterms with initial focus on 12 districts held by freshmen Democrats and the news isn’t good for those incumbent Dems scrutinized. On the other hand, the poll seems to show that it isn’t pat that Republicans will necessarily run away […]

 

Colorado: Art Depicting Christ in Gay Sex Causes Christians to Riot, Many Killed… Or Not

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An art exhibit sponsored by the City of Loveland, Colorado that depicts Jesus Christ engaging in gay sex is causing some heartburn among local Christians. The piece by a 10-artist group going under the title, “The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink,” depicts Jesus receiving oral sex from a man. Christian groups have […]

 

U of Chicago Prof Says His $400,000 Salary Is Taxed Too Much

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

University professors so often get the reputation of being ivory tower pinheads sheltered from real life and out of touch with reality. Professor Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago sure didn’t help change that perception when he posted a blog post detailing how Obama’s tax hikes will hurt and that his combined family income […]

 

After Denial, Anti-American Faculty of UIC to Fight For Bill Ayers’s Emeritus Status

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The leaders of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago are weighing whether they will wade into the fray and come to the aid of a terrorist. Last week the board of UIC denied domestic terrorist and close Obama confidant William Ayers the emeritus status he sought upon his retirement. The reason he […]

 

Etheridge Casts Deciding Vote for Higher Taxes

Posted on by Renee Ellmers

Yesterday, Bob Etheridge had a chance to vote against a tax increase. He didn’t. Then, he put an ad on TV accusing me of wanting to raise taxes. Here’s what happened.:  On January 1st, every American income tax payer faces a tax increase. Millions of small businesses also face a tax increase and anyone who […]

 

As Obama Pretends at Its Freedom, His Gov’t Plans Takeover of Internet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Sept. 23, President Obama pledged to preserve a “free and open Internet” and would call out nations that censored content. In a veiled reference to China and other nations that censor the Internet, Obama said that a civil society fosters open government. “Civil society is the […]

 

The Coming Staples Mausoleum/Stadium

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as supporters claim they won’t need subsidies, it is more likely that L.A. is about to plunge itself forever into debt with a new stadium, the Staples Center. A look at just about any other convention center, or stadium in the country easily shows that these projects seldom pay for themselves as builders insist […]

 

Video: $20 Mil Wasted on Obama Propaganda Signs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

All hail the Obammessiah, the savior of our jobs… well, at least $20 million went to a few sign makers so that Obama could pretend that he saved folk’s jobs, anyway. You can help shine a light on this wasteful federal spending by taking a photo of an Obama propaganda sign on the side of […]

 

Report: 9/12 Rally At D.C.’s Capitol Hill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(I am finally back home where I can get to my photo editing software, so this report is a few hours late, but…) Over 50,000 patriotic Americans attended the 2010 edition of Freedom Works’s 9/12 March on the Capitol. Americans from all over the country attended and I below have a few particularly interesting stories […]

 

Stadium Deal in LA a Moneypit

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Whenever I think of this new Staples sports stadium deal going down in Los Angeles I can’t help but think of the “bread and circuses” that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the City of L.A. sinking millions into this entertainment project leaving the people destitute and all for what? After […]

 

Members of Oregon’s State Employee Unions Get 5% Pay Raises… as Taxpayers Lose Jobs!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Unbelievable. In Oregon the reg’lar folks are losing their jobs right and left. And the bad luck for those actually paying the bills, the taxpayers, gets even worse because Oregon’s politicians have made sure that the state’s public employees unions get an automatic 5% pay raise starting this Wednesday! 5 percent […]

 

Philly Wants Bloggers to Pay $300 Tax

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Are you a blogger in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? Do you have Google Adsense or some other sort of low-return ads on your blog? If so expect a letter soon from your friendly city treasurer demanding that you pay a $300 tax on your “money making business.” For most people that maintain an active […]

 

Video: How Teachers Unions Abuse Non-Union Teacher Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the Independent Teachers for Colorado blog… Check out this new Independent Teachers video about what happens when a non-union school employee who is forced to opt out of paying union fees every year misses the deadline because of family medical emergencies: Due to family medical hardships, non-union Pueblo school employee Becky Robertson missed an […]

 

Welfare Bureaucrats Swarm Like Locusts Upon The States

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Tapscott has an odd idea of a fun time, but I’m glad he does. He was casually tooling through the info posted on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau and decided to see how many welfare bureaucrats there were working in the states. I know, I know, Tapscott needs to take up bowling […]

 

Happy Cost of Government Day, America!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every year Americans for Ta Reform announces the day when the average American has finally finished paying his share of the cost of government and every year it seems to occur later in the year. This year the date has been pinpointed as today, August 19. (Download study HERE) Imagine that, folks. We now work […]

 

For the Third Time Obama Gives Unions A Break From Transparency Rules

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Obama administration and the Democrat Party has yet again instituted new rules to allow unions to get out of having to report their financial doings to the federal government by again rolling back reporting requirements. Obviously as far as Obama is concerned “transparency” is one of those things that only enemies should be forced […]

 

The Tax Left-Wing Professors Act

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Lileks of the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently had a brilliant idea. Let’s tax tenured professors at a higher rate than everyone else. And how could they complain? After all, these left-wing, communist sympathizers are always saying everyone should pay more taxes. How could they complain about being called to “pay their fair share”? Lileks […]

 

$26.1 Billion Union Bailout Went to States that Didn’t Need it

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I mentioned in a previous discussion on the Democrats $26.1 billion bailout for unions that Speaker Pelosi pushed through Congress at the last minute this summer, there was no need for the money for the stated purpose of “saving teachers” jobs. After all many states still had $30 billion of the previous stimulus that […]

 

Toilet Paper ‘Down Under’ To Cost More Thanks To Green Policies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First the greenies came to take away our lightbulbs in the U.S. and force us to buy more expensive ones. Now the greenies are on the march in Australia with the unkindest swipe of all: forcing Australians to pay 42 percent more for toilet paper. In a report recently put out by Tim Wilson of […]

 

Paul Krugman: You Anti-Government Folks Are To Blame For State/Local Money Problems

Posted on by William Teach

If it’s a day ending in a “y”, it must be a day where an inside the beltway mentality liberal is making an absurd argument, casting blame, naming problems, but, unable to provide any rationale for his/her solutions. Over at Powerline, Paul eviscerates Excitable Matthew Yglesias over Matty’s ridiculous “Summer of Fear” opinion piece in […]

 

As They Live off Us, Some Federal Workers Pocket Fraudulent SS Benefits

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News has emerged today of an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has discovered hundreds of federal workers who are pocketing fraudulent Social Security disability payments. This is doubly galling, to say the least. Not only are these federal workers living off we the taxpayers, but now they are stealing from us outright. […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Exempt Rich People in Blue States From Tax Hike!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If this doesn’t exemplify the left’s propensity to act in the mode of for-thee-but-not-me, nothing does. The Wall Street Journal (by way of the Wash. Examiner’s Mark Hemingway) reports that at least one Democrat has suddenly realized that when the Bush tax cuts fade away his state will be hit by a massive tax hike […]

 

Dingy Harry Plans Tax Cuts Showdown For September

Posted on by William Teach

Either Harry Reid has something up his sleeve, or, he is the dumbest Democrat leader ever to put an issue with which Democrats are always on the wrong side of the American people at the forefront right before elections Senate Democrats will hold a September showdown over trillions of dollars in expiring tax cuts passed […]

 

Even The Left Getting Tired of Teachers Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An interesting article appeared in the Chicago Tribune lamenting the fact that teachers unions are standing in the way of good education for our kids by constantly and in knee-jerk fashion opposing school reform efforts all across the country. Penned by the Tribune’s Leonard Pitts, no arch righty he, the piece scolds teachers unions and […]

 

Letting The Bush Tax Cuts Expire Will Only Hurt The Rich, Right?

Posted on by William Teach

As we head deeper into the silly season, which occurs every two years, it appears as if one of the cute little liberal talking points about the tax cuts of 2001/2003 were only for the rich has truly rotted liberals brains. Facts are pesky things which, after all these years, still elude liberals, and now […]

 

No Bias Zone: ‘Journalist’ Calls Tea Parties ‘Right-Wing Bloodfeasts’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of my early blogging assignments was the media bias beat over at Newsbusters, so I became particularly attuned to picking up on how the Old Media toes that “unbiased” journalistic line. Unfortunately, in sometimes subtle ways their rhetoric is geared to smear Republicans in any way possible. Here is a perfect example. Last week […]