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Category: Taxing the American Public
February 19, 2025
The goal – zero-based versus baseline
In case you don’t understand what’s going on right now here’s a rundown. I read an article this morning about what Trump and Musk are trying to do. I’m going to simplify it a little bit to make it easily understandable. It has to do with baseline budgeting versus zero-based budgeting. Each time congress puts […]
April 5, 2021
OMGosh! This is fabulous!
I’ve occasionally said (tongue in cheek) that illegal immigrants should be catapulted back over the border. We’ll be kind . . . we’ll even give them a parachute. This article has an even better plan! I love it! Time To Do That Which We Are Accused By Lindell Denham -April 5, 2021 Are you a ‘normal, […]
August 20, 2015
Daily Rant
Apparently Bernie Sanders is advocating a free bachelor’s degree for all and someone on Laissez Faire Capitalism posted a mocking cartoon. I took exception to Bernie Sanders’ socialistic thinking and posted this: This is so interesting. It speaks to a complete failure to understand economics and the mechanics of supply and demand. The question regarding […]
December 18, 2012
Rephrasing the argument
This morning the Tea Party’s Facebook feed has another “bad Obama” posting. Various conservative groups run this sort of thing almost weekly. The latest is a repeat of how “bad” Obama is because he vacations in Hawaii and he’s off to do it again soon and it costs $4 million and “ew, isn’t that horrible”. […]
July 31, 2012
Milton Friedman’s 100th
Today is Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. There are few people for whom I have as much respect, nor any I laud more frequently. In celebration of his birthday, I’d like to extend this idea. What if, in the process of writing new legislation, a short treatise was required that referenced all the prior related legislation, […]
June 16, 2012
Favorite news sources
In my RSS feed (I use Bloglines as I’m still boycotting Google) I have over 30 hard and soft news sources. I can get away with having this many because most don’t produce a lot of data daily. For example, one of my favorite singers, Diana Krall, adds concert dates every couple months. I subscribe […]
April 4, 2012
Assigning homework
If you’ve been following the news, you know SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) had hearings last week on three things involving the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act. On day one they heard arguments to determine if they could hear arguments . . . it was one of those “it’s a tax!”, “no, […]
March 17, 2012
Parasites
Have you had days when you didn’t feel particularly nice? I think we all do. Now that I’m older, I generally try to rein in the chaos-generating waves, where in the past I would have let my pencil fly. So, here is the kinder, gentler take on Sandra Fluke and the argument she’s put forth. […]
November 18, 2011
Hearings on tax reform
I watched the Senate’s hearing on “Could Tax Reform Boost Business Investment and Job Creation?“. It’s fascinating. I’ve noted the important parts below. Listen to any bits that interest you. There are four tax reform presenters (Entin, Stone, Mastromarco and Hanlon) and about a dozen lawmakers listening and answering questions. Each presenter has five minutes […]
November 8, 2011
DOS attack on HeritageAction?
One of the sites that’s doing a good job of highlighting the disparity between liberal spin and cold hard fact is the Heritage Foundation. I tried to get to their spin-off Heritage Action this morning and got a 503 (no server available) this morning. Denial of service attack was the first thing that came to […]
