Andrew Tobias has a brilliant article about taxes. You should read the whole thing, but if you’re too lazy, here’s just the start of it: Be honest: Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax? Or (b) the fear of further losses? […]
John Hodgman provides a few easy steps to recovery:
One of the interesting ironies about the economic stimulus bill that just passed is that by most any measure it is the largest tax cut in US history. It includes $282 billion in tax cuts over two years. In comparison, Bush’s largest tax cuts (in 2004/2005) totaled $231 billion. So why did the Republicans just […]
Two days ago I posted a story about a Republican Congressman who claimed that FDR caused the Great Depression though his deficit spending (“borrow and spend”) — which would have been a neat time-travel trick since FDR didn’t get elected until almost four years after the Great Depression started. But as we know, most “big […]
According to Ohio Republican Congress-critter Steve Austria, FDR caused the Great Depression: When [President Franklin] Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history. Unfortunately for the Republican version […]
Is this comic satire like the original Obama New Yorker cover, or is it really arguing that the Stimulus bill is socialism? You decide! © Mike Lester
My head is spinning because of an email that Mike Huckabee sent out to his followers that claims that the economic stimulus bill is “anti-religious”. His gripe is that the bill prohibits higher education construction grants to be used for “… modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities — used for sectarian instruction, religious worship … […]
Watching Obama’s press conference last night got me thinking again about the whole issue of bipartisanship. I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is pretty simple. First, one of the biggest issues in the last election was the economy. When businesses started to fail and people started losing jobs, McCain’s poll numbers went down […]
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