Taxes

Be Careful What You Wish For…

December 21, 2010

Well, the Republicans got their extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the upper income with passage of the $858 BillionTax Bill, but they may have got more than they bargained for. With the infusion of The Tea Party and the spending spree by the Democrats, they had temporarily shirked the stigma attached to the [...]

Tagged as: Commentary Butasforme, Federal Reserve, GOP and Bush-era tax cuts, GOP leadership, Inflation, Nassim Taleb, Reformed Liberal, Relationship between big government and large corporations, Tea Party, trickle down theory

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Congressional Seat In Minnesota 8th District May Be Up For Grabs By GOP

October 27, 2010

Congressman James Oberstar, veteran career politician of 48 years is in trouble. He just lost the endorsement of the largest newspaper in his area, The Duluth News-Tribune, for the first time in 30 years. Citing the lack of financial restraint by the incumbent, The Duluth News Tribune emphasized Oberstar’s rubber-stamp of Obama’s policies on cap [...]

Tagged as: 8th District Congressional Race In Minnesota, Attack Ads in Oberstar Campaign, Contributions for Oberstar Largely From Outside Sources, Infrastructure Monies, Oberstar In Tough Battle, Oberstar Loses Newspaper Endorsement, Polls Tightening Race Between Oberstar & Cravaack, Special Interest Monies Flowing Into Minnesota 8th Congressional District Race, Trying To Win Transportation Projects

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#1 Lesson In Governing America: You Cannot Serve Two Masters

October 3, 2010

MarketWatch’s Paul Ferrell warns that the nation is on the brink of facing anarchy by 2020 precipitated by the greed of Wall Street and other financial entities, gridlock from a leadership void that elects doctrinaires rather than visionaries, and a Second American Revolution ignited by class warfare between the haves and the rest of us. A bleak [...]

Tagged as: Anarcy Prediction for 2020, Class Warfare, Financial Institutions, Greed, Gridlock, MarketWatch, Paul Farrell, Second American Revolution

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Federal Reserve v. White House On Tax Policy

July 31, 2010

This past week, two Federal Reserve Members have candidly spoken out about current fears that the U.S. will slide into deflation similar to the one that Japan experienced in the 1990′s and one that continues to pose problems. Additionally, the Federal Reserve has concerns that raising taxes at this time will impact negatively on an [...]

Tagged as: Deflation v. Inflation, Federal Reserve of Dallas, Federal Reserve of St. Louis, Federal Reseve v.White House, James Bullard, Richard S Fisher, Seven Faces of Peril, Sluggish economy, tax cuts

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Top Secret America

July 25, 2010

FRONTLINE goes inside the Post’s two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11. WATCH:

Tagged as: C.I.A., Frontline, Newly Created Fourth Branch of U.S. Government, Post 911 Intelligence, Secret Government In U.S., Terrorism, Unlimited Tax Dollars Going To Secret Intelligence Agency, Washington Post

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Craig T. Nelson On Jay Leno “Maybe The American People Are Thinking About A Tax Revolt!” (VIDEO)

March 27, 2010

Tagged as: Craig T. Nelson, Craig T. Nelson on Jay Leno, Jay Leno

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To Become A Real Player In Reform, Tea Party Should Make Term Limits Its’ First Order Of Business

January 12, 2010

The Ohio Valley Tea Party has announced its’ formation as a political action committee in time for the upcoming election year. This will enable the group to raise money and support candidates for office. Although it’s still in the development stage, the potential of becoming a political party is there. To grow this grassroots movement into [...]

Tagged as: Campaign Reform, citizen legislators, fiscal responsibility by government, grassroots campaign, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, Lawyers and Government, lobbyists, Pelosi, Republican Contract With America, special interests, term limits, The Tea Party, Third Party, U.S. Congress

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Death Without Mourning

November 12, 2009

Tagged as: ARRA, Change To Believe In, Economic crisis, Economy, Health Care Reform, Main Street, Obama Administration, Reformed Liberal, Stimulus Package, Taxes, unemployment, Wall Street

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If A Deal Is Too Good To Be True—Cash For Clunkers

October 21, 2009

Remember the old adage? Well, those who bought into the Cash For Clunkers are going to have quite a surprise on the taxes. Posted from Janet Larson, Read More: Political Math…. Let’s do some good old fashion math, not the new fangled political math. Let us do the math using what we learned in school, [...]

Tagged as: Cash For Clunkers, Deal Or No Deal, Taxes Cash For Clunkers

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90 Days Until Christmas…

September 25, 2009

Television shopping networks are promoting the Holiday season as a way to recover from a lackluster Fall season, which was promoted early to recover from a disappointing Back-To-School promos, which were advertised in early summer to boost poor Summer Sales. Recovery? Maybe for the big wigs sitting behind their corporate desks while patting their lobbyists [...]

Tagged as: bailouts, butasforme.com, Christmas, Congress, economic recovery, FDIC, Geithner, Goldman-Sachs, higher education, Holiday Season, Obama, Reformed Liberal, sales, Small Businesses, state revenues, Taxes, unemployment

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