Posts Tagged ‘tax’

Obama’s Nontax Is Defined as a Tax

Posted by Taylor on September 24th, 2009 under Democrat, Economics, Healthcare, Obama Tags: , , , ,  •  1 Comment

You have probably heard about Obama arguing that the individual mandate is not a tax.  Well, this is just one more example of why Obama has no real clue about what is in the bill.  Here is what the Baucus bill actually says about the penalty for not complying with the mandate.  See it for [...]

Newest Fairness Numbers Courtesy of the IRS

Posted by Taylor on July 30th, 2009 under Economics, Healthcare, Taxes Tags: , , , ,  •  2 Comments

I hate it when people don’t pay their fair share of taxes.  The top 1%, those making over $410,000 a year only paid 40.4% of the income taxes collected by the IRS.  All of the taxpayers in the bottom 95% combined paid only 39.4%.  That means 1.4 million people pay more than 134 million people [...]

Corrupt Collusion

Posted by Eric B. on March 20th, 2009 under Economics, Small Government, Taxes Tags: , , , , ,  •  3 Comments

For the last eight years, everyone has been discussing the far-reaching use of “executive power” by Bush and whether or not he overstepped its limits.  But what about the misuse of power when the executive and legislative branches collude? 
I’m extremely disturbed by the Bonus Tax Bill that the House passed yesterday.  It stipulates that any [...]