The Economic Policy Institute has released a chart showing the average overall tax rates in 1979, 1992 and 2007. The picture isn’t pretty. While the tax rate for you, me and the other 99% of this country has remained pretty much the same over the years, the tax rate for the top 1% has seen […]
Yesterday the Democrats released the outline for immigration reform, but there is something missing. The issue, which goes to the heart of the matter, is the hiring of illegal immigrants. Under current laws the fines for businesses that hire illegals is laughable. It’s such a small amount that the fines actually becoming nothing more than […]
Anytime you get a gathering of tea baggers it seems like people start seeing double (triple?). Conservatives4Palin proclaimed that 13,000-16,000 showed up at yesterday’s Boston tea bagging rally with queen bagger of the tea Sarah Palin. That’s an awful lot more than the 5,000 the AP is estimating the crowd at, or the 3,000 that […]
The Republicans are going on the warpath today with the “give to us and help us win this year so we can repeal health care”. How? How can they come up with enough votes to repeal health care. This wouldn’t be a simple “oh we got a majority and we repeal it”. It would take […]
With Obama claiming that he never campaigned for the public option a new probelm is presented – the “fix it later” argument. This comment by Obama has taken a lot of people by surprise. Even Ezra Klein, a strong bill backer, is calling the President’s bluff on this: Oy. I’ll defend the argument that the […]
And the failure in math from the right begins: After the 9/12 march on Washington, conservatives falsely claimed that over a million people attended, when in reality the closest thing to an official count — numbers given by the Washington DC Fire Department to ABCNews.com — placed the crowd at “approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people.” […]
I think this poll would make a great poster for the wingnuts “Boston Tea Party” protests this week. Show that only a slim majority, 64%, of the country wants to help home owners. Don’t people realize that in Republican math 36% beats 64%?
Seriously. The vice-President makes $208,000 a year. Palin’s two month spending spree cost $150,000. Doing the simple math, that comes out to $900,000 a year.. But that isn’t all. Now it turns out the McCain campaign spent $22,800 in only two weeks for Palin’s makeup stylist. Let’s do the math:Clothing and accessories $75,000 per monthMakeup: […]
Andrea Mitchell was on Morning Joe blaming Barack Obama for the bailout failing. Her argument is that he didn’t bring the Congressional Black Caucus on board to vote for it. She gets noticeably mad about this, despite the fact that Democrats delivered more votes than promise and the fact that the CBC was dead set […]
There is a major fight brewing in Washington state over the called race for McCain. I can’t remember a time when they stopped counting votes because a party chair figured out the winner, but that appears to be what’s happening: Esser said he declared McCain the winner after calculating what Huckabee would have to win […]