The blindness of the right is mindboggling at times. Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey has a post up entitled “Taxpayers to Obama: Keep your hands off our deductions”. Here’s what Ed says: In his speech on Wednesday, Barack Obama suggested that eliminating some tax deductions might be necessary to close the budget deficit, at […]
If Fred Phelps and his band of merry little hate mongers don’t boil your blood enough, check out this from Fox: Westboro has been accused of being a hate group, but one detail that has been largely overlooked is that, unlike most hate groups, this group is not required to pay taxes because of its […]
Yesterday morning Joe Scarborough was providing us with his infinite wisdom by declaring that Americans are mad because their taxes have gone up so much under Obama. Imagine how shocked I am to find out Scarborough is wrong about the tax issue: According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, the vast majority of […]
McCain wants to give more tax breaks to corporate America, but what about the corporations that pay nothing in taxes? Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 […]
Well imagine this. The Republicans are holding the lower class citizens hostage yet again: Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday. A package GOP leaders planned to bring to […]
To hear Bush talk you think he wants to get us off of foreign oil yet that is not the case. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is warning that funding to repair highways is going to be a victim of higher gas mileage and may require a new tax initiative – including taxing drivers per […]
The Boston Herald reports today that Exxon is expected to make more than $10 billion in profits for this quarter. Kind of nice for a company that has not felt the crunch of Hurricane Katrina like all other Americans are. Oil companies came under new fire yesterday when it emerged that ExxonMobil’s profits are likely […]
While the south cleans up from the catastrophe we call Katrina, I sit here in a soaked Ohio wondering what the President will do to help. The region is already high in the poverty level and the early estimates are at $26 billion in damage. They are saying as many as one million people could […]