Fact and Comment Fact And Comment 08.09.10, 6:00 PM ET Obama’s Soft-Core Socialism Despite White House goal to undo Reagan’s legacy, our 40th President may have the last laugh as Americans react badly to Obama’s big government bender.A comedian or satirist could not have come up with the recent scenario of Treasury Chief Timothy Geithner […]
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Neal Boortz: ObamaCare has stealth IRS bomb By Neal Boortz For The AJC 9:00 p.m. Friday, July 23, 2010 Now what was it that Princess Nancy Pelosi said? Oh, yeah, I remember. It was something to the effect that we were going to have to go ahead and pass ObamaCare so that we could see
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July 16, 2010 Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an
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JULY 17, 2010 Lost in Taxation The IRS’s vast new ObamaCare powers. If it seems as if the tax code was conceived by graphic artist M.C. Escher, wait until you meet the new and not improved Internal Revenue Service created by ObamaCare. What, you’re not already on a first-name basis with your local IRS agent?
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JULY 13, 2010 The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come. By BRIAN RIEDL President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting
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JULY 12, 2010 U.S. Weighs Tax That Has VAT of Political Trouble By JOHN D. MCKINNON At least 139 countries, including most major economies except the U.S., levy a value-added tax on goods and services. Amid swelling deficits, there are increasingly loud calls in Washington for adopting a value added tax. John McKinnon discusses. But
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AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM July 1, 2010 Six Months to Go Until The Largest Tax Hikes in History In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect. They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves beginning on January 1, 2011: First Wave: Expiration of 2001
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An interview of Governor Chris Christie by Wall Street Journal’s Paul Gigot http://online.wsj.com/video/opinion-journal-chris-christie-veto/761F7750-2032-400B-B085-43F0BB1D7EAF.html
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JULY 2, 2010 How some Republicans are preparing to walk right into it. “‘Next year when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country, I hope some of these folks who are hollering about deficits step up. Because I’m calling their bluff.” That was President Barack Obama, the heretofore unknown deficit hawk, all
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JUNE 26, 2010 The Keynesian Dead End Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style. Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start
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