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The Book Of Obama

February 3, 2012

President Obama says Jesus wants to raise taxes: "When I talk about shared responsibility, it's because I genuinely believe that in a time when many folks are struggling and at a time when we have enormous deficits, it's hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or [...]

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Warren Buffett, His Secretary, And The Great Prevaricator

January 29, 2012

Our President, the Great Prevaricator, likes to mislead people. I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise. That's what prevaricators do, they mislead. Obama's statements about who pays their "fair share" of taxes have received lots of press, as have Obama's statements about billionaire Warren Buffett paying less in taxes than his secretary. Let's examine these [...]

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A Tax Loophole Worth Closing

January 18, 2012

According to ABC News, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said he "probably" pays about 15% in federal incomes taxes: Romney said he “probably” pays only about 15 percent in federal taxes because most of his earnings come from capital gains, which is taxed at a lower rate than traditional income. This means the super wealthy [...]

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No-bama

January 16, 2012

In trying to decide who should be our next President, we first have to ask if our current President deserves a second term. This should be based upon his performance in office, not on the political party to which he belongs. Does Obama deserve a second term ? Let's look at his record. I have [...]

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The Strange Payroll Tax Debate

December 22, 2011

President Obama is urging Republicans to pass a two-month extension compromise of his payroll tax cut. From the White House: In the afternoon, the President will continue to urge House Republicans to do what’s right for the American people by allowing a vote on the short term bipartisan compromise passed by almost the entire Senate. [...]

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The Tea Party Budget

December 4, 2011

Four months ago, one of the largest Tea Party groups, Freedomworks, created a Tea Party Debt Commission to address the red ink in which this country is drowning. Because our current non-leader is doing nothing but fiddling while Rome burns, I'm happy to present the results of the Tea Party's work, the Tea Party Budget. [...]

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Send Your Money To Me, Barack Obama

November 3, 2011

Every person in the country must immediately send President Obama an additional $650 !!! And then y'all have to keep sending that much or more to Obama every single month. That's how much additional tax money it will take for us to cover the $203 billion federal debt increase for October 2011. Y'all have that [...]

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A Very Brief Supply Side Defense

November 2, 2011

The United States has been reducing tax rates for the last 40-50 years. Here's a chart of the top marginal tax rates over time: As you can see, individual income tax rates, corporate income tax rates, and capital gains tax rates have dropped sharply through the years. All these rates are much lower than they [...]

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Fair Shares and Phantom Cuts

September 20, 2011

"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. "That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that." – Barack Obama, on monday. Yes, it would be hard to argue against that…if it was the truth. But it's not the truth. Our President is a big fat liar. Here's AP Factcheck: President Barack Obama [...]

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The Forgotten Man

September 14, 2011

My PC crashed the day before Obama's "jobs" speech, where we discovered that our spendthrift President wants to fork over another $450 billion in hard-earned taxpayer cash for Stimulus II, the American Jobs Act. Because the federal government doesn't actually pay for anything anymore, the bill for Obama's latest spend-o-rama will come due on some [...]

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Shared Stupidity

August 15, 2011

President Obama talks about closing corporate tax loopholes and taxing companies who move profits offshore. He calls this 'shared sacrifice". This kind of talk makes for a good class warfare political talking point, and Obama repeats this kind of stuff endlessly, but there's much Obama fails to tell us. Some of what Obama conveniently forgets [...]

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Quotes From The Political Circus

July 21, 2011

I found the following current event quotes on The Patriot Post. Insane The New Sane: "The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. … [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it [...]

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