taxes

    Obama’s Business Blackmail

    By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  April 26th at 06:32 PM  | 

    Business leaders better kowtow to the Obama administration or else his bureaucrats will cut off the company’s ability to do business with the government. Since the government controls so many industries now, through regulations, threats and other means, these actions can destroy private companies. The Wall Street Journal’s Alicia Mundy reports that business leaders are anxious over this development: A government attempt to oust a | Read More »

    Scott Brown’s Common Sense: A Tax Receipt

    By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  March 9th at 08:55 AM  | 

    Good ideas sometimes take a while to ripen in Washington, D.C. such as Andrew Langer’s 2008 idea to send taxpayers a receipt of what their dollars bought: “We believe that the government ought to provide a receipt to each taxpayer in October of every year — a note of thanks detailing the total amount in federal income taxes paid by the filer for the prior | Read More »

    Rebuilding The Republican Reputation

    By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 09:42 AM  | 

    After betraying the American trust in the Republican brand, Americans booted Republicans from power in 2006. The Republicans flopped around ignoring the obvious. So Americans booted them again in 2008. Republicans still didn’t get it. They picked moderate mealy-mouthed candidates. So, the Tea Party picked new ones and pushed back against a recalcitrant Republican party. What didn’t they get? Republicans didn’t get that by expanding | Read More »