taxes

    CAGW “Waste Watch” Pork Book Out, in Case You Follow Your Taxes

    By: renny (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 08:49 PM  | 

    Awards go to Diane Watson (D-CA)–Lights! Cameras! Earmarks!  for $100,000 for at-risk youths to explore film careers (Oliver Stone hasn’t created enough of his own American history) Kudos to Tom Harken (D-IA)–Narcissist Award for $7,000,000 for the Tom Harkin Grant program (I thought we only named things after people when they were dead) Jekyll and Hyde Statuette to Leonard Lange (R-NJ–a state after my own heart) for | Read More »

    We should drill off the New Jersey Coast

    By: renny (Diary)  |  June 21st at 10:56 AM  | 

    Unlike many states, New Jersey has refineries, pipeline infrastructure, and natural gas storage that would promote and sustain an expanded energy industry in this state. In the 1970s, Texaco was exploring for natural gas off (far off) the Atlantic City coast, but those probes were terminated when Congress in the 1980s banned continental shelf drilling. New Jersey has a $10 billion state budget deficit, the | Read More »

    $150/$250 health care tax starts in 2011

    By: renny (Diary)  |  April 18th at 07:51 AM  | 

    According to a Washington Times editorial April 1, Obamanationcare institutes a month “charge” for long-term health care of $150/$250 a month in 2011 (unless you opt out). If you remember, 2011 is also the year the Bush tax cuts elapse and, according to the Wall Street Journal, could cost a family of 4 making $75,000, up to $2500 a year. Let’s see, $250 a month | Read More »