Tax Rates

    Backward To The Future!

    By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  November 20th at 01:57 PM  | 

    Ah, the 1950’s – a quaint decade of peace and prosperity. We compare it the 60’s, and mourn our nation’s lost hygiene, oops I mean innocence. Ok, so maybe that sort of nostalgia is overblown and a wee tad derogatory. Yet Dwight Eisenhower warned us of America turning into Amerika and we just didn’t get it. So Paul Krugman rides again to sell us his typically origami* version of economic events.

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    Hill poll: American electorate apparently *not* addicted to soaking rich.

    By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 27th at 08:00 PM  | 

    The most immediate thing to take away from this Hill poll is what the article on the subject leads with: which is, that something like three-fourths of the American electorate thinks that that the tax rate for the wealthy should be lower than it actually is (about the same proportion has a similar attitude towards similar tax rates for corporations). So far, so good – | Read More »

    Haley Barbour: ‘Let’s Get This Done’

    By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  November 8th at 03:30 PM  | 

    A year before the 2012 election, the good folks at American Crossroads released a terrific new video featuring Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to remind us of the importance of this presidential election. In the video, Governor Barbour, talks about what a second Obama term would mean for America: “[Obama’s] policies aren’t fixing our problems, they’re making them worse. And a second Obama term means making | Read More »