Here’s a Good Budget Compromise: Apply the “Fairness” Doctrine to PBS and NPR

By: timelyrenewed (Diary)  |  March 31st at 01:01 AM  | 

One of the arguments in the current budget battle is over funding for public broadcasting, which fiscal conservative Republicans want to cut and Democrats and RINOs want to keep.  Separate from the budget battle but still very active at the present time is the argument over the so-called “fairness” doctrine.  This is the view that anyone with a broadcast license can be required to give | Read More »

Where Dems get their definition of who is “rich”

By: timelyrenewed (Diary)  |  February 17th at 07:38 PM  | 

President Obama’s new budget again proposes raising the tax rates for the “rich” people who make over $200,000 a year (singles) or $250,000 a year (marrieds).  Capital gains and Medicare payroll taxes would also rise for these horrible rich people, and their deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, property taxes, sales taxes, state and local income taxes, medical expenses, and employee business expenses would be | Read More »