Category Archives: taxes

Almost 50% don’t pay taxes

That’s a problem. This isn’t new information but what the heh. As Darren points out…. There are too many people voting on what to do with somebody else’s money and that’s not sustainable.

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Eventually the government will have to print money

When no one’s left to tax and they have bills to pay, who ya gonna call? More on higher taxes over at Powerline (where I “stole” the above graph). That is simply ridiculous. It is questionable whether democracy can survive … Continue reading

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Tax on millionaires for Obamacare

A 5.4% surtax on people making more than $1 million per year!! This will give us Universal Healthcare. The powers that be (well I really mean the idiot Democrats in congress), better hope these millionaires, who are probably pretty smart … Continue reading

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More good news…

Cap and trade postponed in the senate! Blame it on popularity, or lack therof… Two weeks ago, when the House barely pushed this through a vote, Barack Obama’s poll numbers still looked good enough to imply that there may not … Continue reading

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A billion here, a billion there…

House Health-Care Proposal Adds $600 Billion in Taxes Does our healthcare system need an overhaul? No question. Give me private interprise everyday. Unfortunately, or fortunately if your an Obama liberal/progressive, a sense of entitlement has been fostered among many of … Continue reading

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Fatigued

California voters that is, just ask California Speaker of the State Assembly Karen Bass. Here, listen to her yourself… This is the message that Ms. Bass received… This is too complicated. We don’t want to vote on it. We are … Continue reading

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Special election landslide

Darren points out how great yesterdays landslide was in the California special election. We had a special election yesterday, and the results have astounded me. I’ve never seen anything like this. How much you wanna bet the politicians still don’t … Continue reading

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California special election results

Finding the results of this election is not easy. Frustrating. Perhaps it’s because I’m in a hurry? Below are the results, which I don’t feel like taking the energy to format. You can view them here. Basically the citizens that … Continue reading

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California tax referendum

California needs money, or at least their politicians think the the state does. Well, it must be time to to tax the citizens. Unfortunately for the politicians, the citizens get to vote on the taxes… next Tuesday. The only one … Continue reading

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Coming soon to a newspaper near you

In Washington state, tax cuts for newspapers, printers and publishers. Also, Daily Camera will soon start charging for some web content. h/t to Erika, although the link on her twitter site no longer works.

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Intervention and structural imbalance

Spending money they don’t have. The two key words in that sentence are “structural imbalance.” Sounds like something beyond the ability of mere mortals to change, doesn’t it? Part of the natural order, kind of like the swine flu. It … Continue reading

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Boulderites tax payments at all time high

Following Dr. Helen’s logic, Boulderites should have paid out record amounts to the Federal government this tax season!

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Spend, then tax

With the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year. Hell, with “hope and change” we really have the government … Continue reading

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Taxing their way to prosperity

Hope it works! Well, actually I don’t.

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Get your mail ordering done now!

Looks like Congress will be closing the mail order tax loophole soon. Can Boulder be far behind with rapidly declining sales tax revenues? H/T to Instapundit

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Tea party Republican smackdown

Michelle documents California GOP chair Ron Nehring being “smacked down” at the Sacramento Tea Party. This movement is not as simple minded as many believe. Doesn’t mean it won’t die, but it has the potential to be more broad based … Continue reading

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The Deficit

The two graphs below depicting decline in tax receipts and the increase in government spending as a percentage of income (tax receipts) are produced from this U.S. Treasury data. The graph below depicts government spending as a % of income … Continue reading

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Tea Party updates

Get your updates at Tax Day Tea Party.

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Tea Party invite

H/T to Michelle Malkin.

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How far will patriotism take us?

See more here…. The administration should hope these top producers don’t go “John Galt” on them. One other interesting factoid, the tax code contains 3,700,000 words. That’s a lot btw.

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