Then what?
What happens when there’s not enough tax revenue to cover the grand designs of our ascendant socialists?
Tagged: Taxes
The Biden presidency will be costly – to Democrats.
As we said in this space after the 2020 election, Trumpism is here to stay no matter what happens to Trump.
Days of merry and bright.
Christmas is the season of miracles and we should thus remember that the American economy is capable of miracles if left unshackled by taxes, regulation and the incessant meddling of power hungry, vote pandering politicians.
Ignorant or dishonest?
Tax revenues go up even as tax rates go down? It’s a puzzlement to Democrats.
Fleeing the Land of Lincoln.
It seems that folks are fleeing Illinois in droves – more than 71,000 net out-migration since 2016.
It really is a simple choice.
Who can better deploy the fruits of American enterprise – the federal government or those who actually produce the fruit?
GE to Connecticut: It may be time for us to go.
CEO Jeff Immelt announced that GE has formed an “exploratory team” to consider moving its corporate headquarters out of Connecticut to a state with a “more pro-business environment.”
What this conservative believes.
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. Therefore I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in the duty of self help and in the freedom that flows from self-reliance.
Feeding His flock.
Recently, in an apostolic statement Pope Francis said, in effect, that capitalism is OK with him on the condition that we feed the poor. I say, with all deference to the Holy Father, that we can feed the poor only on the condition that we have capitalism.
Are you your neighbor’s (yard) keeper?
Conservatives believe in the sanctity of individual property rights. Liberals believe that those who are well off should be compelled to forfeit wealth for the greater good.
Memo to GOP: Become the high-growth party.
It is always a mistake to underestimate the problem-solving capacity of a robustly growing American economy. Yet Republicans argue with Democrats as if our current sluggish economy is the best we can do. It’s not.
We’re getting the Medicare we deserve.
On Monday, the 2012 Trustees Report on Medicare was released and the news isn’t as bad as you might think. It’s worse.
Romney’s rock and hard place.
Romney has already disclosed that his effective tax rate is about 15 percent, well below the rate that most middle class taxpayers pay. On the strength of that disclosure, the demagoguery is on, little of it having any connection to facts.
Cuban on taxes. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban caused a stir earlier this week on his blog. He opined that paying taxes is, “the most patriotic thing you can do.”
Uninformed populist drivel.
Were it not for those greedy private jet owners refusing to pay their “fair share” of taxes America could solve its deficit and debt problems. So says the Demagouger-in-Chief as he avoids actually addressing the problem.
Texas creates jobs. Liberals condescend.
For ruling-class elites, there is nothing to recommend Texas. It is a miserable, Red State, George W. Bush-spawning hell-on-earth. So how, then, do they explain job numbers just released by the federal government?
S&P’s shot across the bow.
Yesterday, Standard & Poor’s issued a negative outlook on the sovereign debt of the United States. Thus the U.S. joins an ignominious pantheon of bankrupt companies and failed socialist states.
Our Decision Point.
Former President Bush has emerged from near total media seclusion for the purpose of promoting his new book called “Decision Points.”
The American (after tax) generosity machine.
Earlier this week on Tuesday morning, the top folks at Trinity Mother Frances Health System in Tyler hosted a breakfast for the purpose of making a big announcement.
The 50-year Tug-of-War.
Since 1960, the country has been in a tug-of-war between those on the right that believe that one can only be truly free when one accepts full responsibility for one’s own life…