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14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Gigot: Christie 'Think... · 0 replies · +4 points
15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Hoyer: Permanent middl... · 1 reply · +1 points
and 10 myths about the Bush tax cuts here ... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/...
One thing you'll note in the article ...
"In 2000, the top 60 percent of taxpayers paid 100 percent of all income taxes. The bottom 40 percent collectively paid no income taxes. Lawmakers writing the 2001 tax cuts faced quite a challenge in giving the bulk of the income tax savings to a population that was already paying no income taxes."
A good question ... how do you cut taxes for people who don't PAY taxes?
The article goes on to point out that "All in all, the number of tax filers with zero or negative income tax liability rose from 30 million to 40 million, or about 30 percent of all tax filers. The remaining 70 percent of tax filers received lower income tax rates, lower investment taxes, and lower estate taxes from the 2001 legislation."
Remember that when you hear that the Bush tax cuts were for the "rich".
15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Hoyer: Permanent middl... · 0 replies · +2 points
and 10 myths about the Bush tax cuts here... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/...
One thing you'll note in the article ...
"In 2000, the top 60 percent of taxpayers paid 100 percent of all income taxes. The bottom 40 percent collectively paid no income taxes. Lawmakers writing the 2001 tax cuts faced quite a challenge in giving the bulk of the income tax savings to a population that was already paying no income taxes."
A good question ... how do you cut taxes for people who don't PAY taxes?
The article goes on to point out that "All in all, the number of tax filers with zero or negative income tax liability rose from 30 million to 40 million, or about 30 percent of all tax filers. The remaining 70 percent of tax filers received lower income tax rates, lower investment taxes, and lower estate taxes from the 2001 legislation."
15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Hoyer: Permanent middl... · 1 reply · +4 points
Frankly I'd say spending a trillion on military power to keep my children safe is a far better investment than spending a trillion on phony pork-barrel projects and ending up with nothing more than a one-way, dead-end toll road in Orlando named after our marxist-in-chief.
16 years ago @ Big Government - ‘Emergency Education... · 0 replies · +1 points
16 years ago @ Big Government - Why We Should Support ... · 0 replies · +3 points
"IMMIGRATION: “Legal immigration has been a great source of strength and prosperity for America, but I believe illegal immigration threatens the foundation of this system. If I had been in the Senate at the time, I would have opposed the McCain-Kennedy bill. I believe we must fix our immigration system by first securing the border, fixing the visa and entry process and opposing amnesty in any reform.”"
It's clear he's basing his initial reaction to the AZ law from WHAT HE READ IN NEWS REPORTS, which we all know are spun and spun and spun. The fact is he's concerned about the position it puts law enforcement in and that it's possibly another avenue for government overreach. Personally, from all I've seen, he's solidly against amnesty in any form. Get the facts before jumping ship on a solid conservative.
It's no wonder the government is trying to regulate salt ... everything that comes out of this regime and the MSM need to be taken with a pound of it.
16 years ago @ Big Government - Why We Should Support ... · 1 reply · +2 points
"From what I have read in news reports, I do have concerns about this legislation. While I don’t believe Arizona’s policy was based on anything other than trying to get a handle on our broken borders, I think aspects of the law, especially that dealing with ‘reasonable suspicion,’ are going to put our law enforcement officers in an incredibly difficult position. It could also unreasonably single out people who are here legally, including many American citizens. Throughout American history and throughout this administration we have seen that when government is given an inch it takes a mile."
16 years ago @ Big Government - Obama’s Tangled Webs · 0 replies · +2 points
Letter to Geitner from Grassley ...
"The bottom line seems to be that the TARP loans were “repaid” with other TARP funds in a Treasury escrow account. The TARP loans were not repaid from money GM is earning selling cars, as GM and the Administration have claimed in their speeches, press releases and television commercials. "
16 years ago @ Big Government - Obama’s Tangled Webs · 1 reply · +3 points
If there are families behind every dollar traded or leveraged, what's behind every dollar confiscated in taxes?
16 years ago @ Big Government - White House Caught Alt... · 0 replies · +1 points
"Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. "
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