Obama paints himself as a hero in so-called tax cut “compromise”
Well, we shouldn’t expect much else from the guy who promised as a candidate to heal the planet, should we? Via Fox News:
November’s Porkers of the Month
We have joint winners for this month’s Porker Award from Citizens Against Government Waste and Reason.TV: Senators Tom Carper (D) of Delaware and George Voinovich (R) of Ohio, who want to raise the federal gasoline tax 135% so they and their buddies can use even more of the Highway Trust Fund for purposes for which it was never intended, such as hovercrafts.
Voting with our feet
One of the functions of the decennial census is to determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives. While this doesn’t enable us to determine in detail who is moving where and why, one can make a few broad generalizations with some confidence based on the likely apportionment.
Gray Davis: Jerry Brown will try to raise taxes
That’s the informed opinion of California’s former (and reviled) governor about the likely future under the Once and (maybe) Future Governor. From the Fresno Bee:
An easy way to balance the budget without tax increases
The current deficit of the United States -the difference between the federal government’s expenditures and its revenues- is roughly 1.3 trillion dollars, according to the Department of Commerce. That’s how much the government has to borrow in order to finance crucial services, such as Barbara Boxer’s research trips. Members of the Statist Democratic Party tell us that the only way to close this deficit is to raise taxes, whether through higher levies on “the rich” (the definition of which is rather broad) or some form of a value-added tax on top of everything else, or a combination of both.