Tag: economics
member name: Charles Temm JR
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September 05, 2007 03:20 PM EDT --
House Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) has proposed to increase federal gas taxes 5 cents a gallon. Meanwhile in the Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep John . . .
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April 07, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
Though not well known outside of political and economic history circles, Frederic Bastiat has been proven right time after time in his observances of the world. One of his better known observances . . .
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July 03, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
The Citizens Against Government Waste select their June winner for the raping of the Treasury. Doubtless of course, the noise about this particular winner will be muted because of his affialtion. . . .
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August 11, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
The percentage of Americans who actually pay any income tax (not social security/medicare/state-local taxes) after earned income and various other credits is dropping every year.
With fewer . . .
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May 21, 2009 06:17 PM EDT --
For those of us that are a bit older, rants from Russian papers were inevitably anti American or at least anti US government policy. Times sure have changed though when we have become the butt of . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
Its been some 70 plus years but New Deal rules still impact the economy. No, I'm not talking about the big ones on labor, utility etc sectors. What I'm talking about here involves the . . .
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September 18, 2007 12:39 PM EDT --
Couple of quick things I came across in the my readings lately...
Andrew Stern, head of the Service Employees Union, is trying to get Repubs to talk to to his members. Almost a quarter of them are . . .
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September 13, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
As those who have read up on the often secretive world of Washington tax policy may already know; dispite an overall lack of accomplishment since their takeover, there has been no lack of trying to pass . . .
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September 27, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
More stuff I've run into in the last week of reading...
Government regulation in all forms (most NOT coming from Congress but the unelected bureaucrats) now costs the US economy an estimated . . .
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May 27, 2008 04:47 PM EDT --
The United States has often been referred to by many progressives as a divided country. I will say for the record I usually get a chuckle at such statements , especially in the light of the economic . . .
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July 24, 2008 10:06 AM EDT --
Obviously the last year of Republican control of the House/Senate was not one of fiscal victories for the taxpayers. Despite this, 42 Congressmen and 10 Senators still managed to get As from the . . .
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November 15, 2007 04:33 PM EST --
Porker of the Month: Sen. Richard Shelby
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) Porker of the Month for an $11 . . .
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November 23, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
For all taxpayers regardless of party, join the demand for real earmark reform. Neither party is serious about this issue and it will take alot of people screaming to force it. The recent . . .
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March 17, 2009 11:50 AM EDT --
That the Obama administration is starting to look for savings in government is not news if you are a member of the armed services but where some of those proposed savings to fund the administration's . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
Mr Obama's recent announcement that his cabinet has been directed to cut $100 million or so dollars was greeted with mixed reviews by the public. With earlier statements that billions . . .
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March 19, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
Published by Congress.Org, this listing gives us the current leaders in waste. Notice both parties are raping the Treasury in a bi-partisan way, though Dems have the actual weight of numbers on . . .
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February 18, 2009 01:29 PM EST --
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every . . .
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May 15, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --
I have bought stock in one of the South's bigger power companies for several years now. Because of that, I recieve the annual company report on spending and other analysis'.
One section . . .
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February 12, 2008 09:58 PM EST --
Kudos for the Citizens Against Government Waste and their good fight for us taxpayers! Check out the list of shame below and vote!
The public outcry over the tens of billions . . .
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January 09, 2008 12:17 PM EST --
Despite a very busy holiday season, I managed to keep up on my reading. Several books and lots of articles online and in print, passed through my hands and I was able to actually learn some things . . .
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