Tag: money
member name: Charles Temm JR
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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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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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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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November 30, 2006 01:44 PM EST --
At a time when corruption in politics is news (latest being the flap over posible House Majority Leader Murtha) why is there not more hullaboo over the deals a foriegn oil . . .
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February 08, 2007 01:08 PM EST --
The never ending tax squabble doubtless is heating up in Washington. The Democratic litany on stopping "tax relief" for the rich and 'helping' the middle class promises at . . .
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November 29, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
Billionares are split in the upcoming elections (so far) in who they support. Of the listed Forbes 400, 84 had given to Repubs and 80 to Dems.
The favorites were McCain with 46 donors, . . .
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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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October 25, 2006 05:17 PM EDT --
In Europe of all places, countries such as Belguim are successfully defying the static, forced attendance at local schools. In the Belguim model, funding follows the child to whatever school the . . .
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November 21, 2006 05:20 PM EST --
The Wall Sreet Journal published this chart from OMB data. Does highlight the fact it's not a shortage of revenue that has caused deficits but spending. I sure hope the Dems will remember . . .
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January 04, 2007 03:17 PM EST --
Thius may be non news for some and ho hum for others but has anyone been following the ruckus over ROTC/JROTC in some schools? Some colleges have banned ROTC such as Harvard and Yale (those wishing . . .
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August 21, 2007 09:35 AM EDT --
Water tours of harbor cities has become quite popular across the country. In Boston, an entrepreneur named Erroll Tyler was halted from running tours in the harbor. Using amphibious vehicles, . . .
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August 21, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
Every month, the group Citizens Against Government Waste select one of our esteemed "public servants" to hold up as a symbol of government waste or corruption. This month's winner was . . .
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October 19, 2008 04:10 PM EDT --
“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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April 10, 2009 04:05 PM EDT --
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
French economist and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)
*Forgotten by most . . .
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