Last week, I briefly mentioned the Internet Sales Tax being considered in Congress–it actually already passed the House of Representatives. It is scheduled to be voted on in the Senate today. So this is the thing, I’m not sure I oppose the idea of all internet sales taxes. Currently, an internet business must collect taxes [...]
To mark the occasion, I give you a post to help ease the pain. At least they can’t tax laughter. Yet. “Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” ― Benjamin Franklin “Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and that was the closest our country has ever been to being [...]
First, let me say that everybody should fill out the census. The census is very important. The census is fundamental to our representative democracy. Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution says, “[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent [...]
“Free” health care, “Free” cash for (not exactly) clunkers, “Free” government stimulus money. People! It’s NOT free! It’s other people’s money.It’s your money filtered through a government bureaucracy and a much smaller amount returned with a multitude of strings attached. It’s your children’s, grandchildren’s and–should the Lord tarry–you’re great grandchildren’s money.It’s not just your money, [...]
The argument: But in this case the non-economic objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, never mind their source. If you only impose restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from domestic sources, you give consumers no incentive to avoid purchasing products that cause emissions in other countries; as a result, you have an inefficient outcome even [...]
Iranians are still fighting for their freedom, and the mullahs are increasing their brutality. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a gigantic tax/job-killing bill (sort of, not really. More of a concept than a bill. Wait. What? Is that legal?) Obama is doing exactly what Bush did. Again. American journalists are held in North Korea, [...]
A familiar construct in sci-fi and fantasy is the induced utopia story. Everyone is living a passive, happy life, nothing bothers them. It’s all very nice, and not quite right. Then somebody snaps out of it (or was never affected in the first place) and saves the day for the messy, rambunctions disorderly humans. (Face [...]
This is why I’m going to the Tea Party Protest: “Fiscal rescue” now approaches the value last years gross domestic product: $12.8 trillion ($12,800,000,000,000). Last year’s GDP was $14.9 trillion ($14,200,000,000,000). Meaning the government has “spent, lent or committed” the almost as much as our entire economy produced last year. (Anytime you hear X trillion [...]