Some of the best YouTube videos are the ones you find when you are looking for something else.
And I think this is a pretty good one for three reasons.
First, how great is it to see this piece of history? Second, it highlights the argument over tax cuts as a means...
Chris Christie on the Today Show this morning:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of Mitt Romney’s most popular and visible surrogates, said Wednesday the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor should release his tax returns as soon as they’re available.
“I would say if...
I saw this coming from a mile away.
Mitt Romney’s original position that he would not release his income tax returns, a position he held to for several weeks, now is slipping.
At the debate last night Romney gave a convoluted answer that he “probably” would release the tax returns in April —...
No one could have seen this coming.
Romney Tax Returns Become a Problem
Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his party’s nomination, setting himself apart from past nominees in both...
The second Mitt Romney announced he would not release his income tax returns if he becomes nominee I predicted it would not stand because the refusal would, at a minimum, create a major distraction. It’s part of a larger problem with secrecy which will haunt Romney if he is the nominee.
The most likely...
Since 2008 Obama has pursued a class warfare agenda, narrowing his focus over time from the Top 5% to the Top 2% to the Top 1%. This year Obama has narrowed his focus even further, singling out those millionaires and billionaires who pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries.
To the extent...
We keep hearing about how we should not nominate a candidate who is not disciplined and will create needless general election distractions .
This certainly will be a major distraction, Romney Says He Won’t Release Tax Returns:
“I doubt it,” Mr. Romney said, according to a transcript of the interview provided by NBC...
The tease on the homepage of The Hill for an article about Obama’s Christmas vacation dilemma reads:
The tax fight could force Obama to spend the holidays in an empty White House listening to Elvis’s “Blue Christmas.”…
The second I read that a scene from a movie came into my mind. I won’t tell...
Of course, there always will be a top 1%, so those in the Occupy Wall Street movement who want to demonize the top 1% always will have a cause.
But the numbers of millionaires who could be taxed to feed the demands of the proletariat is down in New York State:
Gannett’s Albany Bureau reported...
The anti-1% street agitation is the fulfillment of a process we have seen unfold since Obama’s 2008 campaign, a process by which a group of various definitions of wealth is isolated and targeted for demagoguery.
It was the Top 5%, then the Top 2%, now it’s down to the Top 1%.
It is...
The silent majority.
The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%.
The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts.
The ones who falsely have been called terrorists and...
You may remember that Amazon.com stopped doing business through “affiliates” (websites and blogs) in California, after the state passed a law requiring companies like Amazon to collect state sales taxes on purchases made through California affiliates.
Amazon has settled with California and will resume its relationships, but it sounds like a
As Kathleen posted earlier, Warren Buffett is backing away from the so-called Buffett Rule, which apparently is not so much a Rule as a stream of consciousness sprinkled with thoughts and afterthoughts.
The best thing about the Buffett Rule Non-Rule What Are You Talking About, is that Think Progress is spinning like...
when the rule named after you isn’t what you want:
