Archive for the ‘Tax Policy’ Category
Oh, And By The Way
Medicare and scientific research, two things Republicans want to cut to give Donald Trump another tax break or corporations another handout, are right this very moment saving my father’s life. There is a reason we fund these things. Anyone who wants to argue with me about the validity and necessity of funding both of these [...]
February 4, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
111 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Tax Policy, Teabagger Stupidity
Your tax dollars at work
Today is World AIDS Day. Globally, more than 33 million people have HIV, and this day serves as an opportunity for people worldwide to unit in the fight against HIV. In doing so, VA medical centers across the country offer Veterans free confidential HIV tests. The Department of Veterans Affairs leads the country in HIV/AIDS [...]
December 1, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 82 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Domestic Affairs, Tax Policy, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Vouchercare
Everything You Need To Know About Iowa Republican Caucus Voters
The “but Republicans will never tax me, just those other people” scam is arguably the most successful example of wishful thinking and voting against your own self-interest that I’ve ever seen. From the Des Moines Register: Two-thirds of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers earning less than $50,000 a year believe they personally would be better off [...]
November 4, 2011
· Zandar · 28 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clap Louder!, Decline and Fall, Republican Stupidity, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Tax Policy
Paul Ryan: The First Rule About Income Inequality is “Don’t Talk About Income Inequality.”
Refocusing the national conversation It’s hard to deny that the first nine months of the 112th Congress saw this country transfixed by Republican demands for austerity. Indeed, President Obama was met with a lot of criticism from the left for seeming to give in to this Republican-framed national conversation. Many on the left were frustrated [...]
October 26, 2011
· ABL 2.0 · 52 Comments
Posted in: Tax Policy, Teabagger Stupidity, The Money Party, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Beating Three Nines With A Hand Full Of Jokers
Not to be outdone by Herman Cain’s awful 9-9-9 plan, Rick Perry shuffles the deck and draws an even more regressive mess of a tax scheme to transfer wealth to the top. K-Drum takes a look at Perry’s cards. The plan starts with giving Americans a choice between a new, flat tax rate of 20% [...]
October 25, 2011
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Perry-tinnitus, Tax Policy
More 4-1-1 On 9-9-9
Matt Yglesias sums up what Herman Cain’s awful 9-9-9 Plan means for the middle class in this pair of charts showing the change in the average American’s yearly tax burden: And yes, this means for working class Americans earning between $10k and $40k a year, you can expect to pay 10% of your [...]
October 19, 2011
· Zandar · 135 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Tax Policy
Dinosaur Steve Versus The Axe Man
In three weeks here in Kentucky we’ll choose a governor. Democratic incumbent Steve Beshear is famous for giving tens of millions in tax breaks to the Ark Park, and he’s the guy I’m voting for without hesitation. It should tell you how bad his opponent, Republican David Williams, truly is. Here’s the Williams economic plan: [...]
October 18, 2011
· Zandar · 26 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Tax Policy, The Money Party, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Republicans find their voice: turns out, it’s whiny
The New York Time interviewed some US elected officials and their boss, Grover Norquist. It’s worth a read because it’s really pretty funny: The first dissenter: Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah has signed a pledge never to raise taxes. He signed another pledge too, one that made it nearly impossible to vote for a bill [...]
October 7, 2011
· Kay · 86 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, Kochsuckers, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Rare Sincerity, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Tax Policy
A Tax Cut They Don’t Like
These guys are just going all-in on the class warfare: News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes. Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right? Apparently not. Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong [...]
August 21, 2011
· John Cole · 67 Comments
Posted in: Tax Policy
Red State Welfare Queens
This map and accompanying discussion (via) should be more widely disseminated. As Kevin Drum notes, rural life is more expensive, and it is subsidized by city dwellers. Rural state Republicans used to know this, so they would often vote for pork-barreling blue dogs who were perceived as more effective in bringing home far more than [...]
August 9, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 75 Comments
Posted in: Tax Policy, Teabagger Stupidity
Who’s Taxing Whom?
Fair warning: what follows is a bit of a rant and contains nothing particularly new. But the fiscal follies of our overlords are unhinging me, and as misery loves company, I hope to share my derangement. —————- I’ve been a little obsessed with light bulbs lately, as regular readers know. I continue to be dumbfounded [...]
July 18, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 62 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, Tax Policy, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
In the Integer-Based Community
I’ll give that unnamed Bush staffer credit.* It is possible to create an alternate reality—if only for a time—given the willing complicity of all those watching (and transmitting) the useful fantasies of the powerful. Just look at the success the Koch brothers’ subsidiary political arm, aka the GOP et al. have had in persuading so [...]
June 21, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 87 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Election 2012, Tax Policy, The Math Demands It
The Company We Keep
Looks like Sullivan isn’t the only one impressed with the “seriousness” of Ryan’s budget: In other Palin news, it appears that Bristol Palin, who is uniquely unqualified to speak about teen pregnancy prevention issues (any one of the billion women across the planet who managed to not get pregnant as a teen would be more [...]
April 5, 2011
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Seriously, Tax Policy, Teabagger Stupidity, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
They’re Not Even That Consistent
I like the general theme of Sullivan’s bit about the meaninglessness of labels with respect to modern Republicans. However, this is simply wrong. Income tax rates are now lower than they were under Ronald Reagan and far lower than they were under Eisenhower. And yet it has become a Norquistian non-negotiable that no taxes can [...]
March 29, 2011
· Tim F. · 86 Comments
Posted in: Tax Policy, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility, The Wingularity, We Are All Mayans Now
Grab Your Pearls and Smelling Salts
The Affordable Care Act had a provision requiring small business to issue a 1099 to every vendor with whom they spent over $600. This caused an outcry and the House passed a screwed up repeal provision, which the Senate will probably also approve. Now that this odious regulatory burden is about to be lifted from [...]
March 9, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 91 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Tax Policy
