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Taxes - The Heritage Foundation
Proponents of raising taxes have offered many straw man arguments and myths to support their case.
View Article - Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:00 -0400

As we celebrate Labor Day, let’s remember what makes this holiday possible in the first place: American workers. For the most part that means small business.
View Article - Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

The CEO of Intel has joined the ranks of those labeling big government as the cause of our economic slump, not the solution.
View Article - Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

President Obama has called for a huge tax increase to take effect on January 1, 2011. Instead of reducing spending, he proposes to raise taxes on a wide swath of taxpayers—including small businesses—despite the weak economic recovery. Congressional Democrats stand poised (immediately following the November elections) to endorse the President’s request and threaten to go much further. Proponents of letting the tax cuts expire—which would indeed be a tax hike—have offered a wide array of justifications for this wrongheaded policy. Heritage Foundation fiscal policy expert J. D. Foster wades through the myths and straw arguments to set the record straight.
View Article - Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:29:00 -0400

Curtis Dubay discusses the merits of extending the Bush tax cuts, including cuts for the middle class.
View Article - Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Bill Beach discusses whether a national tax holiday would encourage more lending.
View Article - Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

The Economic Freedom Act, proposed by Representative Jim Jordan, would terminate the ineffective Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), and substitute a proven way to stimulate the economy: tax relief—from permanent repeal of the capital gains and death taxes to significant reductions in payroll taxes and the top corporate tax rate. Analysts at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis (CDA) conducted static and dynamic analyses of the act (H.R. 5029), finding that over the long term, dynamic economic effects would offset much of the cost of the tax relief. In the short term, the act would increase the deficit if it was not coupled with reductions in spending. This means a specific plan for spending cuts is imperative. The CDA analysts detail the economic and fiscal effects of the Economic Freedom Act’s spending and tax cuts.
View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:30:00 -0400

Bill Beach discusses the possible outcomes of a flat tax.
View Article - Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

J D Foster discusses the possibility of an American VAT.
View Article - Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Imagine you are one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top political strategists. The polls show your party needs a game-changer, something that will transform what looks like a losing political hand into a winner. “I know,” you shout, “let’s push for a large tax increase on the ‘fortunate few’ — the 2 or 3 percent of the population with so much money they won’t even miss a few thousand bucks. The other 97 or 98 percent will feel no pain, and we’ll be able to call ourselves deficit hawks when all those billions start rolling in.”
View Article - Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

President Obama wants to drastically raise taxes in January
View Article - Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:57:00 -0400

The CBPP's critique is based on faulty economic analysis and fundamental misrepresentations.
View Article - Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:00:00 -0400

Liberals in Congress have a plan to raise your taxes after the elections this fall, something they must do to continue feeding the Obama Administration’s spending addiction. Watch for them to act after the midterm elections under the cover of the report from the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Curtis Dubay returns to The Ed Show to discuss jobs and extending the Bush tax cuts.
View Article - Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Curtis Dubay discusses renewing the Bush tax cuts to support economic growth.
View Article - Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

The death tax: What does it kill? Who does it affect? It affects hundreds of thousands of small-business owners across the country—as well as their employees and community residents who benefit from the senior and day care centers, playgrounds, charities, and learning centers that are built or supported by small-business owners. Like water and sunlight in an ecosystem, small businesses provide sustenance essential to building and preserving communities. So high is the death tax that a large portion of heirs to small companies cannot afford to pay it after the business founder dies, and see themselves forced to sell to giant corporations—which have no personal ties to the communities of their new acquisitions, and thus no incentive to commit to local institutions. What does the death tax kill? The best of American life and civil society itself. The death tax is simply antithetical to the core of the American dream.
View Article - Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:53:00 -0400

Millions of Americans face potential financial ruin because they bought homes they couldn't afford. Often, these homeowners were lured by initially low interest rates that provided the illusion of affordability. After a few years, these "teaser" rates reset upward, creating unaffordably high mortgage payments.
View Article - Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Senator Jim DeMint cites Heritage research in his speech on preventing the renewal of the death tax.
View Article - Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:00:00 -0400

2010 is the only year since 1916 in which heirs to an estate will not have to pay the dreaded death tax. Victory for small businesses? Not yet—due to a legal quirk, the death tax is scheduled to come back to life in 2011. Studies, statistics, and real life have shown again and again that the businesses and families burdened with the death tax often see themselves forced to cut back on benefits, investments, and employees. The death tax keeps new jobs from being created, hurting not just the affected businesses, but the economy as a whole. Because it is a tax on capital, the death tax destroys as many as 1.5 million jobs that the economy needs as it struggles to recover. Heritage Foundation tax policy expert Curtis Dubay details a replacement for the death tax, and explains why Congress must kill the death tax—now.
View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:09:00 -0400

The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act would likely lead to the same conditions that caused the housing bubble of a few years ago.
View Article - Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:00 -0400

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Yemen What?!?!?  


Monday, January 4, 2009
www.meatandpotatoes.org 
By: Brian Miller
 

 

Our worldly leader and Commander and Chief, President Obama, with the help of the mainstream media is now showing just how serious he is taking the threat of Terrorism; or has he likes to call it “man-made disasters”.   The target of his efforts is change you can believe in, after all that whole Axis of Evil thing (North Korea, Iraq & Iran) is so last administration.  Sure, during the campaign Obama pointed out that Afghanistan, the red-headed step child of the war on terror, and Pakistan were far more important than that ole Axis of Evil. 
 
Obamizm: Pakistan
Actual Pronunciation: (pak - i - stan)
Obamizm Pronunciation: (pä - ki - stän)
The pronunciation of Pakistan has been changed, on order to make it sound better.  This new pronunciation was tacitly done to suggest that his version was the correct one, implying that he understood the country far better that anyone else.
 
This higher level of importance was so clearly evident, by the fact that the administration spent months putting off the troop surge recommended by General McCrystal, who basically said give me more troops or pull out.  But now we have a new country to focus on that the president is going to take seriously; Yemen.

Yemen?  What, you don’t remember hearing much about this country in the news?  That just happens to be where Osama Bin Loden grew up, and where the terrorist who bombed the US Kohl are from, but that’s about it.  In fact, before December 26th, if you asked most Americans what Yenen is, most people might be more convinced it was some exotic ingredient the Obama’s add to their arugula salads, as opposed to being a country.  Maybe just maybe, that’s why it was picked as the new poster country for the effort to curtail the threat of terrorism, or worse yet, actual “man-made disasters”.


 
Rewriting History Again:
 
Dec 24th. - Obama get’s Healthcare passed trough the Senate with his approval numbers completely tanking and the left enflamed after his second complete failure in Copenhagen (Strike 1: The 2016 Olympics in Chicago | Strike 2: No International Global Warming Agreement)
 
Dec 25th - Foiled terrorist airline bomb attack with possible ties to Al Qaeda 
 
Dec 26th – Airline bomber suddenly associated with Al Qaeda in Yemen
 
Dec 28th – Suddenly a pattern has emerged from the press about the Fort Hood shooter talking to Al Qaeda in Yemen; the same group the Christmas airline bomber is now associated with.  In fact, I went through the President's highly televised address at Fort Hood, and out of the 1983 word speech, not once did he utter the words Terror, Al Qaeda or Yemen
 
Jan 3rd – Along with England and several other countries, the United States closes it’s embassy over security concerns in Yemen.  This front page headline overshadowed the release of the U.S. fatality totals in Afghanistan for 2009 equating to more than the previous 3 years combined!
 
Jan 4th – White House announces they were closely monitoring a potential terrorist attack during the inauguration a year before.  AP reported: “All the data points suggested there was a real threat evolving with an overseas component”.  Note: that the name of a country was left out, to be inserted later by the Obama Administration Revisioneers.  This is NOW coming out as Obama is pointing all fingers at Yemen
 

 

 

Disney employees, known as Imagineers, are renowned for their ability to blend creativity, expertise, and technological advancements to create “distinctive experiential storytelling” that immerses their audience in a completely believable fake world.
 

Obama Administration officials, known as Revisioneers, are renowned for their ability to blend creativity, expertise, and technological advancements to create “distinctive experiential storytelling” that immerses their audience in a completely believable fake world.

Long and short: they copied Walt Disney with the same accuracy as they did with Saul Alinsky.
 

I think that Yemen is simply being used to bolster sagging poll numbers and deflect from larger problems a-la Clinton.  That’s right Yemen, you are being Lawinskied!  Now granted I could be wrong, and so many national security pundants have spoke of the problems in Yemen.  I have also heard liberals talking about how bad it is over there; after all, they have one of the smallest and weakest National Governments in the world, and more privately and legally owned guns per capita than the United States…no wonder they are so concerned about Yemen!

I have a solution to the problem, and one that is completely consistent with the President’s current policy.  Don’t close the Embassies and pull back.  That’s so George Bush.  Engage the leaders; give them an attainable goal, and a time to hit it…like you did with Iran.  They won’t meet the goal either, but you can give them a good solid “B+” anyways.  Then to make them feel even better, have a State Dinner at the White House for them.  You may not whan to do a Hawaiian Pig roast for that one, but the lower security tent would be nice, like you had for the Indian event.  Make sure the attendees are completely inclusive, and maybe we can get lucky and have some new surprise guests again!  Just remind the people at the guard’s station that there is no War on Terror before they open the doors, and I’m sure the event will go off with a bang!

To my readers: please excuse my sarcasm, and my complete lack of trust in this administration.  I could list (with footnotes) all of the reasons why, however the post would be so long that it would exceed the limits on my server. 





 
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2 - Separation of Church and State
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6 - Same Sex Marriage
7 - Rasing Taxes Equals more government funds
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9 - America must be humble to the international community
10 - Government Knows Best

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