"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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The Obama Administration has been pushing Congress for major health care reforms for the last couple months, and Liberals in Congress have been easier to embrace the big government model that the President is pushing. It's very likely that Conservatives and some more moderate members of the Senate...
You might remember, back in February, that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood suggested a per-mile tax on American drivers to fund infrastructure projects. At the time, I wrote : Here’s the hitch. In order to do that, they have to be able to track everywhere you drive and you have to trust that...