It’s A Stimulus Stupid! Part Two! Last week when I left all you wonderful viewers we were talking about the alternative minimum tax increase found in the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Now it is our duty to move on and uncover more of the nonsense that was passed off as “stimulating...
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President Obama’s prediction of 3.5 million jobs arising out of the stimulus bill is starting to unravel, as was inevitable. Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told C-SPAN yesterday that we won’t see positive job growth until 2010. This follows April’s...
Like the proverbial frog in a pot of heating water, we tend not to notice how ridiculous our tax situation has gotten until it's too late. I think it's useful to be reminded once in a while of just how intrusive our government has gotten in its quest to fund the gargantuan programs the President...
With plenty of problems facing the State of New York, Governor David Paterson has more than enough issues to shape his agenda with and ample time to tackle them to save his political career. But, with dismal poll numbers that aren't turning around, he has virtually no political capital left to accomplish...
Chances are if you are reading this, you are familiar with the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It is the shining star of the Barack Obama administration in its first hundred days or so. The Act includes federal tax relief, expansion of unemployment benefits and other social welfare provisions...
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