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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on 05-12-2009
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We are starting to see just how Obama's White House original budget estimate were done with rose-colored glasses, as fellow AIP blogger Eric Fehrnstrom wrote last month . The White House has now revised their budget projections for this year... and they don't look good. The deficit for the current...
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...
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on 05-08-2009
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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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