"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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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists
This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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Despina Karras
on 06-14-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, capitalism, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, spending, government, deficit, billions
Remember when the Obama Administration said while pushing for the stimulus bill to be passed that it would be timely and targeted? The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the claims and has found that the bill is neither. As this chart provided by Heritage shows, the spending of the billions in the...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 05-25-2009
Filed under: capitalism, stimulus package, government spending, stimulus, economic recovery, economic crisis, Heritage Foundation