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...
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on 05-11-2009
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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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