Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Federal Tax Burdens and Expenditures by State. Note this is a March 16, 2006 report, about two years ago. The report discusses changes over time so these results may have changed by March 2009. Nevertheless, the analysis stimulates a heuristic inquiry into who are the federal tax producers and who ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Which will deliver better results for Trillion Dollars in Government Run Stimulus Programs OR Eliminate $Trillion One Year Payroll Social Security Wage Earner Tax on the lower and middle class? Same amount of money but payroll tax gets the money into the economy. It is unlikely that those subject to payroll ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
This story has a bit of sadness to it. The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter might call it “creative destruction” and Wikipedia comments and the change, we hope, will be for the better, for material prosperity, more goods and services for more people and, yet, it is not a certain future and ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Check out Lowman Henry’s Lincoln blog. Governor Rendell is closing down a Veteran's children’s school to make a point. Sickening. People are outraged in the midstate. It appears the affluent elites in southeast are apathetic. The Liberal Democrat can do no wrong. This is front page news in some parts ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
Budget vote for last year’s phony 2008-2009 budget and this year? With real challenges and no money? What will Governor and Republicans do?
Roberta Biros of Mercer County Conservative blog did a terrific job in compiling this data on 2008-2009 faux, unbalanced budget 2008-2009 (last year’s budget). The Revenue shortfall was ...
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