Posts Tagged ‘wsj’


Did you know Obama's tax audit joke at ASU would have potentially gotten him fired from the IRS?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260113149028331.html This is why the IRS is so strict with its own employees. Paul Caron, a professor at the University of Cincinnati who writes the TaxProf blog, noted in response to Mr. Obama’s remarks that the law calls for the termination of IRS employees who make audit threats for illegitimate reasons. He suggested that Mr. [...]

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Who estimates "jobs saved" if you can't actually measure this statistic?

You can COUNT "jobs created". But Obama has changed the definition (changed it twice actually) to be "jobs created OR saved OR funded". Now politically, this is borderline genius because you can literally make the numbers whatever you need them to be. (assuming people don’t get wise to the game…) So who makes this estimate [...]

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Did you know that Obama is planning to tax the working class to give to the rich and politically connected?

Barack Obama’s Cap and Trade is a Tax on the working class Who Pays for Cap and Trade? Hint: They were promised a tax cut during the Obama campaign. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655590609066021.html -snip Politicians love cap and trade because they can claim to be taxing "polluters," not workers. Hardly. Once the government creates a scarce new commodity [...]

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Has Obama been forthright with unemployment numbers?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html "Saved or created" has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he describes what his stimulus is doing for American jobs. His latest invocation came yesterday, when the president declared that the stimulus had already saved or created at least 150,000 American jobs — and announced he was ramping up some of the [...]

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Is the distance between the president and the people finally being revealed?

The Alien in the White House Excerpts The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill. There should have been [...]

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