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• SOTU Open Thread

  I’ve never liked the whole State of the Union show, which smacks too much of a royal address. The endless applause, the pandering, the BS promises … Back to the written version please. Nevertheless, I’ll liveblog tonight’s version, offspring permitting.

  8:59: The big news today is that Mitt Romney release his tax returns and is paying an effective tax rate of 14%. If Obama were smart, he would use this a springboard to Simpson-Bowles … Read more

• The Other Way

  As I’ve said before, I don’t think we can balance the budget without raising taxes. Of course, tax hikes have to be conditional on even larger spending cuts (a 3-1 ratio at least). And they should be real spending cuts, not phony-baloney baseline cuts or giving ourselves credit for ending the war in Afghanistan.

  Given that, you might think I see Obama’s tax proposal — which mainly involves setting higher marginal rates for millionaires — … Read more

• More Perspective..

  During the comments discussion on one of our recent posts dealing with the effect of our current leaders on the economic and job situation in the US, the issue of what kind of impact the blatant hostility from the Obama administration towards business came up. Some people refused to accept that, in general, based on the laws and policies pushed over the last 3 years, this administration was exhibiting some serious and severe hostility towards … Read more

• Tax insanity to keep the behemoth from dying..

  Check out the latest plan by the people that feel gas is too cheap: tax mileage.

  The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is a part of the administration’s “Transportation Opportunities Act,” an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly. This follows a March Congressional

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• Disheartening study

  RealClearPolitics has a very interesting, albeit disappointing to me, article about politicians, the public, the debt crisis, and how the participants of this study feel it needs to be solved. As usual, what we have here is a debate between what the left thinks the public wants and what the right does, as the article starts off discussing. What’s obvious to me from the study that the article is based on is the fact … Read more