Taxes Suck
we borrowed and spent nearly one trillion dollars (that's $1,000,000,000,000) on the assurance of President Obama and the (Social) Democrats that doing so would stimulate the economy, create new jobs, and restore prosperity. Instead, we bought a bunch of pork-barrel projects and waste that only made unemployment worse. We'd have been better off if Obama and Congress had done nothing. That monument to incompetence alone should cost them the 2012 election. You've been handed a club, Republicans: use it.
As many as 237 members of the House and 41 senators have signed a conservative pledge not to raise taxes, but one conservative senator suggested Sunday that it's time to break that pledge. Changing the tax code to increase federal tax revenue "would be fine with me," Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Speaking just hours before the spending plan gets its formal introduction before Congress, Ryan, head of the House Budget Committee, said the debt will peak at 74.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2014 and then drop from there. "We've got to show the country that we can get this situation under control and grow the economy, and that's what we're doing," he said. "So whether (Democratic Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid is willing to pass this bill or Barack Obama is ready to sign it, I don't know the answer to that question. "What I do know is I can't look my kids and my constituents in the eyes with my conscience being clear and not know that I didn't do everything I could to try and fix this problem before it got out of control."
Steyn replied. "I think John Boehner has been an incredible disappointment. I think John Boehner has basically climbed into the Bob Dole suit, and I think they misunderstand the lessons of the 2010 election, which is that the tea party chose to work within the diseased husk of the Republican Party it loathes. And it still hasn't forgiven for 2006 and 2008. So for the Republicans to demonstrate that 'hey, we're back to 2006 again,' except on Obama-level spending, is not a good idea."
$424 million... "It's more than embarrassing," said Syracuse University public policy professor Henry Lambright. "Something was missed in the first investigation and the work that went on afterward."
Supervisors suggest putting unemployed parents to work caring for their own children... "What we're saying is do not cut Welfare to Work outright...." [Right. Just redefine NOT working to be WORK (with all due respect to the hard work of motherhood)]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting the brakes on a guardrail at Lake Optima in Texas County, after hearing criticism from city and state leaders who call the project a waste of money.
A move by the IRS to tax the use of company-issued mobile phones is spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that he would like to see such "radical" proposals....
$1.15 million... guardrail is supposed to replace the old one at Lake Optima in Texas County... lake does not have water in it and there's really nothing there in terms of recreation... The Public information officer with the Corps... says they picked projects based on the ability to quickly award contracts.... [!!!!]
Oklahoma could lose up to $80 million in highway money later this summer because of an anticipated shortfall in the federal Highway Trust Fund, Sen. Jim Inhofe said Tuesday... would have to cancel or delay projects that have been in the pipeline for years...
Although the state faces a $900 million budget hole, the House approved a measure Tuesday that would drop the state's income tax rate from 5.5 percent to 4 percent.
The thousands of taxpayers who gathered in several locations around the Granite State on Tax Day didn't even know what they were protesting, according to the state's top Democratic Party official. "They looked like they lost their minds," said Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party of the protesters. [Or have minds a Democrat can't comprehend? What, protest taxes??]
Thousands of people rallied at the state Capitol as part of a National Tax Day Tea Party to protest excessive government spending. Thousands Attend OKC 'Tea Party' OKC Tea Party Web Site Join Our u local Community Get Wireless Alerts! Capitol Patrol officers estimated close to 4,000 people gathered Wednesday on the south steps of the state Capitol. Similar events were held in communities across the state.
Oklahomans upset with the federal government's economic stimulus funds may vent their frustration on the day state and federal taxes are due. A rally to protest the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package is scheduled for today on the south steps of the state Capitol. Organizers call the rally the Oklahoma Tax Day Tea Party
Holding signs bearing phrases such as "We the People, Not 'I' the Government" and "Obama, Pelosi, Reid, The Axis of Taxes," protesters gathered Wednesday at the Centennial Park in downtown Bartlesville as part of the nationwide National Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations — numbering nearly 800 across the country — protesting government spending, taxes and growth.
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