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Posts Tagged ‘tax policy’

Clinton Fears U.S. Becoming Island Nation Of Samurai

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Your eyes are hazel And soft as cloudsHillary Clinton is afraid that Americans are going to start prancing around in knee socks and filming radioactive giant lizard-based horror films, now that we are sinking into a “Japanese-style malaise.” But these terrible tragedies can be avoided if we resort to crazy nanny state policies like having the Federal Housing Administration purchase underwater mortgages. MORE »


Thompson Spends Weekend Shooting Mouth Off

Monday, November 26th, 2007

If people want to elect Cheney, why not just elect Cheney?During this weekend of pronouncements designed to combat the perception that he doesn’t really give a shit about winning the race, Fred pointed guns in South Carolina and pointed out that Rudy is pro-gun control and the Mittster used to be pro-life. But, like a good fiscally-conservative Republican, he saved his best pot-shots for the tax code.

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Paul Can’t Add, Paultards Don’t Care

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Whuh?One of the main planks of Ron Paul’s Presidential platform is the long-awaited elimination of the income tax. Paul claims that he can eliminate the income tax, pull us out of all international activities (and eliminate some small pieces of the federal government like the Department of Education) and thereby save the world. Or something. Someone smarter than us runs the numbers after the jump.

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