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Stopped by the NYC teaparty on the way home. The crowd was forced into tight labyrinthine cattle pen on the sidewalk next to City Hall Park. This made it impossible to attend on the periphery, hoping to make a quick exit. If you wanted in, you had to commit for the duration, as there was [...]
The President’s Director of the Office of management and Budget defends the proposal to reduce the tax deduction on on charitable contributions with the following: Third, there’s a question of fairness. Non-profits play a critical role in our society (indeed, I have worked at several of them in the past). But let’s look at how [...]
Yet another Obama appointee: The Senate Finance Committee says President Barack Obama’s nominee for trade representative owes roughly $10,000 in back federal taxes and has agreed to pay them. The report said Ron Kirk will file amended returns covering the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. via The Associated Press: Trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to [...]
Today’s New York Post was just depressing on pension and tax issues. First, in YOU HURT, THEY PROSPER, an editorial predicted a massive tax hike to hit the state: “Is it fair to ask the people who make more to pay a little bit more in this time of crisis?” he wondered last week, arguing [...]
Jim Geraghty makes a solid point about Rangel, another tax-cheating liberal Democrat: If Tom Daschle’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep him out of the job of Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Nancy Killefer’s failure to pay taxes was enough to keep her out of the job of chief performance officer, [...]
David Boaz put together an astounding list of Democrats who cheat on their taxes. The party that wants to raise taxes, cheats and doesn’t pay them. I sympathize with anybody trying to hold down his tax bill. Government is too big and too expensive, few of us feel we get our money’s worth from our [...]
If I voted for a party that wanted to raise my taxes and spend even more money that the government doesn’t have; and if Joe Biden, our new Vice-President from that party described paying taxes as patriotic; and if that same party criticized a plumber for a $1,000 tax lien; and if it then turned [...]
Shannon Love at Chicago Boyz thinks that California has reached a tipping point: Of course no one is being whipped, but in effect an ordinary citizen of California cannot get their desires for reduced state spending implemented due to the disproportionate power of the State’s employees and allied interest. It appears now that the government [...]
Last week the Metropolitan Transit Authority decided to punt its obligations, and agreed to refer its new labor negotiations to an arbitration panel. With skyrocketing deficits and the promise of higher fares, higher taxes, and even a new tax on payrolls, they made no effort to confront the union over wages, work rules, or pensions. [...]
Today’s opinion section in the Daily News today has three separate articles on taxes and pensions for government workers. Well, two-and-a-half, really. First, the lead editorial argues that government worker costs are way too high, and ends with this conclusion: The runaway costs of pensions and health care are a major reason the city and [...]
