Posted on 31 October 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Well no kidding, huh?
“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan.”
While in Pakistan, our Secretary of State, the most capable Hillary Clinton said that we are taxed up the wazoo.
Oh well…
Posted on 13 October 2009 by Mr. Fernandez
Taxing “Cadillac” health plans in order to pay for universal healthcare? What does that sound like? Let’s hope this proposal does not pass.
Supporters claim that the tax will cause employers to hunt for cheaper plans in order to avoid the tax, forcing insurers to lower their prices. Critics claim that this will lead to rising costs for employers, and by extension, families and individuals.
But wait, there’s more!
Nancy Pelosi offered up an alternative, which would be to tax insurers’ “windfall profits”. Genius! Let’s take away the incentives for running a successful business to pay for healthcare for everyone.
Sound like anything to you folks?
Read–NY Times
Posted on 25 September 2009 by Mr. Harrington
This is absolutely insane.
The Politico is reporting that Senator John Ensign received a handwritten note from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief Tom Barthold saying that “if there is a willful failure to file, pay, maintain appropriate records and the like…the taxpayer may be charged with a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to $25,000 and not more than one year in jail.”
Umm…hello?! If you don’t have health insurance, you may be fined and go to jail!
Check out the note after the jump…
Posted on 27 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Botox, face lifts, tummy tucks, hair transplants, etc., may be taxed 10% in order to pay for the $1 trillion health overhaul.
From Congress Daily: “Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucustold reporters he had heard some ‘interesting,’ ‘creative,’ and ‘kind of fun’ ideas.”
Fun taxes? Is this guy a loon?
The only state that taxes cosmetic surgery is New Jersey.
Developing…
Posted on 20 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
UPDATE: California has passed a budget…check back for more updates…
Here is the previous post…:
Yes, ladies and gentlemen of California, Governor Arnie said today that he and lawmakers had reached a “basic agreement” on a budget…
Just days ago, I reported that California was getting close to a deal…
But will it last? If it does…we can pay our bills…and maybe no more furloughs…
All Democrats and several Republicans must vote in it’s favor for it to pass.
California socialite, Karen Bass, spoke of the deal, saying “We have closed the deficit. … We have protected the safety net.”
However, the plan includes $15 Billion in budget cuts…
There is also a plan to allow drilling off of the California coast…
However, several state parks will have to close.
All with no tax increases…
Now, keep in mind, this plan isn’t great…it works…and slows the free-fall we were in just days ago…
If they can pass it…
Read–CBS 13-Sacramento
Read–CNN
Posted on 16 July 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Why?
Because they are going on vacation this weekend…
And what might they do? Legalize pot.
It could rake in $1.4 billion in additional cash for the state.
Lots of people think that its a good idea…but what about the remaining $25 Billion?
Posted on 26 June 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Surrounding Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Mark Sanford, and Ed Sullivan, it might be hard to remember that THERE IS A VOTE ON THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE EVER on the floor today…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, congress, in order to ram through the 1,201 page bill, they have decided to vote today.
Thanks to @CalebHowe
This is ridiculous. How are they expected to read the bill? To put it in perspective, they are asking the other representatives to read Atlas Shrugged in one day…and UNDERSTAND IT!
Now, an organization called Let Freedom Ring has made a pledge card that asks congresspeople to vote on the healthcare bill, only after they have personally read it and it has been made available to the people.
And as a quick asside, two people have signed the pledge… Jim Demint and James Inhofe…
Now they just need one for the largest tax ever…
Looks like they’ll need a speed-reader…
UPDATE: HA! I knew it. Harry “Doesn’t want to” Reid says no to allowing a week to read the Cap and Trade bill…
UPDATE: Tell those swing votes to vote no!
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Click here to see a list of swing votes.
Read–Chicago Tribune
Read–Breitbart
UPDATE: Jesus Christ, folks. House holds a moment of silence for Michael Jackson. Kills me. It’s a circus.
UPDATE: Greenpeace is against Cap and Trade? Who knew? So, it seems that the Congress is trying to put the screws to the economy for the sake of expansion of government…
UPDATE: They are really trying to pass a bill with a placeholder? It’s a circus.
Rangel supports horse-trading on House floor…
Carl Levin says C&T is moral imperative…
John Larson invokes the name of T. Boone Pickens…Which is odd…because T. Boone’s Prop 10 was voted down in California in 2008…
And someone needs to tell him to stop yelling…
Is anyone else worried about all these Democrats invoking the ideas of “terrorism” and 9/11 while trying to get votes for C&T?
The Cap and Trade bill costs $700 Million a page!
UPDATE: Representatives caught horse-trading…Barton said it best, “At least its transparent…”
UPDATE: Gohmert: “Where is a physical copy [of the 300 page amendment?]”
–silence–
That silence is so telling.
Apparently, they can’t find a physical copy of the 300 page amendment…
And also, there isn’t a rule that requires a physical copy to vote…or, if there is, the important sounding person at the big podium isn’t aware of one…
Barton: “If a bill for which there is no copy were to actually pass House, could bill be sent to Senate having no copy?”
Apparently there isn’t a copy…anywhere…even on the desk…
Will they recess to form a search party to find the 300 page amendment? Barton requested a short recess to find the official copy…
Markey says no.
It’s a circus…
Jason Chaffetz, Representative from Utah, said on tweeted, “Dems still don’t have a final finished hard copy of bill, 1,500 pages now. And we are supposed to vote on this? Nobody has read it in full.”
Representative Bilbray: “The biggest threat to environment is the smoke coming from backroom deals”
A representative wished to have a moment of silence for those who will lose their jobs had his request objected to…
UPDATE: Well, John Boehner is going to fillabuster! He is going to read every page of the 300 page amendment…
I guess that means they found it…
Hope he brought a diaper…or a pail…
Boenher turned 2.5 minutes into an Hour! Good work, sir!
WORK THOSE PHONES!
Watch him tell it like it is…
“It is the custom of the house is to listen to the leader’s comments.”
Cap and Trade has passed in the House.
Now we must work the Senate. And find out who those 8 Republicans were…
219-212
After the jump: Who were the Republican turncoats? Also, more updates…
Posted on 04 June 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Folks, after the jump, there is an email I sent to the Pennsylvania branch of ACORN. After no response to this email, I sent it to every ACORN email I could find. I still have not received a response.
The email was regarding an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review quoting Ian Phillips saying there was no quota system while registering voters, now, those of you who have been following the ACORN story here on the Report, you know that this is untrue, and that the Project Vote Training manual says to
“set clear numerical hourly expectations, retrain once, and then fire.”
I post this email with a request of you:
Would you please email this email to every ACORN email address you can find? Demand the truth. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your duty. It is your duty to not let these Chicago thugs get away with this racket any longer.
Please read, then copy, then send the email to every ACORN email address you can find.–I’m hoping that they cannot ignore this email if it got the proper volume.
Thank you.
The email is available after the jump…
Posted on 14 May 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Barack Obama said today, “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
Now…wait just a minute…
Remember when the Tea Party Patriots were yelling and screaming about mortgaging my future?
And everyone else was yelling and screaming that the patriots were just “tea-bagging rednecks?”
Well…Now Obama said exactly what we were saying…
He also said that the current deficit and debt is “Unsustainable.”
Will people back him up? Or will they call him a “tea-bagging redneck?”
Posted on 12 May 2009 by Mr. Harrington
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is crazy.
There are two hundred-ish companies registered at the address-1024 Elysian Fields Ave–of the business Citizens Consulting (by the way, I’m going to call this company tomorrow):
Here is a picture of the building at the address…According to Glenn Beck.
Also, on the left, it gives a list of businesses…the ones that are featured…ACORN and the Affiliated Media Foundation?.
And…another organization that is at that address…the SEIU. SEIU local 100 is located at the same address as ACORN, the Affiliated Media Foundation, and other businesses…
Check out their contact page here.
Now, what is the Affiliated Media Foundation?
Find out after the jump…
I will be following this issue until I get to the bottom of it. Please check back often.
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