Tag: taxes

Michael Moore proves that Moore is less. Less for you, that is.

Alternate energy: Power the homes of several average American families for a year with the fat sucked out of Michael Moore's wattle.
Alternate energy: Power the homes of several average American families for a year with the fat sucked out of Michael Moore's wattle.

For some reason, we’re on corpulent corporate bashing Michael Moore’s email list. 

Yesterday we got an email from our pal Mike that proved he’s as good an economist as he is a film maker.

He presents a 9-point plan to revitalize America. It involves mass construction projects including bullet trains, light rail systems, fleets of electric cars, windmills and solar panels, and hybrid cars and busses.

But how, you may ask, can we possibly afford all this? Well, Michael has the answer to that, too.

“To help pay for this, impose a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline. This will get people to switch to more energy saving cars or to use the new rail lines and rail cars the former autoworkers have built for them.”

Yes, $2 per gallon. Overnight. Bang. The price goes up more than 50% overnight.

We have a better idea. Enforced liposuction on all obese film makers. Burn it like they used to burn whale oil back in the 1800s. We’d cut our foreign energy dependence overnight.

The email letter on his website.

Thanks, President Obama: Cap-and Trade means a new $4300 per family energy tax

Save your pennies. Cap-and-Trade is coming.
Save your pennies. Cap-and-Trade is coming.

The Democrats’ Cap-and-Trade bill passed out of committee this week on a party line vote.

They passed it despite the fact that Cap-and-Trade has been a corruption-plagued failure in Europe. They passed it despite the fact that logic says you can’t pile billions of dollars of expenses on the economy without increasing costs. They passed it despite all logic and reason.

Heritage.org did an analysis that shows this preposterous program will cost the average American family $4,300 per year.

They predict that the direct impact on household energy bills will average $1500 per year. That includes the increases the increased costs of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, and gasoline for your car.

“But the direct tax on household energy use is just the beginning,” Heritage reported. “The energy tax also hits producers. As the higher production costs ripple through the economy the household pocketbooks get hit again and again. When all the tax impacts have been added up, the average per-family-of-four costs rise by $4,300 per year.”

Heritge.org continued: “As President Obama warned us on his campaign trail, electricity prices will ‘necessarily skyrocket.’ So will everything else, except for our income and standard of living.”

After President Obama has finished his ‘Round the World Apology Tour 2009, perhaps he can come home and apologize to the American people for this Obamanation abomination.

Source: Heritage.org

Like drunken sailors: U.S. spending $2.6 million to train Chinese hookers how to drink

Yeah, but can she handle her liquor?
Yeah, but can she handle her liquor?

This is one of those stories that’s so friggin’ unbelievable that our initial inclination was to think it was a joke.

Unfortunately, the joke’s on us.

Here’s how CNSNews.com reports it:

“The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health, will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. ‘The purpose of the project is to try and develop an intervention program targeting HIV risk and alcohol use,’ Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, told CNSNews.com. The grant, made last November, is one of several ‘international initiatives’ sponsored by NIH.”

We had a story a few months ago about the U.S. government purchasing Chinese condoms. Now we’re teaching Chinese hookers how to drink responsibly.

We don’t really care if the Chinese whores are drunk. Nor do we care if the Chinese drunks are whores.

What bothers us is that we’re all getting screwed by the drunken whores in Washington, DC.

Source: CNSNews.com

Chinese government more honest than American government about its cigarette habit

Patriotic Chinese child doing his part to boost his nation's economy.
Patriotic Chinese child doing his part to boost his nation's economy.
If cigarettes are as bad as the government says, if they cause so much disease, so many deaths, so much pain, why doesn’t the government just outlaw them?

We all know the answer to that, don’t we? State and federal governments are addicted to the sales taxes that cigarettes generate. Without those tobacco taxes, they couldn’t keep building their house of cards.

At least the Chinese government is honest about it. Here’s how the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports it:

Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reports…

Departments that fail to meet their targets will be fined, the report said.

“The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax,” said Chen Nianzu, a member of the Gong’an cigarette market supervision team, according to the paper.

Light up another ciggie, Americans. President Obama needs the money for another bogus social scheme.

Source: ABC via Tim Blair

Misleading Headline of the Day
Obama seeks to double tax law enforcement budget

At first we thought it meant he was going to double the tax on law enforcement. We had to read the article to find out it actually meant “he wants to double the budget for the enforcement of tax laws.”

He’s raising taxes on everyone else, so our first interpretation seemed reasonable.

Source: Reuters

Another historic Obama first: Tax cheat introduces tax reform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sk1FoPJc0IWe’re living in historic times and there was another historic first for the Obama administration yesterday: an admitted tax cheat introduced a tax reform program.

Yes, the Obama administration announced a plan to reduce tax evasion by companies with overseas operations. And the plan was introduced by none other than Treasury Secretary “Turbo Tax” Timothy Geithner.

Media bias being what it is, we didn’t notice any of the mainstream media outlets actually reporting it this way. But the irony is so rich that you really have to wonder how they could have ignored it.

Here’s how Geithner introduced his Fearless Leader:

Mr. President, when you took office, you promised to reform our tax code so that it would be more simple and more fair for hard-working Americans. And you promised to ensure that our tax dollars would be used to strengthen the American economy, and American competitiveness. Today, we are taking another important step towards those goals by ending indefensible tax-breaks and loopholes which allow some companies and some well-off citizens to evade the rules that the rest of America lives by. We believe in a level playing field…the Internal Revenue Service, under the strong and able leadership of Commissioner Doug Schulman, are making an unprecedented effort to upgrade and strengthen enforcement capacity. The President’s budget will add up to 800 full-time IRS employees devoted to detecting and bringing to justice those who unlawfully hide assets and income.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Geithner.

Why pick on companies with overseas operations? Hell, Obama could probably balance this bloated pig of a budget if he merely got all the Democrats to pay their back taxes.

Source: NewsBusters.org

Can we bankrupt the country? Yes, we can!

Obamanomics 101: Even if every citizen paid the government every cent of income, we still couldn’t cover the projected deficit for one year. But don’t worry, only the rich are paying taxes.
Obamanomics 101: Even if every citizen paid the government every cent of income, we still couldn’t cover the projected deficit for one year. But don’t worry, only the rich are paying taxes.
Forbes.com points out that even “if the government increased the top tax rate from the current rate of 35% to 100% (yes, that’s right 100%), it would only collect an extra $400 billion this year. In other words, confiscating all the income that is currently taxed at 35% would not raise enough revenue to cover any of the annual deficits projected in the next 10 years.”

If this is hope, where’s the change? Why bother trying to save any money at all? The Feds are printing new money faster than all of us together can earn it. (Though not as fast as Congress can spend it.)

We say, enjoy it now. Do what the politicians do and blow it on your own special interests. Buy a boat. Name a building after yourself. Rack up your credit cards like there’s no tomorrow. Then vote yourself a raise.

Source: Forbes

Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist

Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann are complete opposites. She’s angry and nuts, but he’s nuts and angry. Watching their alternate reality is like being dropped into some parallel universe where everything is twisted about 180 degrees.

Here are a few choice comments from Garofalo on Olbermann’s Thursday show. Amazingly, she knows things about you and the Tea Parties and Fox News that no one else has ever known. Or ever will know.

“Racism straightup. Nothing but a bunch of teabagging racists.” Blah-blah-blah. “These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House.” Blah-blah-blah. “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” Blah-blah-blah. “The Republican hyphen conservative movement has crystalized into the white power movement.”

Olbermann actually treats this lunatic like she’s a rational human being. Of course, that would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Hey, that wasn’t a racist comment. No matter what Garofalo says.

Update: Please read our subsequent Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:

Source: HotAir.com

CNN reporter demonstrates exactly why Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News

Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.

Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.

First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.

We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.

This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.

Today is April 15, or as the Democrats like to call it, Thanksgiving

Mmmm, government cheese. Always one of the favorite menu items on Democrat Thanksgiving Day.
Mmmm, government cheese. Always one of the favorite menu items on Democrat Thanksgiving Day.
Today is Democrat Thanksgiving Day.

It’s the joyous annual holiday on which Democrats gather with their families, feast at the government trough, and give thanks for all the taxes they “forgot to pay” or “overlooked” or “got incorrect advice from their tax preparer” or “missed because of a glitch in TurboTax.”

Tom Daschle. Tim Geithner. Hilda Solis. Ron Kirk. Kathleen Sebelius. And half the other people nominated for positions in the Obama administration will be celebrating today. And they will offer this simple prayer: “We thank you, FDR, for the bounty you have given us. And for all those phony Schedule C deductions, too.”

Remember President Obama’s pledge to simplify the tax code? What he meant, obviously, was “It’s simple to cheat on your taxes and get away with it. Especially if you’re a Democrat.”

Liberal anti-Tea Party sets record for lowest turn-out

Oh, how we wish we’d been in Washington, DC last Saturday.

That’s when a liberal group staged an anti-Tea Party that was attended by 120,000 people. Oh, wait. We misread the news report. The actual attendance was 12 people. No, that’s not a typo. Twelve sad, pathetic, lonely people showed up.

Twelve. Twelve thousand. Twelve million. Who cares? As we’ve seen with the economic “stimulus” mess, a few more zeroes mean absolutely nothing to liberals.

In an attempt to explain away this embarrassing lack of interest, liberal blogger Jane Hamsher announced that the far more successful conservative Tea Parties are “financed by Fox News” and are attended by “just a bunch of people on the conservative end who are pissed off that they’re not the ones stealing right now.”

So she’s in favor of higher taxes. And she’s in favor of stealing as long as the thieves are liberal.

The only surprise here is that she got eleven other lunatics to attend her little protest.

Source: FrankStrategies.com

Best Line of the Day
Americans pay taxes “because some of our country’s good-for-nothing bums are too chicken to rob us at gunpoint.”

As April 15 rolls around let us take a moment to recall why we Americans pay taxes: Because some of our country’s good-for-nothing bums are too chicken to rob us at gunpoint. That would be members of Congress and the executive branch. How come we keep electing politicians who will tax the bejeezus out of us? Especially Democrats? At least Republicans are smart enough to lie about it.

Read the rest in “A Nation of Moochers” by P.J. O’Rourke in the Weekly Standard.

“PROMISES, PROMISES:
Obama tax pledge up in smoke”

A salute to the new cigarette tax.
A salute to the new cigarette tax.
That’s the headline the normally-reliable Associated Press used in an article yesterday as it turned on President Obama and bared its yellowed smokers’ fangs.

One of President Barack Obama’s campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama’s promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.

To be sure, Obama’s tax promises in last year’s campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always.

“I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

He repeatedly vowed “You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”

Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.

The AP story continued:

“Listen now,” he said in his widely watched nomination acceptance speech, “I will cut taxes—cut taxes—for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”

An unequivocal “any tax” pledge also was heard in the vice presidential debate, another prominent forum.

“No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised,” Joe Biden said, “whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.”

An observation: A smokers tax could prove very costly to a party whose entire platform is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

Source: Associated Press via Breitbart

CNBC’s Haines and Burnett turn on Rangel about his tax problems


Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) didn’t know what he was getting into when he stepped in front of the CNBC cameras early this morning. Hosts Mark Haines and Erin Burnett invited the congressman on the show to discuss why he backs legislation to disallow the AIG bonuses.

First, Mark and Aaron jumped on Rangel about changing the compensation plan for a company in the middle of the game. But after Rangel was given a chance to defend his actions by claiming that AIG employees “violated the public trust” and “destroyed the economy,” the fireworks began as the conversation took a turn as Mark Haines went after him with a vengeance about his own alleged tax problems.

Haines turned the conversation with this: “With all due respect, congressman, when you talk about violating the public trust, you’ve had some tax issues of your own.” And that’s when the real fun and games started.

We love it. Some in the mainstream media are starting to grow a pair.

Media sleeps through Porkopolis Tea Party

Cincinnati has long been nicknamed “Porkopolis” because of its long association with the pork industry. So it’s a particularly poetic twist of fate that Porkopolis should be the scene of a huge Tea Party tax protest this Sunday.

Thousands of latter day tax rebels showed up in the city’s Fountain Square for the Cincinnati Tea Party, a grass-roots effort protesting Washington’s recent record setting spend-a-thon. But did the mainstream media notice?

“Unless you frequent conservative websites,” NewsBusters noted, “you’d have no idea that such events were being staged.”

In fact, over 150 Tea Parties have been brewing across the country, despite being virtually ignored by major news outlets (with the notable exception of Fox News and CNN).

Instapundit reader Ed Steiner attended the Cincinnati rally and provided a firsthand account of media bias in action:

One of the local TV stations—WCPO—did a hatchet job on the Tea Party…The station did a 30-second scan of the Square and then did its own internal Fairness Doctrine by highlighting the few Obama supporter signs and doing an interview with the local Dem Party chief.

Here’s a philosophical question: If an event occurs but the news media don’t cover it, does it make an impact? Or put another way, if the news media report something but no one listens (Air America anyone?), does it have an influence?

Don’t touch that browser! Stay tuned for more Tea Parties come April 15.

Source: NewsBusters, Pajamas Media

Blind governor smells taxes up the wazoo

david patersonIt is apparently true that those who lose one sense find their remaining senses enhanced. Blind New York Governor David Patterson, for example, can sniff out a new taxes like a sow rooting up a truffle.

Just read these brief news stories about two new taxes recently proposed by wily New York Democrats:

Stripper Tax Is Hard to ‘Bare’

A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint.

Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual abuse and child prostitution.

Source: New York Post

Now combine the story above with the one below and you begin to see how invasive the Democrats’ tax plans can be.

Governor To Bury Plan That Would Mandate Taxes On Dozens Of Recreational Items

With his approval rating plummeting by the day and thousands of angry New Yorkers urging him to find other ways to raise state revenue, Gov. David Paterson has decided to put a cork in his plan to impose dozens of “nuisance” taxes on recreational items…

Paterson had planned to mandate a sales tax on numerous items…Paterson was also going to eliminate the no-tax rule on clothing under $110, but will nix that idea, too.

Source: WCBSTV.com

So there you have it. On one hand, New York Democrats want to tax strippers. On the other hand, they want to tax clothes. Which means they will tax the shirt right off your back. And the shirt right on your back.

Hey, Charlie Rangel, pay your g*d d*mn*d taxes?

The party that brought you Reverend G*d d*mn America is back with another installment of righteously profane indignation. This time it’s in the service of the most ethical and transparent congress in history.

This is a story we’d like to see on the TV news, but we’re not holding our breath. In the meantime, we’re thankful for HotAir.

Tax cheat Charlie Rangel (D-NY) has been comfortably ensconced in the House since 1971 and currently chairs the Ways and Means Committee that writes our convoluted tax laws. He was asked by HotAir TV about his taxpayer-sponsored Cadillac and a few other ethical and financial lapses.

Thinking he was dealing with a friendly tourist, Rangel turns on the charm with a big, toothy smile and a warm “Welcome to the nation’s capitol!”

Watch how his excrement-masticating grin freezes after he’s confronted about his shady rental property deals, publicly-subsidized Cadillac, and unpaid taxes. Then he says:

“Why don’t you mind your G*d d*mn*d business?”

It’s official. Government of the people is now government vs. the people.

15,000 attend Southern California tax revolt rally, national media silent

tax revolt poster

We hate the media in general, but we love afternoon talk show hosts John & Ken of KFI radio in L.A. And if the media ignores their popular tax revolt, we’ll give them a hand.

The talk team drew 15,000 people last week to their “Revolt, Recall, Repeal Rally” to protest California’s $50 billion tax increase and to begin recall efforts aimed at the governor and several state legislators. it was covered locally, but did you see any national coverage? Ten NOW protestors on the on the White House steps makes news, but not 15,000 in a tax revolt? Of course, we’re not surprised.

During the rally, DVDs and VHS tapes of Schwarzenegger’s movies were enthusiastically trashed by the crowd. John & Ken provided “The Shredinator” to shred other Schwarzenegger memorabilia.

The KFI hosts also played recordings of Schwartzenegger promising he would never raise taxes, which elicited a loud, angry response from the crowd.

“This has been a complete disaster and it’s time to do something about it,” they said. “He should be apologizing to you and he should be resigning!”

John & Ken are the best talk show hosts in America. If you’ve never heard them rant and rave, check them out at KFI640.com.

Source: 640 KFI and Fullerton Examiner

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