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Breitbart.tv : Gigot: Christie 'Thinking About Running Now, Very Carefully'

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:36:13 +0000

Take it from a Jersey conservative ... Don't

Breitbart.com : Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:35:38 +0000

see chart here ... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/... and 10 myths about the Bush tax cuts here ... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/... One thing you'll note in the article ... "In 2000, the top 60 percent of taxpayers paid 100 percent of all income taxes. The bottom 40 percent collectively paid no income taxes. Lawmakers writing the 2001 tax cuts faced quite a challenge in giving the bulk of the income tax savings to a population that was already paying no income taxes." A good question ... how do you cut taxes for people who don't PAY taxes? The article goes on to point out that "All in all, the number of tax filers with zero or negative income tax liability rose from 30 million to 40 million, or about 30 percent of all tax filers. The remaining 70 percent of tax filers received lower income tax rates, lower investment taxes, and lower estate taxes from the 2001 legislation." Remember that when you hear that the Bush tax cuts were for the "rich".

Breitbart.com : Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:29:50 +0000

see chart here ... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/... and 10 myths about the Bush tax cuts here... http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/01/... One thing you'll note in the article ... "In 2000, the top 60 percent of taxpayers paid 100 percent of all income taxes. The bottom 40 percent collectively paid no income taxes. Lawmakers writing the 2001 tax cuts faced quite a challenge in giving the bulk of the income tax savings to a population that was already paying no income taxes." A good question ... how do you cut taxes for people who don't PAY taxes? The article goes on to point out that "All in all, the number of tax filers with zero or negative income tax liability rose from 30 million to 40 million, or about 30 percent of all tax filers. The remaining 70 percent of tax filers received lower income tax rates, lower investment taxes, and lower estate taxes from the 2001 legislation."

Breitbart.com : Hoyer: Permanent middle class tax cuts too costly

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:14:26 +0000

That's a great idea! In fact, let's eliminate the entire military and use some of the money we save to send proflowers to Hamas and Kim Jong and Putin and hope they like us. If it doesn't work we'll all be DEAD, but hey, at least we'll FEEL good about ourselves. Frankly I'd say spending a trillion on military power to keep my children safe is a far better investment than spending a trillion on phony pork-barrel projects and ending up with nothing more than a one-way, dead-end toll road in Orlando named after our marxist-in-chief.

Big Government : ‘Emergency Education Jobs Bill’ is Really a Union Dues Bailout Bill

Thu, 6 May 2010 15:41:29 +0000

"Who's for the kids and who's for their raises?" - Chris Christie

Big Government : Why We Should Support Arizona

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:29:17 +0000

and his position on immigration ... "IMMIGRATION: “Legal immigration has been a great source of strength and prosperity for America, but I believe illegal immigration threatens the foundation of this system. If I had been in the Senate at the time, I would have opposed the McCain-Kennedy bill. I believe we must fix our immigration system by first securing the border, fixing the visa and entry process and opposing amnesty in any reform.”" It's clear he's basing his initial reaction to the AZ law from WHAT HE READ IN NEWS REPORTS, which we all know are spun and spun and spun. The fact is he's concerned about the position it puts law enforcement in and that it's possibly another avenue for government overreach. Personally, from all I've seen, he's solidly against amnesty in any form. Get the facts before jumping ship on a solid conservative. It's no wonder the government is trying to regulate salt ... everything that comes out of this regime and the MSM need to be taken with a pound of it.

Big Government : Why We Should Support Arizona

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:28:51 +0000

For those ready to take the MSM reports like "Rubio comes out against AZ law" from lib outlets like thinkprogress as truth, you should read his actual statement ... "From what I have read in news reports, I do have concerns about this legislation. While I don’t believe Arizona’s policy was based on anything other than trying to get a handle on our broken borders, I think aspects of the law, especially that dealing with ‘reasonable suspicion,’ are going to put our law enforcement officers in an incredibly difficult position. It could also unreasonably single out people who are here legally, including many American citizens. Throughout American history and throughout this administration we have seen that when government is given an inch it takes a mile."

Big Government : Obama’s Tangled Webs

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:08:28 +0000

huh ... now this is weird too ... seems GM paid off their taxpayer funded bailout with funds from (wait for it) the same taxpayer funded bailout. And BHO says Wall Street is corrupt? Letter to Geitner from Grassley ... "The bottom line seems to be that the TARP loans were “repaid” with other TARP funds in a Treasury escrow account. The TARP loans were not repaid from money GM is earning selling cars, as GM and the Administration have claimed in their speeches, press releases and television commercials. "

Big Government : Obama’s Tangled Webs

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:53:50 +0000

Obama ... "Some on Wall Street forgot that behind every dollar traded or leveraged, there is a family looking to buy a house, pay for an education, open a business or save for retirement." If there are families behind every dollar traded or leveraged, what's behind every dollar confiscated in taxes?

Big Government : White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:57:26 +0000

The only surprising thing is that Orwell was off by 26 years ... "Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. "

Big Government : Climate Deal: Strike Two For Obama in Copenhagen

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:53:08 +0000

Dave you poor uninformed troll ... you should check out www.petitionproject.org for a list of scientists who know that AGW is a fraud. Far from a "flash in the pan" website. Would you care to share your list of scientists who claim AGW is real?

Big Government : Is it Always Better to Have Health Insurance?

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:19:37 +0000

"In an ideal world, everyone would be insured." Being "insured" and getting treatment are two VERY different things. Lots of people have coverage through medicaid, or the VA or through Indian Health Service. Ask them how easy it is to get treated (or actually read the article about how Medicaid requires referrals from the primary and won't allow treatment without it). Just because they're "covered" doesn't mean they're going to get treated. Quite the contrary actually. Their coverage very likely will delay or deny treatment.

Big Government : ACORN, the Working Families Party and Political Corruption, Part I

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:57:06 +0000

"The other main Progressive America Fund project is the National Open Ballot Project, which is geared toward supporting efforts to get cross-endorsement fusion voting legalized elsewhere across the country, and has helped foster nascent Working Families parties in up to 10 other states." Yippie ... WFP coming to your State soon!

Big Government : Obama’s Four Flimsy Budget Cutting Ideas

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:44:31 +0000

No doubt the money spent by OMB soliciting, collecting, summarizing and studying these ideas was more than the potential savings of them all ... combined. How very surprising.

Big Government : ObamaCare: HCAN Proudly Suppressing Dissent

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:33:56 +0000

Classic liberal response. And your proof that both sides do this is where? I've seen dozens of videos of this type of behavior from the left, but none demonstrating conservatives acting this way. Perhaps you could link us to something that proves your point.

Big Government : Obama’s Labor Department Gives Big Labor and Its Front Groups Another Gift

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:39:09 +0000

Did he say transparent? ... Sorry, he meant invisible, as in "we won't let you see what we're doing."

Big Government : Obama: King of All Statists

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 02:20:09 +0000

JWN ... "In academia, you must create/discover new knowledge/ideas to be considered successful. " Not to paint too broad a stroke, but all too often, academic "success" is measured in the grants brought in to the institution and not on the success (or even appropriateness or usefulness) of the research. Just ask Phil Jones or Michael Mann.

Big Government : Obama: King of All Statists

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:45:13 +0000

2008 ... hard to remember, but wasn't that a year when Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate? I agree ... pretty bad year due to over-regulation of the financial sector by Bawney and his ilk. Good point twines.

Big Government : Time to Pass The Buck and Start Pointing Fingers: Obama Living Up to His Absentee Legislator Past

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:18:48 +0000

I heard this same thing. Holder does not have the authority. The fact that the Teleprompter-in-Chief is claiming it's not his call just goes to show how completely dishonest he is. Lying is a problem-solving technique for this guy. The word needs to be spread that this decision could only have come from "The Won".

Big Government : ACORN Oklahoma Document Dump: ACORN's Doorknocking Basics

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:31 +0000

"to organize to hold corporations and the government accountable to low & moderate income people" "to bring in extra revenue to the organization" What idiot put those two goals next to each other? It amounts to ... Step 7: convince them they're owed government money Step 8: milk them for as much money as you can get from them