Archives for the 'taxes' Category
Never Trust A Legislature …
Published on 19 Sep 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under booze, dogs, taxes.
That wants to tax your dog. Boston Herald:
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Mystery Fog Over Boston
Published on 12 Aug 2009 at 1:55 pm.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, taxes.
My worthy adversaries at the Boston Globe marvel at the “mystery fog” that settled over Boston yesterday afternoon, shutting down Logan International Airport for several hours. It wasn’t that big a mystery. As the fanciful, horror flick-citing weather story eventually gets around to partially explaining, when you have a mass of hot humid air over cold water, you [...]
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30 Percent Rage
Published on 22 May 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, moronocy, taxes.
Howie Carr’s “Hate To Say I Told You So” to the 70 percent of Massachusetts voters who blocked the elimination of the state income tax last November. Boston Herald:
Value Not Added
Published on 20 May 2009 at 9:55 am.
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Filed under Boston, Europe, hacks, taxes.
Nor expected any time soon. Commenter Simonwise helpfully notes in the “I just got mugged” post below that Massachusetts’ 6.25 percent sales tax is nothing. It’s 21.5 percent Value Added Tax in Ireland.
He’s got a point. Theoretically, if they tried that around here, they’d have to add some value. With our pending 25 percent hike in the sales [...]
I Just Got Mugged
Published on 19 May 2009 at 10:10 pm.
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Filed under Boston, taxes.
Massachusetts’ one-party government just passed a veto-proof sales tax hike … up 25 percent from 5 percent to 6.25 percent. The corrupt bastards did not care to do any heavy lifting on pensions, bennies or do-nothing jobs. Too traumatic. Better to chisel it out of people – voters or taxpayers if you like, around here you might [...]
Big Mother
Published on 10 May 2009 at 8:13 am.
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Filed under Obama, medicine, taxes.
Obama admin eyes new taxes on economy-driving businesses, investing classes to pay for socialized medicine. Fox:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will propose $60 billion in new tax increases over 10 years on wealthy estates, businesses and others to make up for shortfalls in its fund to pay for an expensive overhaul of the health-care system.
The measures [...]
The Great Michael Caine
Published on 28 Apr 2009 at 11:06 am.
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Filed under Britain, Hollywood, Man Who Would Be King, taxes.
Star of the greatest film ever made (The Man Who Would Be King*) son of a charwoman and a fishmarket porter, Korean War combat vet, self-made man and still one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, Michael Caine slams Labour’s love of taxes. via Iain Martin at UK Telegraph:
“The Government has taken tax up to 50 per [...]
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Grassroots Length Comparison
Published on 15 Apr 2009 at 1:00 pm.
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Filed under Obama, taxes.
It’s kind of a political studliness contest. Anyone doing the math on how the turn out on the amorphous thing know as the national Tea Party is going compared to Obama’s big mega-email and doorknocking campaign last month to drum up pro-spending rage?
My money’s on Tea Party. OK, quick Google news check.
Ambinder, April 2, Atlantic Online:
When Terry McAuliffe was [...]
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Happy Tax Day
Published on 15 Apr 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under Obama, taxes.
Celebrate at a Tea Party near you! Reynolds on what it’s about. Wall Street Journal:
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not [...]
Stripper Tax
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under sex, taxes.
Let’s see, cover charge, $5 a beer, some appreciative ones for the ladies’ garters, $10 for the state. Hang on … I thought the deal was look, don’t touch. Not supposed to be paying to get screwed when you go to a strip joint. $10 should come with at least half a lap dance.
Not unrelatd: a Texas man’s [...]
Because The Economy Hasn’t Tanked Enough
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 12:48 pm.
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Filed under Obama, taxes, warmalism.
Geithner attacks oil, gas tax breaks for warmally incorrect companies. Reuters.
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HHS
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 11:14 am.
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Filed under Obama, mockery, taxes.
“So long, White House gig, my taxes are in order.” Cruel mockery from Howie Carr, who cleared his latest audit. He may be out of the running for any Obama Cabinet post. But he’s gotta be on anyone’s shortlist for Hurtful Hilarity Servedup.
Policy Failure Wanted
Published on 4 Mar 2009 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under Obama, taxes, warmalism.
You’ll never guess who wants Obama’s tax policy to fail. via Yahoo:
Sigh
Published on 27 Feb 2009 at 9:28 am.
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Filed under hacks, pols, taxes.
It used to be all the jokes were about Taxachusetts. Hey, we still are Taxachusetts. Advancing to Feeachusetts and Tollachusetts. But now all the meanspirited rightwing nutjobs are making jokes about Chicago. It’s shocking the left. I see it as a little sad, end of an era. That Chicago crowd is just a bunch of strongarm thugs, [...]
Hacklash!
Published on 25 Feb 2009 at 12:17 pm.
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Filed under hacks, pols, taxes.
From a bullet through a city hall window in the wake of layoffs, to a pile of stinking fish on a mayoral doorstep in the Gorton Fisherman’s hometown, to earfuls in a gas station over the gas-tax hike proposal, pols are feeling the heat as they cut and tax in tough economic times. Boston Herald.
GOP Restoration Project
Published on 23 Feb 2009 at 10:09 am.
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Filed under Europe, taxes.
Proposed by lefty guest poster over at the Moderate Voice: “Let’s Grow Up And Raise Taxes.” Sage, carefully thought-out advice on how we can use the economic crisis to become more like Europe.
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iPod Tax?
Published on 17 Dec 2008 at 8:22 am.
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Filed under taxes.
What’s he trying to do, energize the youth vote? David Paterson plans to tax the daylights out of New Yorkers to make up a $15 billion state budget shortfall. Daily News:
Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages would be taxed under Paterson’s proposal. It also extends sales taxes to cable and satellite [...]
Putting On The Sitz
Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 9:07 am.
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Filed under ancient mysteries, assorted shit, butts, culture, deep thot, do-goodism, dummkopf!, elsewhere, engineering, explosives, ground views, law & order, moronocy, pot, science, shameless opportunism, song, taxes, western civilization.
Better late than never. It was World Toilet Day Nov. 19. I let it go at the time.* But now squatters are back in the news. The la-di-da loos of Times Square. AP via Boston Herald. I’m inspired:
Gas Tax
Published on 2 Nov 2008 at 9:25 pm.
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Filed under Obama, taxes, warmalism.
You’ve probably seen by now that Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry by taxing, charging fees, cap and trade auctions, whatever you want to call screwing the people who burn coal. Which in this country is just about everyone who flicks a lightswitch. Your energy cash will be sacrificed on the altar of global warming. [...]
Regular Joe
Published on 14 Oct 2008 at 11:57 pm.
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Filed under Obama, pols, taxes.
Ohio plumber buttonholes Obama on taxes. vid at Fox:
“His answer actually scared me even more … He said he wants to distribute wealth … that’s kind of a socialist viewpoint. I worked for that, it’s my discretion who I want to give it to. It’s not for the government to decide I make a little too [...]
Misery Index
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 2:36 pm.
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Filed under money, taxes.
With a nod to No Pasaran, we are as a function of economic policy less miserable than Europe, and most other places. And happier, too. Oddly, Russia, Georgia and South Africa are less miserable than us. OK then. As is usually the case with generalized rankings, various tangibles and intangibles are unaccounted for, and the statistical [...]
