Category: Taxation

The Great Bamboozle

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of it; we’re no longer interested in finding out the truth; the bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Massaging the Truth

By now you’ve more than likely figured out that Media coverage of anything coming out of D.C. is tainted.  The same holds true in all the fear mongering about the debt ceiling.  The truth is not nearly as cut-and-dry as…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

The Games Politicians Play

Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia wanted regulatory reform, in part, he claimed, to reverse some of Biden’s reversals of Trump-era reforms for fossil fuel projects.  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer needed Manchin’s vote to enact Biden’s cash cow for…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Is There Anything The Left Won’t Fund?

Nancy Pelosi recently announced that the Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act, aka the Completes Act the House recently passed, will make America more competitive with China. What she forgot to mention is that everything…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Spin, Lie, Duck and Dodge

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”  Thomas Sowell The Fed insists that persistent high inflation, clocking in at its highest level…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Who Hates America More Than Biden?

Writing in “The Mountain Democrat,” a Lake Tahoe regional website, Larry Weitzman asks the question in the title of his article – “Who hates America more? Russia, China or Joe Biden and Democrats?” Some might say that it is only…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Manipulating Inflation Numbers

Imagine a world in which I was legally allowed to steal 13–30% of your wealth every single year, and lie to you about how much I’m stealing.  Welcome to Planet Earth, 2021.  Strange Sounds The U.S. has fallen to 20th…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

It Isn’t About Unpaid Taxes

Remember Biden’s scheme to monitor everyone’s checking account because taxpayers were hiding unreported income? Apparently the peasants and their banks weren’t thrilled with the idea.  Imagine that! In rides Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, with a plan to save…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

The Government Family Plan

No amount of money can replace the moral problems that plague society.  John Horvat II Biden, working on the so-called American Families Plan is facing pressure from Pelosi and Bernie Sanders over whether to use the plan to strengthen ObamaCare…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

I’ll Be Watching You!

In addition to all the new taxes Biden needs to bankroll his $3.5 trillion budget he wants to give the IRS the right to monitor your  banking accounts.  And it’s more than just an occasional glance to see what’s in…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Build Back What!!!!!

Deficit Spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth. Alan Greenspan The Tax Foundation estimates that Biden’s “Build Back Better” tax and spending legislation will reduce long-run economic output by 0.98%, and eliminate 303,000 full-time equivalent jobs.…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Will Virginians Be Able to Keep the Lights On?

Some people oppose industrial offshore development of wind farms because they will harm their ocean view. Some oppose them because they will result in higher electricity rates. Others oppose them because they will hurt commercial fishing, resulting in the destruction…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email

Sticking It To The Rich?

Bernie Sanders claims that those who have billions shouldn’t exist because, as a true socialist, he believes that if the state taxes wealth away from those in possession of an “unacceptable” amount of wealth and then redistributes it to lower…

Print Friendly, PDF & Email