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Income Tax Should Help Us Pay For Our Values and Beliefs

Last update December 10, 2018Leave a Comment

Income tax is one of those painful things that should happen to other people. There will always be reasons we should pay less and others should pay more. As taxpayers we don’t have much say one way or the other. Washington will spend our money as it sees fit, though despite what we like to think much of that spending is mandatory, not discretionary.

Filed Under: Government Ethics Tagged With: federal budget

Debt and Spending Blame Game a Winner for Both Parties

Last update August 31, 2020Leave a Comment

Every time we choose a new president we decide our nation’s future, or at least that’s what we are told. It’s almost never true. Even the brashest, most out of control presidential act can be stopped dead in its tracks by a simple court decision.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: federal budget

Cancer is Important, but Other Things Must Come First

Last update June 19, 2017Leave a Comment

If someone close to you has died from cancer or if you have been diagnosed, you know all too well that curing cancer is important. Cancer changes lives in ways that can never be repaired. Keeping this in mind, were you amused or offended by the newest grab from our lame duck president for more space in the history books?

Filed Under: Health Care Tagged With: federal budget

12 Reasons Crisis Government is the Best We Get

Last update November 4, 2015Leave a Comment

When you have a problem and don’t know how to solve it, should you give up? Giving up seldom fails to bring failure but it works in Washington, where crisis government seems to be the only kind we have and the best we’re going to get.

Filed Under: Big Government Tagged With: federal budget

Can Liberalism Buy Enough Debt With Hate?

Last update March 21, 2015Leave a Comment

Don’t blame the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for what liberalism is doing to America. At best they are has-beens and puppets for the real agitators, the ones with the power to persuade, to divide, and to force the country to follow their dictates.

Filed Under: Race in America Tagged With: federal budget

Rewarding Criminals and Scorning the Will of the People

Last update December 13, 2014Leave a Comment

There is no better time to give up that dead end career wearing a paper hat and stuffing French fries in bags. Finally, criminals are going to be rewarded for making a worthwhile life choice. They won’t have to worry about the will of the people being heard in Washington and getting in the way of causing pain, property loss, suffering, and death.

Filed Under: American Ideals and Values Tagged With: federal budget, Republicans

Progressive Tax Reform Will Make More Spending Affordable?

Last update November 27, 2014Leave a Comment

Does progressive tax reform mean an end to government waste, or does it mean more money to spend to make up for what our federal and state bureaucracies lose? Backers of a progressive tax fix for federal and state budgets focus on more revenue for the middle and lower classes.

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: federal budget, federal deficit, government waste

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