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New York Times Op-Ed contributor Richard Conniff wrote a piece where he calls for us to abolish all taxes. his method for accomplishing this is to change the word taxes to dues. Conniff writes that this would take a page from the conservative play book where words are changed to reframe the debate. [...]

I received this via email and it is so accurate that I had to post it.
If you don’t understand the Democrats’ version of tax refunds, perhaps this will help explain it: 50,000 people went to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail [...]

The Beatles (a famous musical group for those of you too young) had a song about the Tax Man. They could have been talking about the Democratic Party in general but they must have known that Barack Obama was going to appear in the future because everything in that song could apply to his [...]

Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend’s wife said that hedge fund managers aren’t doing real work during a round table discussion. This must come as a shock to Chelsea Clinton who works for a hedge fund where I am sure she feels she works pretty hard. It is amazing that Hillary Clinton would tell people she [...]

Last November, Maryland’s Governor called a special session of the legislature in order to tackle a budget deficit that the same legislature was responsible for giving us. Governor O’Malley asked them to raise every tax imaginable and they obliged him by raising even more than he could have imagined. The Governor claimed that [...]