ADAM SCHIFF threatens 'inherent contempt' charges against the Trump administration. Judging from the polls, I'd hazard a guess that the electorate already holds Congress in inherent contempt.
I certainly do.
Friday, May 17, 2019
CONSERVATIVE CENSORSHIP: Not just another Google mistake.
These 'mistakes' from Google - and Twitter - and Facebook - are a bit too frequent and remarkably consistently anti-conservative....
These 'mistakes' from Google - and Twitter - and Facebook - are a bit too frequent and remarkably consistently anti-conservative....
A FEW DAYS AGO I happened to catch Melissa Francis, a Fox Business anchor, mentioning that when she first started out her state and federal income tax burden, monthly, was larger than the sum of her housing and food costs. That caught my attention, because income taxes, being withheld from our paychecks, are largely hidden from sight in our day-to-day financial affairs.
Except, of course, for that annual refund that comes from letting the IRS steal more during the year than they're owed....
So I decided to check my finances. I keep a pretty tight budget and so I know how much I spend on food, shelter, medical care, etc. Averaging over the last 10 years, my highest monthly expense, by far, is ... state and federal income taxes.
Pretty much what I would expect, given that I'm at the end of my career, not the beginning, as was with Ms. Francis at the beginning of her career, and my income is, of course, much higher. Housing (not including maintenance) was second as I recently moved have a new 15-year mortgage. Medical care was third (if I include the cost of insurance). Again probably expected, given my age. Food was last (by far) in this short list, but I expect that some of my other budget categories would be higher were I to delve a bit deeper.
Somewhat of a surprise was that taxes, shelter, and medical care took up the bulk of expenditures on the four categories I examined - about 30% each. Food, including dining out, filled out the remaining 10%.
But here is a real surprise: the burden of federal regulation amounts to a hidden tax of nearly $15,000 per household. Throw that in as a fifth category and taxes/regulatory burden would take up about 1/2 the total.
And they're hidden from view.
Except, of course, for that annual refund that comes from letting the IRS steal more during the year than they're owed....
So I decided to check my finances. I keep a pretty tight budget and so I know how much I spend on food, shelter, medical care, etc. Averaging over the last 10 years, my highest monthly expense, by far, is ... state and federal income taxes.
Pretty much what I would expect, given that I'm at the end of my career, not the beginning, as was with Ms. Francis at the beginning of her career, and my income is, of course, much higher. Housing (not including maintenance) was second as I recently moved have a new 15-year mortgage. Medical care was third (if I include the cost of insurance). Again probably expected, given my age. Food was last (by far) in this short list, but I expect that some of my other budget categories would be higher were I to delve a bit deeper.
But here is a real surprise: the burden of federal regulation amounts to a hidden tax of nearly $15,000 per household. Throw that in as a fifth category and taxes/regulatory burden would take up about 1/2 the total.
And they're hidden from view.
IT'S NOT THE BATHROOMS; IT'S THE PEOPLE: Portland’s plan to address homeless people using the streets as a bathroom is not a hit with neighbors.
But of course Portland's governing class is 'compassionate', meaning it can't address the underlying drug abuse/mental illness/victimization culture that puts people on the street without endangering its own virtue-signaling. (And control, but that's to be taken for granted.)
But of course Portland's governing class is 'compassionate', meaning it can't address the underlying drug abuse/mental illness/victimization culture that puts people on the street without endangering its own virtue-signaling. (And control, but that's to be taken for granted.)
DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ANDREW YANG and universal basic income. Yand was born in 1975 and has obviously neither read history nor science fiction, particularly science fiction. If he had even a passing familiarity with Mack Reynolds' United Planets and Bat Hardin novels he might begin to dimly comprehend why the Universal Basic Income is a bad idea.
If you define a generation as about 15 years, it's interesting to note that bad ideas (i.e., history) repeats itself about every 4th generation.
Even Mallard Fillmore gets it.
And now that history is no longer being taught, expect the repetition cycle to shorten even more....
If you define a generation as about 15 years, it's interesting to note that bad ideas (i.e., history) repeats itself about every 4th generation.
Even Mallard Fillmore gets it.
And now that history is no longer being taught, expect the repetition cycle to shorten even more....
ACCOUNTABILITY is for the little people.
Read 'little people' as non-Democrats and you'll have the correct interpretation....
Read 'little people' as non-Democrats and you'll have the correct interpretation....
THE BEST BREXIT STRATEGY: Leave first, then deal from a position of strength.
Positively Trumpian. Positively right.
Positively Trumpian. Positively right.
ABOUT $2-1/2 MILLION: How much money you need to be considered 'wealthy'.
So 'just a millionaire' Bernie can continue to demand that the rich be taxed more....
So 'just a millionaire' Bernie can continue to demand that the rich be taxed more....
FOX NEWS: Attorney General Barr mocks contempt push as 'circus', vows to uncover Russia probe origins.
Smart man. And correct on all counts.
Smart man. And correct on all counts.
AMMO GRRRLL: Toddlers (i.e.. progressives. -Ed.) know best.
Related random thought: Within the Democrat party, the adults have all left the room.
Related random thought: Within the Democrat party, the adults have all left the room.
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