Just when you thought that the current congress and administration couldn’t channel George Bush any more to cover for their own significant issues, along comes the expiration of the ‘Bush Tax Cuts’ or as the Democrats call them, the ‘Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich’. This entire argument when Bush was in office was a [...]
Tags: Bush Tax Cuts, Democrat lies on taxes, Heritage foundation analysis
How many things are wrong with this picture? New York Senate Democrats are trying again to come up with a way to let State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) campuses charge more for tuition without getting legislative approval. I count at least three. 1. Democratic lawmakers are trying [...]
What follows is an email I got from Mark Kalinowski of the North New Jersey Tea Party Group. Fellow Tea Partiers, Should you have the time, we ask YOU to attend one of this Monday’s (July 12th’s) town hall meetings to be hosted by Steve Rothman, the U.S. congressman from New Jersey’s 9th congressional district. [...]
NJ.Com’s Chris Megerian points out some serious waste recently discovered by a comptroller audit: The state is spending $3.2 million a year on nearly 20,000 unused landlines and mobile phones, according to a comptroller report released Wednesday. That means about one of every six government phone lines isn’t needed. “Examples of government waste don’t get [...]
Someone on our local mailing list asked: Does anyone know which saves more jobs–increasing taxes to avoid firing any public employees, or downsizing government to decrease taxes? Someone loses jobs EITHER WAY in the short term, the question is which leads to more jobs overall so that everyone, even those that lose their jobs, has [...]