April 23, 2009

Don't Worry: The President Has Your Back

President Obama ended his press conference yesterday with these words of reassurance to CIA agents who were involved in interrogations of terrorist captives following 9/11:For those who carried out some of these operations within the four corners of ...

March 27, 2009

Obama, Charity, and Fairness

Leave it to Barack Obama to justify a tax proposal that would significantly reduce the amounts going to charity -- on grounds the proposal is necessary for "fairness."  In his press conference on March 24, the president offered this ex...

March 6, 2009

The Obama Double Tax Whammy

President Obama's proposal to provide only a 28 percent benefit for charitable contributions by top-bracket taxpayers is part of a double whammy, since he proposes at the same time to raise the top bracket from 35 to 39.6 percent.  The double-ba...

October 31, 2008

Spreading the Wealth and Killing the Goose

Larry King:  Concerning spreading the wealth, isn't the graduated income tax spreading the wealth? ....Senator McCain:  Well, that's spreading the wealth in the respect that we do have a graduated income tax.  That's a far cry from tak...