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Ayn Rand may have gotten it right when she wrote ATLAS SHRUGGED in 1957, 54 years ago. Atlas Shrugged ran for a total of 102min, rated PG-13.
Those words were not good news for those who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They may have been spoken in other space flights, but, the dilemma of Apollo 13 comes to mind as the most urgent.
The above headline is a bit misleading, but, so too, are 12 Democrat, and one Republican senators. Let me explain.
This past week much has been said and written about President Obama’s plan for Medicare, under Obamacare, and, Paul Ryan’s (R. Wi.) plan for Medicare outlined in his proposed budget. Rather than demagogue one or the other (I suspect we’ve all had enough of that at the moment), I thought I’d describe both plans, and let…
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of American Electric Power v. Connecticut. It is too bad that the Court’s proceedings aren’t televised as the debate here should be lively. First, you need to know the background.
All this talk about cutting “tax expenditures” got me a thinking. If the President has decided that now itemized deductions must go to help him cut the deficit, maybe it’s time we just chuck the entire tax code. The man behind the Laffer curve thinks so. Can you say 12%?
The battle lines have been drawn and it could get ugly. It’s one thing to tax millionaires, it’s another to go after deductions. Another third rail?