Economics
If you think a “balanced approach” is the right way to go, let’s take a brief look at headlines concerning Connecticut tax revenue in early 2011 as compared stories this week.
I have a hunch my newsreader feed will once again be populated with posts about this afternoon’s Washington Post story referencing House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) refreshed openness to accepting new revenue. Oh joy.
Tomorrow is election day. Are you ready? Are you still undecided? Well perhaps this may just put some things into perspective for you.
We, as voters, are confronted with two distinct theories of taxation in the upcoming election. Our choice will frame our future, so let’s look back for guidance.
Would you rather have NO gasoline at yesterday’s price of $3.89 or a few gallons of gas available today so you can get out of the path of the storm for $6.89 a gallon today? It’s really a simple choice, but we’re already seeing stories about price gouging in south Florida and the Gulf states.…
Ever wonder how the flacks and hacks make their millions while in Congress? Here’s how: “In 2004, the senator made $700,000 off a land deal that was, to say the least, unorthodox. It started in 1998 when he bought a parcel of land with attorney Jay Brown, a close friend whose name has surfaced multiple…
He’s got no problem paying more taxes so “his country will grow,” but once he hears the French president is suggesting a 75 percent tax on income of more than $1 million Euros, he balks.
As my brother said today on his show, today would have been Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday. He passed away in 2006. He won the Nobel Prize in economics for 1976, 200 years after our country began. He believed firmly in the economic principles of our founding.