AZ BlueMeanie Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The White House has a handy-dandy new online calculator that allows you to produce a "receipt" showing you how your federal tax dollars are spent. Your 2010 Federal Taxpayer Receipt | The White House: In his State of the Union Address, President Obama promised that this year, for the first time ever, … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Tax expert David Cay Johnston has an excellent essay this week about the 9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes: For three decades we have conducted a massive economic experiment, testing a theory known as supply-side economics. The theory goes like this: Lower tax rates will encourage more … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: You have all heard the Tea-Publican mantra repeated ad nauseam: "We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem." This of course is a lie. They don't want you looking at corporate and wealthy tax cheaters who do not pay taxes. They want you to blame the poor and those receiving government … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: As I posted the other day, Tea-Publicans 'All In' for Ryan Express Trainwreck: "You want to get crazy? Let's get crazy!" That seems to be the emotional maturity of Tea-Publicans. The L A Times reports that the TanMan, the Weeper of The House, and the House Tea-Publican Caucus are "all in" for … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The thing that amazes me the most about Arizona's twin embarassments, Sen. Obstruction, Jon Kyl, and Sen. McNasty, John McCain, is that they seem to be totally unaware that there is such a thing as sound recordings and video recordings — since Thomas Edison — let alone modern electronic media like YouTube. … Read more