by David SafierI wrote a post about tax hikes, estate taxes and Tea Partiers. In it, I approximated the amount an estate has to be worth before it's taxed at $1 million. A reader corrected me. A single person's estate has to reach $3.5 million before it's taxed. For a couple, it's $7 million. The … Read more
by David SafierWhat the hell. Why not give Obama credit for the lowered crime rate? No one has a better reason. Violent crime has plummeted in the Washington area and in major cities across the country, a trend criminologists describe as baffling and unexpected. The article doesn't give Obama credit, and no sensible social scientist … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Obama addressed health care reform on Monday at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. Obama directly challenged the partisan comment from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) last week. Text of prepared Remarks by the President on Health Care at Children's Hospital (excerpt): Now, there are some in this town who are content to … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Senators just had to hold a premature hearing with the CBO chief Doug Elmendorf last Friday before the senate committees working on health care reform even have a bill to vote on. The resultant headlines were what one has come to expect from the corporate media villagers and Beltway bloviators. The headlines … Read more
by David SafierThere's something that's always confused me, and it hit me as I looked across Swan last Friday at the Tea Party demonstrators. I saw signs reading "Taxed Enough Already." Then I looked at the people in the crowd and asked myself, "How many of them make over $300,000 a year or have estates … Read more