Governor Martin O' Malley of Maryland   Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has approved 40 new and increased taxes and fees since he took office in 2007 that are projected to cost Marylanders $9.5 billion through fiscal 2014.   "Nobody expected the total impact to be this staggering, not even me," said Larry Hogan, founder of conservative group Change Maryland, which compiled a report on the increases. That's a lot of new taxes. No wonder Maryland lost the most residents in the mid-Atlantic between 2007 ... Read More

Obama the Senator, against raising the debt ceiling. Obama the president, FOR. In 2011, Obama the President said, " “What we said was give us $1.2 trillion in additional revenues, which could be accomplished without hiking taxes — tax rates — but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and engaging in a tax reform process that could have lowered rates generally while broadening the base.” In 2012, the Congress presents him with that same plan, and Jim Carney, ... Read More

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” President Obama, September 12, 2008   I guess as time goes on, we will continue to learn what was inside that MAMMOTH health care bill that Obama "gifted" to us. From GOP.GOV Beginning January 1, 2013, ObamaCare imposes a 3.8% Medicare tax ... Read More

Most of us are familiar with the Blame Bush policies of the Obama Administration. As the graphic to the left clearly points out, that's about all this president has to offer for the down slide of the economy and people's hopes right along with it. I read a very informative article that reminds us that while Obama is busy blaming Bush, as Senator, he actually VOTED FOR the Bush budgets. Let's not forget that. Obama voted for the budgets he would later ... Read More

Did you know that our Olympians have to pay taxes on their winnings? From the Weekly Standard: "...our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough to win any medals in London. Even by the standards of our government, the numbers are insane. For instance: Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best ... Read More

When you think of Al Sharpton, what words come to mind? Baptist minister? Civil rights activist?  Talk show host? A lot of times he attacks others and give the impression he does no wrong. A recent finding shows he earns a lot of money from his non profit organization. How does that work? And just like a lot of other loudmouth liberals, seems to owe money in taxes. How do they keep doing that? Insist the rest of us pay our ... Read More

No matter that his other stimulus ideas haven't worked to help create jobs. Obama is now sounding desperate rather than his usual arrogant when coming up with ways to take your money.   Classic narcissism. ... Read More

The headlines are looking grim on the economy. Drudge's  headline of  "BARACKALYPSE NOW" was ringing true. Riots are breaking out in England, our credit rating went down with a threat of another, the Dow tanked then went up and down, people are calling their 401 k, their 201 k's, the dollar tumbles, and people are showing up in numbers of 10,000 to job fairs; it's a real mess. With all of this, there is a lot of blame going on, back and ... Read More

SMH as my daughter would say. (Shake My Head) Our country will soon join a list of bankrupt and broken societies and yet this foolishness and folly knows no end in this administration, and the ones before it - yet it promised change. We are getting our change, a once prosperous and hopeful nation, buried under DEBT. We are losing our sense of fairness because preferential treatment seems to go to common criminals. From Washington Times: One construction company that won multiple awards of money under ... Read More

Who makes more profit out of a gallon of gas? The oil companies or the government? The average profit, using EXXON as an example, per gallon looks like this: Consider this too, the government makes more than the oil companies and they don't even do the work. They don't take the risks involved, they just take from the people. Also consider, the states are supposed to use some of this money to improve road conditions. Have you seen the conditions of the ... Read More

In January, President Obama named Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive, to head the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. “He understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy,” Mr. Obama said. Ok, let's review that for a moment, because if we all acted as Mr. Immelt, and his example, we would none of us pay taxes, and THEN where would Obama and the dem's billions of porky programs be??? General Electric, the nation’s ... Read More

Paul sent this to my email today, it just made so much sense! When you think of it, it really is us (300,000,000) against THEM, (545 people). 545  PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation ... Read More

From Investors.com Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers.Through the end of this year, the federal estate tax rate is zero — thanks to the package of broad-based tax cuts that President Bush ... Read More

More proof of a system that is too big to even govern itself? From ABC News Working for Uncle Sam comes with some great perks, like job stability, posh benefits packages, and in many cases, average salaries that are higher than what the same job pays in the private sector. Rep. Jason Chaffetz from Utah opts to sleep on a cot in his D.C. office. That's why Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is irked that nearly 100,000 civilian federal employees owe the IRS $962 ... Read More

ACORN Workers explain how 'prostitute,' 'pimp' can avoid taxes. ... Read More

According to The Heritage Foundation, the Top Ten Reasons Obamacare is Wrong for America: 1. Millions Will Lose Their Current Insurance: President Obama wants Americans to believe they can keep their insurance if they like. Proposed economic incentives, plus a government-run health plan would cause 88.1 million people to see their current employer-sponsored health plan disappear. 2. Your Health Care Coverage Will Probably Change Anyway: Even if you keep your private insurance, eventually most remaining plans will have to conform to new ... Read More

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " Thomas Jefferson Some people quote the above this way: "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Misquote or not, to me, they say the same thing. Having said all that, now we have the Obama administration wishing to add unlimited ... Read More

As if Obama's Cap and Trade Tax, further ruining our economy isn't bad enough, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. So China is really smart, they refuse to join the west in what could be called economic suicide, then they allow us to pay for their emissions? China LOVES the idea! Brilliant! According to Hot Air: The US does not need to pay for China’s carbon emissions, even if the “greenhouse effect” ... Read More

From the Wall Street Journal: Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%. Governor Martin O'Malley, a dedicated class warrior, declared that these richest 0.3% of filers were "willing and able to ... Read More

Chris and Jim sent me this today. This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday.  The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?" Dear Mr. President: Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.  You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There ... Read More

Pledge Broken To be sure, Obama's tax promises in last year's campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always. "I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of ... Read More

Reading an article today by Paul Craig Roberts, this line stood out, "The "free American" starts off with a 30% tax rate, the position of a medieval serf." The premise of his article is to show that what the Obama administration is really doing is "taxing ordinary people in order ... Read More

While on the campaign trail, more and more people in Obama's past and present seemed dubious at best. Racist preachers and terrorist co-worker to mention two. Now that he is elected, and especially after promising ethics reform, (barring lobbyist from his administration), he would, usher in a new age of responsibility. Curious then, how he found at least three people for cabinet positions that didn't pay their taxes over years, had illegal aliens in their employ, and a lobbyist for a military contractor who is now ... Read More

For some, news headlines must be very confusing. For those who didn't know their own minds, they could spend a lot of time going around in circles... TAKE BIRTH CONTROL....or...NOT? Yesterday, a large headline appeared next to Nanny Pelosi's image, where she insisted that part of the 800+ Billion stimulous package needed to be thrown at Family Planning, birth control, THAT, she was sure would help the economy. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control ... Read More

My Way News Story President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation. Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced his nomination in November, an Obama transition official said. The unpaid taxes were discovered by Obama's transition team while investigating Geithner's background, the official said. The ... Read More

Lifted from a very funny blogger, HockeyDino Obama just spent $650,000,000 to get a job that pays $400,000. Yes we want him to fix the economy! CAPITAL GAINS TAX MCCAIN 0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax. OBAMA 28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes If you ... Read More

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ~ Ronald Reagan Congress continues to live up to its 10% approval rating and passed the Senate version of the bailout bill last night. The bill that started out as only 3 pages long (It's now the length of a novel) has some interesting items attached to it: New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill. - Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) - Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) - 6 page ... Read More

While we consider big Oil and the price of gas (petrol)... Oh by the way, did you know that big oil companies DON'T control the majority of the oil, about 70 - 90% is owned by, guess what. GOVERNMENTS, depending how you count it. Now it all starts to make sense: Yet Big Oil is pretty small next to the industry's true giants: the national oil companies (NOCs) owned or controlled by the governments of oil-rich countries, which manage over 90% of the world's ... Read More

Google is considering taking its supercomputers on barges offshore. They would use wave power to cool and give electricity to their computers. Brilliant. Something tells me that isn't the only benefit though, as offshore would mean not paying propery taxes. Google isn't the only internet company looking for solutions and coming up with some odd locations for their data centers. The supercomputers housed in the data centres, which can be the size of football pitches, use massive amounts of electricity to ensure they do ... Read More

I saw on FoxNews this morning that the diplomats living in New York City repeatedly refuse to pay for parking tickets that they have received from illegal parking. Also, it goes beyond that, they buy property here in the U.S. and they also refuse to pay for their property taxes as well. This is where Diplomatic Immunity  fares well for those who refuse to pay. No wonder NYC had to create a toll for those wanting to come into the city, it's to ... Read More

Apparently, "Nanny" Pelosi made a promise to reduce gas prices: In a press release dated April 24, 2006, Pelosi said, “Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.” I think it's time that someone pointed out that the price of gasoline has spiked $1.18 since ... Read More

  It seems Hillary Clinton's campaign is short of money, and while it seems to me that they could tighten up with the $6,000 a night at the Bellagio and the tremendous steak and lobster dinners, she was found out to have taken 5 million of her own money and put it to her campaign. Which had people asking, "Where did that money come from?" The Clintons have made some disclosures, which reveal only broad ranges of assets, place her and former President ... Read More

  Today I was in the rare position of being in the car alone, and with no teen in sight, I got to move the radio to AM Talk Radio. I heard the following warning: “In today’s State of the State Address, Martin O’Malley spoke of ‘protecting our priorities.’  Unfortunately, O’Malley’s priorities are not the priorities of Marylanders.  While O’Malley continues down the path of out-of-control government spending, higher taxes, and according to today’s newspapers yet another hike in utility rates, Marylanders want ... Read More

  This is not a new story, in fact it is rather nauseatingly old; government waste of our hard earned dollars. In light of how several of our presidential candidates would like government run health care, I read the following two headlines easily imagining how badly they could waste tax dollars in the name of medicine for all. D.C. officials got improper bonuses two dozen senior D.C. officials received more than $500,000 in cash bonuses, contrary to the rules, near the end of ... Read More

  "Some men rob you with a six-gun, others with a fountain pen." I am a little behind blogging on this news story. There are days our government can carry on antics with the speed of lightning, making it difficult for us bloggers to keep up.  And these are only the antics we hear of. With the taxpayers money though, every little cent should be accountable, however recently, there was a million dollar spending bill on the floor and no one actually KNEW about its ... Read More