Category Archives: President
Reality Based Election
Opposition research shows that in the past The Donald has supported single payer health insurance.
Don’t Tax You, Don’t Tax Me, Tax that Fellow Behind the Tree*
According to The IRS, 45% pay no income tax. The richest 1% earn 22% of all the money and pay 38% of all the federal income taxes. The richest 5% pay 60% of all the income taxes.
You could squeeze them for more but, as Walter Williams points out, the rich are smart with their money. Since 1960, whether the top marginal rate was 91% or 35%, the government take never varied more than 15-20 percent of GDP.
Horse Sense
I got this idea from a Rich Lowry column.
Osama bin Laden famously talked of the weak horse and the strong horse. Obama is the show horse.
For the record, the Show Horse picked Kansas to beat Ohio State in the March Madness final in April.
