Romney didn’t apologize for [his] comments, instead he doubled down, saying that his opponent, President Barack Obama, believes in “redistributing wealth,” while “we believe in free people and free enterprise.” Democrats “believe you have to take from some and give to others. I don’t believe in that,” he said, repeating the same theme. “I believe […]

Following the release of the video of Romney denouncing (among other things) the fact that 47% of  US households don’t pay positive US Federal Income Taxes many normally reliable commentators have argued that this is a break from the long Republican tradition of advocating tax cuts for the working poor to make work pay.  I […]

(Dan here…Afferent Input started to write for Angry Bear but was subsequently uprooted with family to live and thrive in Germany for a few years, and gave up blogging.  He and a now bigger family have moved back to the States, so may begin to blog again.  Welcome back AI! ) by Afferent Input Romney […]

One side has no point. I have mentioned from time to time the repeated Gallup polls showing strong support for tax progressivity.  this is not a new phenomenon, Gallup started asking the questions in 1992.I tend to give an almost worthless link to pollingreport.com but I have finally looked up a decent link There is […]

This summer’s widespread drought has been extremely hard on Midwestern and plains-states crop farmers, and many of them are chafing at the thought of having to take responsibility for their own lives if the Farm Bill doesn’t make it through Congress before the upcoming recess. They had panicked earlier in the summer when Congress was […]

I was forwarded an early look at a survey that was produced by George Washington University’s School of Political Management in conjunction with Thumbtack.com. As some readers know, I am an honest to goodness small business owner. Two business actually and they are as different as say a private practice physician and a florist. So…………I […]

Are Richard Williamson and John Bolton—two of Romney’s three main foreign-policy advisors, and reportedly the two most influential—Jewish?  Really? Or are they simply under the influence of Dan Senor and other manipulative neocon Jews?  Sorta like Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were. Oh, please. —- WARNING: Every word of the above post except the last […]

I was hopeful that some of our better-known companions would be smart enough to ignore the attempt by McMegan (University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor’s in English Literature, mid-1990s) to argue, in a magazine that aspires to be People, that going to college—and most especially getting a degree in the Liberal Arts—is not cost-effective. We can forgive […]

Adventures in cyberspace. My 15 year old daughter Kathy has to buy a TI-84 calculator for school.     So she was on Amazon.com.   We have recently semi moved and I didn’t exactly know the address    where I am typing.   I asked her if she knew our zip code.  She said, “How […]

 Atrios is an economist and reminds us of an option not taken: I don’t think Bernanke can legally start mailing checks tous, though I think when he hits the “emergency powers” button he canprobably do just about anything, but it isn’t said often enough by theright people that there are alternatives to giving free money tobanks, such […]