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Taxes and Business Creation

by cactus Taxes and Business Creation When you cut taxes, it leads to the creation of new businesses. By cutting taxes, people keep more of their hard earned money which gives them the resources to start new businesses. The cut in taxes also encourages people to take more risk knowing the fruit of their efforts […]

More Haiti

The flak started quickly. Rusty suggested taking Red Cross training and being part of the solution—the very solution that can’t reach the country. kharris compared me (un?)favorably to The Drudge Report for saying (after Robert Gates did) that the delivery obstruction was “deliberate.” The problem is the evidence keeps mounting—and it’s all on my side. […]

Massachusetts senate election

There is a light snow at the moment. While the snow and icy roads are cleared here from yesterday, we shall see what kind of weather unfolds throughout the day. The phone has been ringing steadily over the week end and Monday, with volunteer or robo calls from both senate candidates Martha Coakley and Scott […]

New Orleans, without the SCA

Via Constance, I see that the donations are pouring in. Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), Partners in Health, even the American Red Cross. There is supply. And there is clearly demand. But it appears that delivery is being deliberately impeded: As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the […]

Too much wealth?

by Linda Beale Too much wealth? more dialogue on the issue Several days ago, Jim Maule ran a post on the disproportionate number of wealthy Congress members–44% are millionaires, compared to about 1% of the population at large. A Tax Policy Determination Clue (Jan. 6, 2010). I picked that post up in the context of […]

Charlie Stross Explains It All to You

The rest is details: The reason I choose to pay through the nose for my computers is very simple: unlike just about every other manufacturer in the business, Apple appreciate the importance of good industrial design. but they’re nice details. (posted from my daughters’s “new” G4, which needs a new keyboard, but has a right […]

AARP sent me this message

Did you know that next week the Senate will vote on an amendment that could mean the future of Social Security and Medicare would be decided for us without an open and public debate? I just told my senators to oppose the Conrad-Gregg amendment, which if passed would give a special commission the power to […]