I love it when the universe is in balance:  I've just had my taxes done.  Yes, I know it's 'technically' the last day today and each year I say that I'll do them earlier, but never do...  The expected rebate, less the tax agent's fee, is almost exactly the same amount left owing on my car. My tax refund will make Manfred all mine.  Yay!! Slightly spooky, but the Tax Office knows exactly how much...

The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable tax credit that gives money to low income workers.  It is paid for by the taxes paid by higher income earners.  Under John McCain's definition of such things, it's socialism.  The EITC was enacted in 1975 under Republican President Gerald Ford and vastly expanded by Ronald Reagan in 1986.  So under John McCain's definition of such things, Ford and Reagan...

Ordinary Joes have mixed feelings on wealth By ADAM GELLER – 5 days ago [...] A substantial majority of Americans say the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes, opinion polls show. A growing number say the U.S. is becoming a nation of haves and have-nots. The public's concerns reflect a shifting dynamic in recent years, as an increasing share of the wealth has gone to people at the top...

...record $13.2 billion QUARTERLY profit. "Why...", thundered the Fearless Drug-Addled Leader of the DittoHead Sheeple "did 'the media' not also report that they paid a record $33 million in quarterly taxes?" Well, I will admit, he got us on that one, you betchya. See, I did the quick math and 10% of 13,200,000,000 is 1,320,000,000 and 1% would be $132,000,000 and 1/10th of 1% would be $13,200,000...

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/fannie_Mae/2008/10/30/145739.html Former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Daniel Mudd wished he said "no" to more of the things the company was asked to do, he told...to the Republican National Committee. "I think they've made the determination that whatever money they have to refund on the back end doesn't outweigh the benefit of taking all this money upfront."

...5.3%. (Although, you can still voluntarily pay 5.85% if you want. I always get a chuckle out of that check box on the state tax form.) So, it seems unlikely that they'll actually just keep all other taxes the same and cut the 40% of the budget. But I bet they'll cut some things, overall taxes will be somewhat lower than they are now, and it at least sends a message that we're tired of paying for expensive...

Помните, я говорил , что левым насрать на персональные свободы в той же мере, что правым? Ну, добавьте туда же прайваси и свободу от государственого контроля за всем. Скажем, правые считают, что,... моих счетах, моих вложениях, - совершенно необходима, чтобы предотвратить такой ужас, как мое уклонение от налога, - каким образом я могу серьезно воспринимать его заботу о чьей-то прайваси?

I live on an island more than 1,000 miles from the nearest land mass, and I pay about the same for gasoline that residents of California do. Why? http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/gasolinepricesprimer/...have also occurred as a result of other fuel transitions. Yup. Government regulations and taxing. Who gets the blame, from the same leftists who caused this price spike? The "greedy" gas corporations

BackReAction urges us to get it straight : " Socialism aims to achieve a more just society by putting the means of production in the hands of the government, it is against privatization (though not...the human wish not to see your neighbors starve the moment they can no longer be productive, and recognizes that one day you might be in that same situation." You can read the whole (short) post here

...about the fiscal dangers that would accompany a Barack Obama presidency, but lately McCain has been picking on a lower-profile bogeyman to make his case . "And he can't do that without raising our taxes or digging us further into debt like Congressman Barney Frank promised to do," McCain said last night, causing a part-time rodeo arena to rumble with boos at the mention of the Massachusetts Democrat...