A camel walks through the eye of the needle.

"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice."  --Warren Buffett

People are Corporations, My Friend

Maybe RomneyCorp would be more human if he were less incorporated.

Tax Reform for the 1,400-odd Millionaires Who Didn't Pay Taxes

Pay your fair share.

The Duality of Mitt, Book II: Balancing the Budget

Old Mitt:  Was a moderate who balanced the state budget in Massachusetts by enacting a combination of spending cuts, closing corporate tax loopholes, and raising fees on marriage licenses, driving licenses, gun licenses, and taxes on gasoline at the state level.

New Mitt: Is another Borrow and Spend Republican who has pledged to not allow new taxes or increases in existing taxes at the federal level.

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates on a progressive tax system

Yeah, maybe, but on the other hand...

"We all know that going after oil companies is easy politics, but we also know that if this bill [eliminating tax breaks for the oil industry] were to pass it wouldn't lower gas prices one penny," Boehner said.


Yeah, but it would lower the government's deficit by a fair few--around 200,000,000,000 pennies, give or take.

Trickle-Down Economics

The basic idea behind trickle-down economics--that giving tax breaks to those who are already wealthy will cause them to spend more, and that that increase in spending will eventually trickle down to the middle class--ignores one basic fact about the rich...

The rich get rich, and stay rich, by hoarding money and not by spending it.