Send Your Tax Dollars to Red China!

Spend them at Wal-Mart, the focus of evil in the modern world. Actually, as I think Bill Maher put it, the only way to help the American economy with your tax rebate check would be to spend it on hookers, meth, or Indian Casinos.

Dubya's Shadow

From the Great and Powerful Kos, a rumination on the legacies of this Administration that will last long beyond January 20, 2009. I agree with much of it, sadly, particularly the part about allowing Dubya's tax giveaway to the wealthiest 1% to expire being portrayed as "the largest tax hike in the history of the Universe." Also, in addition to a pledge to reverse all of Bush's executive orders, I would also like to hear which candidates, if any, will promise to eliminate forever the use of "signing statements."

Also: In light of the foregoing, is John McCain really in as good a shape for November as the sinister liberal MSM would have us believe?

Huckabee & Giuliani on Taxes

"My tax plan will eliminate the IRS!!"

"Oh yeah? Well, MY tax plan will be TWICE the size of Reagan's!"

"Oh, yeah? Well, under MY plan, everyone gets a pony! Tax free!"

"9-11! 9-11!"

Thompson Introduces Crackpot Tax Plan...

...gripes at "damn kids" for "getting on my lawn!"

The Parade of CYA Memoirs Continues...

...first Alan Greenspan (who abandoned his own fiscal principals to endorse Bush's multi-millionaires tax relief package) goes all MoveOn.org on Dubya, now Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, one of the chief architects of the Iraq fiasco, blasts Bush as "incompetent." Nice of all these guys to realize what a train-wreck of an Administration they were working for....AFTER it's too late for them to do anything about it. More profiles in courage.

Republicans Get Clue! Nation Gasps!

According to the WSJ (and who would know Republicans better?), six in ten GOPhers think "Free" Trade has been bad for the country and 32% favor tax hikes on the mega-wealthy to reduce the deficit. Apparently, even the Republicans aren't Republicans anymore.

Kay Bailey Hutchison: Class Warrior

From the Carpetbagger Report:

Last night featured all of the predictable rhetoric and arguments, but my nominee for the dumbest comment of the debate comes by way of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas): "[W]e are turning our back on the middle-class and poor people in this country who depend on the minimum wage and death-tax relief."

Right. That would be all the desperately poor millionaire heiresses yearning to breath free.
Just one more reason to love Barbara Ann.

Paris Hilton Relief Act Dies in Senate

Republicans vow to continue fight to relieve the crushing tax burden on dozens of vacuous, amoral, dimwitted heiresses.

Bob Bullock Rides Again

From Off the Kuff, an excellent review of the Bullock Amendment, which requires that 2/3rds of all the revenue from any state income tax go to property tax relief and 1/3rd to the schools, with any rate increases subject to voter approval.

Big Law Firms Do NOT Speak for All Lawyers

I don't particularly want to pay more in taxes either, but it's ludicrous that law firms worth literally billions now pay practically nothing to help fund education. Unlike normal businesses, all lawyers pay an occupational tax (also known as the "Thanks for being a lawyer" tax) but if and ONLY if they are a professional corporation, do they have to pay the franchise tax as well. And this is why the biggest law firms are still partnerships. These rich crybabies who have shirked their fair share for years due to a loophole created by lawyer-legislators are giving the rest of us a bad name. And don't believe their cover story about the pain of "passing the tax burden onto our poor benighted clients," either. Big law firms represent big clients. These guys don't make millions and millions of dollars per year by representing misdemeanor criminal defendants or single mothers seeking child support, believe me.