Far East Cynic

Mythbusters

Once, just once-I’d like to tear down some really stupid myths about taxes.  The one big one I’d like to put to bed once and for all is the line you hear repeated over and over by people who should know better, that 48% of Americans do not pay taxes.

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Tell this to your tea party friends…..

I’m going to go on a series of posts disproving some of the wildest distortions that have been beamed into the minds of those who believe that they have some kind of a novel new notion, about government and taxation. The Tea Parties may have started as a grass roots

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Amen brother!

From John Cole-who is, like me, a reformed conservative: I don’t get it. The Republicans and some in the media are calling this the Obama recession and the Obama bear market and the Obama economy, but this says it will be the longest recession on record. Yet Obama has only

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Stimulate this!

I have been watching the conversation on the stimulus package with interest. As the debate has gone on a graphic depiction of the problem is  etched in my mind. It  is an analysis of the income disparity within the US: Yes the bottom of the graph is wrong, it should

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