February 3rd, 2010 by Dave

The worst health care system in any non-third-world country, in which “millions are dying” due to lack of healthcare is right here in the US, right?

Why is the good Premier Danny Williams traveling to the good old USA to fix his ticker, then?

This after “consultation with his own doctors.”

Mr. Williams should be glad he was able to put this surgery off until after his “Anything But Conservative” campaign of 2008.

Now, it’s “Anything But Canadian Healthcare.”

Keith Gosse
“I can confirm that Premier Williams did leave the province this morning and will be undergoing heart surgery later this week,” said Mr. Williams’ spokeswoman, Elizabeth Matthews.

February 3rd, 2010 by Dave

Are Democrats Buying Up Ads Here? A note about the ads on this site

It would seem that for a conservative viewpoint site, political ads centering on conservative audiences would be the logical outcome. Instead, a disproportionate ratio of progressive agenda ads appear here regularly. I think that’s pretty clever on one level and risky for the progressive groups on another. The ads have to cost the groups more to win out over conservative ads. The resulting idea seems to be to deny conservative bloggers income from relevant ads.

The risk is that savvy people would see through this and click the ads, costing the progressive-left groups money they would otherwise use to drum up more support for their damaging agendas.

In keeping with the Google TOS, I’m NOT saying for anyone to take any action on the ads seen here- I’m just pointing out the obvious that every time a liberal ad is çlicked on here, a liberal group loses money!

Just another example of wasteful Democrat spending on the liberal, progressive, socialist, tax-and-spend, collectivist agenda.

February 2nd, 2010 by Dave

From Reuters:

ADVISORY: Backdoor taxes story
The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute story.

I question whether this statement is actually false, since no administration makes any actual changes in the law. Until the congress acts, everything in the story stands as slated to occur. In my opinion, the retraction smacks more of cold-war Pravda than a news outlet. The story was fine until the Obama administration asked for it to be removed.

I’d like to know, “What is a substitute story?” anyway?

Such care for Obama’s reputation, even when the standing “facts” are overridden by mere request.

February 2nd, 2010 by Dave

Reuters Pulled Their Backdoor Tax Story, But Who Pulled Any Okeefe Stories? Anyone? Has anyone even printed corrections of “factual errors?” I read that Reuters changed their post from “a replacement story will be released next week” to “there will be no replacement” is that accurate?

Such care to get it right when it’s critical of the left- such sloppiness and recklessness when the criticism is on the right. Paul Feyerabned was correct when he stated that a theory tends to be self defining. This truth seems to apply to the left as their ideas are so often derived from political theory from Marx to Mao, while the conservatives are still based on the constitution as the foundation of our Republic.

The left biased media cannot help but be biased. Their theories produce a language that defines itself in terms that can only reach conclusions assumed by the leftist political theories of Marx and Lenin

The Pulled Reuters Backdoor Tax Story

February 2nd, 2010 by Dave

Quoted from my older brother – An excellent point about moving the higher tax rates to the middle class:

It gets FAR worse. I wish the general population understood Macro Economics better. Our current fiscal policy is driving the country to a major devaluation of the dollar and shocking inflation… very soon. As your income rises to maintain something close to your current spending power, you will soon reach an income that exceeds the tax increase index. At age 66, I’ve lived that scenario over and over. The “tax the rich” index is never moved up to match inflation. Add that to the fact that most of the tax increases will be passed to you via higher prices and you can see where Obama’s wonderful hope and change is taking us.

Reuters Pulls Backdoor Tax Story – Tax Hit on Middle Class

February 2nd, 2010 by Dave

Was the Backdoor Tax story pulled by Reuters simply too true? Ruters pulls Backdoor Tax Story

February 2nd, 2010 by Dave

A note about the ads on this site

It seems that some of the Google ads generated on this site are purchased at a high price by progressive liberal groups in hopes of placing ads on conservative sites to decrease the income of conservative bloggers. I have no proof, but the ads seem to target conservative viewpoints. The funny thing is that if people do view the ads, the site probably generates higher income…

Drudge reports that Reuters published this story on the so-called backdoor tax. As of this writing, it still appeared on Yahoo. I don’t know why Reuters pulled the story but the remnants are all over the web by now. Were the Tea Party protests of the summer more accurate than anyone knew? The noise is getting louder- higher taxes are hitting us all one way or another. The redistribution spread-the-wealth and spend-our-way-out ideology predetermines the results.

From the site:

Backdoor taxes to hit middle class

By Terri Cullen –MonFeb1, 4:09pmET

NEW YORK (Reuters.com) –The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families. In the 2010 budget tabled byPresident Barack Obamaon Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a tax hike by stealth. While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases. The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration’sEconomic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law loweredindividual tax rates, slashed taxes oncapital gainsand dividends, and steadily scaled back the estate tax to zero in 2010. If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tierpersonal income tax ratewill rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay more as well: the 25 percenttax bracketwill revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36 percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated. Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well, with the tax on dividends jumping to 39.6 percent from 15 percent and the capital-gains tax increasing to 20 percent from 15 percent.

The estate tax is eliminated this year, but it will return in 2011 — though there has been talk about reinstating thedeath taxsooner. Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably a “patch” that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoidingincome taxes, was never indexed for inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue. Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, the AMT could affect an estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 (or $45,000 for joint filers). Even if the patch is extended to last year’s levels, the tax will hit American families that can hardly be considered wealthy — the AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700 for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly. Middle-class families also will find fewer tax breaks available to them in 2010 if other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire. Among them: * Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes; * The $250 teachertax creditfor classroom supplies; * The tax deduction for up to $4,000 ofcollege tuitionand expenses; * Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 forproperty taxespaid; * The first $2,400 ofunemployment benefitsare taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax-free.

Clarification: This is an added comment, not part of the original: Trickle-down-taxation