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Wow!  Unless I’m very confused, beneath all the O-babble here, Obama is conceding that low taxes benefit the economy:
Democrat Barack Obama says he would delay rescinding President Bush’s tax cuts on wealthy Americans if he becomes the next president and the economy is in a recession, suggesting such an increase would further hurt the economy.
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Taxes Fine for You Lowly Peasants, Democrats Avoid Tax Pain At The Pump, Dem Mayor Lies About Republicans

Earlier this year John McCain called for a gas tax holiday during the Summer in order to ease the burden of the cost of gasoline. Hillary Clinton agreed with the idea but Barack Obama and many other Democrats [...]

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Democrats have one attitude towards taxes:  raise ‘em.  The higher they are, they think, the more money that government will have to redistribute to those the Democrats deem worth. They never seem to grasp that low, stable taxes are infinitely more beneficial to the economy, in both boom times and bust.
Obama, of course, is foremost [...]

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New York Times Op-Ed contributor Richard Conniff wrote a piece where he calls for us to abolish all taxes; his method for accomplishing this is to change the word “taxes” to “dues”. Conniff writes that this would take a page from the conservative play book where words are changed to reframe the debate. He cites [...]

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‘Taxman’ was when I first realised that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes. It was and still is typical. - George Harrison
The Beatles (a famous musical group for those of you too young) had a song about the Taxman. When George Harrison wrote that [...]

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The legislature of Maryland wrapped up the Special Session called by Governor O’Malley and the result is going to be very painful to Maryland residents. For the past three weeks the legislature has been mulling over how to screw the citizens of this state out of their hard earned money and they finally succeeded at [...]

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Each of the front-running Democratic candidates has promised to raise taxes, to remedy the “disastrous” tax cuts that President Bush put into place. What I’ve somehow missed from them, though, is any explanation about why the tax cuts are so disastrous. I’m not saying the Dems don’t have an explanation. I’m just [...]

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Warren Buffett, the billionaire who has not yet found a way to enjoy his wealth, complains that he does not pay enough income taxes and states that he pays less than his employees who make far less money. Buffett indicated that he does not have accountants, (I find that hard to believe), and that he [...]

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Charlie Rangel has introduced a new tax scheme to extort more money from people making what he considers to be rich people money. The tax increase would offset a reduction in the taxes that corporations pay and it would increase the earned income tax credit. Rangel’s “fair” plan would charge a surtax of 4% on [...]

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The state of Maryland has a flat tax rate in that everyone pays the same tax rate on any income over $3000. The flat tax rate for the state has been in effect for some time with the only fluctuation being in local taxes, a measure from long ago that sucks more money from the [...]

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