Posts Tagged ‘ Congress ’

The Immorality of the Income Tax

Oct 26th, 2009 | By David Blane | Category: All Content, Ethics

“The Immorality of the Income Tax”
This is a follow up article to Kris’ “Is the Fair Tax really fair?”
Why do we bother to justify the income tax? Who proved it to us to be a necessity? Everyone pretty much hates April 15th, but not everyone is willing to invest in a way to balance a [...]



Federal Spending Continued: Healthcare

Oct 17th, 2009 | By michael2l | Category: All Content, Economics, News

Continuing on the theme of federal spending from last week, I’m going to jump straight to the big daddy of them all Healthcare.  As you’re probably aware President Obama has promised significant healthcare reform and is gunning to have legislation passed as soon as possible.  But is this the right time to rush to spend [...]



How to Understand a Trillion Dollars

Oct 9th, 2009 | By michael2l | Category: All Content, Economics, Politics

Try at all to be a responsible citizen and follow how the government is spending your money, and you will consistently run across articles where sums in the millions, billions, and even trillions are tossed around as if they were pocket change.  It can become very difficult to juggle these massive sums in your head [...]