HT Paco for documentation of a thesis I've held.
Lefties with guns are extremely dangerous. Gun laws should be revised: if you vote or register (D), you may not purchase a gun.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
More BATF Crap--From USFS
Some folks have to justify their payroll dollars any way they can.
...In late 2010 through 2011, under time constraints, and possibly due to not finding any illegal activity, Arnold and Webb resorted to various schemes to try to entice the hunters to break laws.
During one hunter’s trial in Haywood County, agents admitted to buying illegal bait for bears in Tennessee, and placing it in a hunter’s yard in Graham County. Hunters witnessed the officers killing at least four of the ten bears that were taken. These agents, against the advice of hunters, removed the bears’ gallbladders and called hunters from surrounding counties to try to get them to participate in the illegal selling of bear parts. The hunters refused to take part in this illegal activity. These are only two of the many tactics used in attempts to entrap hunters of Western North Carolina.
According to one attorney, Arnold admitted in court to violating 39 wildlife laws....
That's the same USFS which closed parks during the most flaccid "sequester" in history.
The fish rots from the head down, ya'know.
...In late 2010 through 2011, under time constraints, and possibly due to not finding any illegal activity, Arnold and Webb resorted to various schemes to try to entice the hunters to break laws.
During one hunter’s trial in Haywood County, agents admitted to buying illegal bait for bears in Tennessee, and placing it in a hunter’s yard in Graham County. Hunters witnessed the officers killing at least four of the ten bears that were taken. These agents, against the advice of hunters, removed the bears’ gallbladders and called hunters from surrounding counties to try to get them to participate in the illegal selling of bear parts. The hunters refused to take part in this illegal activity. These are only two of the many tactics used in attempts to entrap hunters of Western North Carolina.
According to one attorney, Arnold admitted in court to violating 39 wildlife laws....
That's the same USFS which closed parks during the most flaccid "sequester" in history.
The fish rots from the head down, ya'know.
The Very Careful Anthem President
Anthem is best known as Blue Cross/Blue Shield (or 'the Blues' for old folks.) The President of the Blues is rather careful when lobbed a bunch of softball questions about ObozoCare.
...Schreiber, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin, told me in his first interview on the subject that he anticipates Anthem’s Compcare product will attract 25 percent to 33 percent of the new marketplace enrollees in Wisconsin....
...The technological barriers are now being systematically eliminated. “We saw a large volume come in the last week of December and the first couple weeks of January. We’re working through that volume....
Tiptoeing past the graveyard....
The interviewer didn't bother to ask about premiums paid, nor about the demographics of the enrollees. Those would have been tough questions.
But the Blues Pres was remarkably.......aaahhhhh.....uninformative......about the problems.
Maybe he had a motive, eh?
...Health insurer Humana Inc. recently warned that enrollees in the exchanges will probably be sicker than anticipated. So few if any insurers will be in surplus, and many will be seeking help. In other words, the exchanges as a whole will be unbalanced and in need of a taxpayer bailout. The CBO hasn't estimated how much the risk corridors will cost if participants in the exchanges are especially unhealthy....
...Obamacare has always depended, both operationally and politically, on an alliance between the administration and insurance companies. But that alliance is vulnerable. The most controversial element of Obamacare to date — the coercive measures it includes to get people to buy insurance — is only there to protect the insurance companies' viability. A bailout could be just as unpopular a sop to the insurers.
The Blues Pres likes the Taxpayer Money. Speaking truth to power is fo'suckas.
...Schreiber, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Wisconsin, told me in his first interview on the subject that he anticipates Anthem’s Compcare product will attract 25 percent to 33 percent of the new marketplace enrollees in Wisconsin....
...The technological barriers are now being systematically eliminated. “We saw a large volume come in the last week of December and the first couple weeks of January. We’re working through that volume....
Tiptoeing past the graveyard....
The interviewer didn't bother to ask about premiums paid, nor about the demographics of the enrollees. Those would have been tough questions.
But the Blues Pres was remarkably.......aaahhhhh.....uninformative......about the problems.
Maybe he had a motive, eh?
...Health insurer Humana Inc. recently warned that enrollees in the exchanges will probably be sicker than anticipated. So few if any insurers will be in surplus, and many will be seeking help. In other words, the exchanges as a whole will be unbalanced and in need of a taxpayer bailout. The CBO hasn't estimated how much the risk corridors will cost if participants in the exchanges are especially unhealthy....
...Obamacare has always depended, both operationally and politically, on an alliance between the administration and insurance companies. But that alliance is vulnerable. The most controversial element of Obamacare to date — the coercive measures it includes to get people to buy insurance — is only there to protect the insurance companies' viability. A bailout could be just as unpopular a sop to the insurers.
The Blues Pres likes the Taxpayer Money. Speaking truth to power is fo'suckas.
Exceptions for Babies, Not Druggies: Christie
Governor Christie has verbal dissonance.
Here he is in 2011 on Meet the Depressed:
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Tiresome BS bromide. Killing a baby for its father's sin? Hmmmm. Incest? Same. "Life of the mother"? Maybe in 1912's medicinal practice, but not today's.
Anyhow, here Christie is proposing to decriminalize the use of choom:
..."We will make drug treatment available to as many of our non-violent offenders as we can and we will partner with our citizens to create a society that understands this simple truth: every life has value and no life is disposable,” Christie said during his inaugural speech this morning.
Any exceptions, Governor? What might they be?
Here he is in 2011 on Meet the Depressed:
I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Tiresome BS bromide. Killing a baby for its father's sin? Hmmmm. Incest? Same. "Life of the mother"? Maybe in 1912's medicinal practice, but not today's.
Anyhow, here Christie is proposing to decriminalize the use of choom:
..."We will make drug treatment available to as many of our non-violent offenders as we can and we will partner with our citizens to create a society that understands this simple truth: every life has value and no life is disposable,” Christie said during his inaugural speech this morning.
Any exceptions, Governor? What might they be?
The End of Gummint Liceity
Vox pens a nice summary here. (He doesn't mention it, but the ruling cited below is another part of the End of Liceity of which he speaks. The local echo is DA Chisholm's persecution of conservatives.)
Prelude:
At a tax symposium at Pepperdine Law School last week, former IRS chief counsel Donald Korb was asked, "On a scale of 1-10 ... how damaging is the current IRS scandal?"
His answer: 9.5. Other tax experts on the panel called it "awful," and said that it has done "tremendous damage."
I think that's right. And I think that the damage extends well beyond the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, I think that the government agency suffering the most damage isn't the IRS, but the National Security Agency. Because the NSA, even more than the IRS, depends on public trust. And now that the IRS has been revealed to be a political weapon, it's much harder for people to have faith in the NSA. --quoting Glenn Reynolds/USA Today
What are the results of this perfidy?
This is why the American people are arming at a rate that has never been seen before. They are not afraid of crime. They are afraid of their government. On some inarticulate level of consciousness, they are aware of this: an unreasonable, ineloquent master who knows only the use of intimidation and force is bound to resort to the latter when the former fails.
It's only a matter of time before some minor spark sets off a conflagration. And it could well happen in Milwaukee County, where the Chisholm/Landgraf Stasi is NOT all that popular.
Prelude:
At a tax symposium at Pepperdine Law School last week, former IRS chief counsel Donald Korb was asked, "On a scale of 1-10 ... how damaging is the current IRS scandal?"
His answer: 9.5. Other tax experts on the panel called it "awful," and said that it has done "tremendous damage."
I think that's right. And I think that the damage extends well beyond the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, I think that the government agency suffering the most damage isn't the IRS, but the National Security Agency. Because the NSA, even more than the IRS, depends on public trust. And now that the IRS has been revealed to be a political weapon, it's much harder for people to have faith in the NSA. --quoting Glenn Reynolds/USA Today
What are the results of this perfidy?
This is why the American people are arming at a rate that has never been seen before. They are not afraid of crime. They are afraid of their government. On some inarticulate level of consciousness, they are aware of this: an unreasonable, ineloquent master who knows only the use of intimidation and force is bound to resort to the latter when the former fails.
It's only a matter of time before some minor spark sets off a conflagration. And it could well happen in Milwaukee County, where the Chisholm/Landgraf Stasi is NOT all that popular.
The End of ObozoCare?
A story in which we find a Federal judge ignoring plain English because Statism. (Of course, Roberts could always find a 'tax,' I suppose.)
...No later than June, 2015, the Supreme Court will hold that subsidies cannot be paid to individuals enrolled in the federal health exchange covering 36 of 50 states.
Absent subsidies, 16 million people in the 36 affected states will face increased annual premium costs totaling $85 billion, based on Congressional estimates. The federal health exchange will have no option but to disclose the full, unsubsidized cost of policies, contributing to the so-called death spiral caused by too few young enrollees. Employer penalties can be assessed only after workers enroll in a subsidized exchange. No subsidy, no lawful penalty....
It's no wonder that the Left went into full screech when Walker (and 35 other Governors) decided to forfeit a State-run exchange. It was the death penalty for ObozoCare, as written.
...Obamacare authorizes subsidies for exchanges “established by a State.” Without a federal exchange subsidy, the legislation fails in practice because so few states elected to set up an exchange....
Well, except for this blackrobe-bozo:
...federal Judge Paul Friedman in Halbig v. Sebelius upheld the IRS regulations authorizing the federal exchange subsidy. Judge Friedman admits that “looking only at the language of the statute” the plaintiffs’ argument prohibiting subsidies to the federal exchange “may seem the more intuitive one.” He goes still further: “On its face, the plain language of [the statute], viewed in isolation, appears to support plaintiffs’ interpretation. The federal government, after all, is not a ‘State.’”
No shit, Captain Obvious! But that's not a bar to his ridiculous 'reasoning':
...According to Judge Friedman, the Obama administration makes “a credible argument” that the federal government can create an exchange “on behalf of that State,” therefore the federal exchange must be viewed as equivalent to a state exchange and therefore the federal exchange is eligible for a subsidy....
Cats and dogs have four legs. Therefore, cats are dogs! QED!!!
Heh.
...No later than June, 2015, the Supreme Court will hold that subsidies cannot be paid to individuals enrolled in the federal health exchange covering 36 of 50 states.
Absent subsidies, 16 million people in the 36 affected states will face increased annual premium costs totaling $85 billion, based on Congressional estimates. The federal health exchange will have no option but to disclose the full, unsubsidized cost of policies, contributing to the so-called death spiral caused by too few young enrollees. Employer penalties can be assessed only after workers enroll in a subsidized exchange. No subsidy, no lawful penalty....
It's no wonder that the Left went into full screech when Walker (and 35 other Governors) decided to forfeit a State-run exchange. It was the death penalty for ObozoCare, as written.
...Obamacare authorizes subsidies for exchanges “established by a State.” Without a federal exchange subsidy, the legislation fails in practice because so few states elected to set up an exchange....
Well, except for this blackrobe-bozo:
...federal Judge Paul Friedman in Halbig v. Sebelius upheld the IRS regulations authorizing the federal exchange subsidy. Judge Friedman admits that “looking only at the language of the statute” the plaintiffs’ argument prohibiting subsidies to the federal exchange “may seem the more intuitive one.” He goes still further: “On its face, the plain language of [the statute], viewed in isolation, appears to support plaintiffs’ interpretation. The federal government, after all, is not a ‘State.’”
No shit, Captain Obvious! But that's not a bar to his ridiculous 'reasoning':
...According to Judge Friedman, the Obama administration makes “a credible argument” that the federal government can create an exchange “on behalf of that State,” therefore the federal exchange must be viewed as equivalent to a state exchange and therefore the federal exchange is eligible for a subsidy....
Cats and dogs have four legs. Therefore, cats are dogs! QED!!!
Heh.
Yes, You Can "Print" a Gun
The technique here is not the same as plastic-printing.
A 3D printing services company has built a fully functioning, semi-automatic pistol and shown that it works just as a traditionally manufactured gun.
Built by Solid Concepts,
the pistol is a replica of the storied .45-caliber, M1911
semi-automatic that served as the U.S. military’s standard-issue sidearm
for more than 70 years. Solid Concept demonstrated the gun by firing 50
rounds with it.
--quoted at Just One Minute
Sunday, January 19, 2014
The (R) Establishment Bozos
Nice summary of the Big Spender Pubbies here from Carney. All of them threw large money at Coburn's opponent, a squish named Humphreys.
...Nickles contributed to Humphreys in the primary, as did Oklahoma's junior senator, Jim Inhofe. Tom Cole was a congressional candidate that year, but he was also the political boss of the Oklahoma GOP, and his campaign contributed to Humphrey in the primary. So did GOP Rep. Wes Watkins of Oklahoma, who had served with Coburn in the House. Coburn’s other Oklahoma colleague in the House, J.C. Watts, endorsed Humphreys.
Meanwhile, the entire Senate leadership also backed Humphreys against Coburn. Majority Leader Bill Frist, Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and Republican Policy Committee Chair Jon Kyl all poured money into Humphreys’ campaign.
Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee also were not thrilled about Coburn coming into the upper chamber and crimping their style. Appropriators Kay Bailey Hutchison, Judd Gregg, Richard Shelby and Ted Stevens all gave PAC money to Humphreys. Republicans John Sununu, Gordon Smith and Saxby Chambliss also spent to keep Coburn out....
Coburn bows out due to illness--but the real cancers are above, in red.
...Nickles contributed to Humphreys in the primary, as did Oklahoma's junior senator, Jim Inhofe. Tom Cole was a congressional candidate that year, but he was also the political boss of the Oklahoma GOP, and his campaign contributed to Humphrey in the primary. So did GOP Rep. Wes Watkins of Oklahoma, who had served with Coburn in the House. Coburn’s other Oklahoma colleague in the House, J.C. Watts, endorsed Humphreys.
Meanwhile, the entire Senate leadership also backed Humphreys against Coburn. Majority Leader Bill Frist, Majority Whip Mitch McConnell and Republican Policy Committee Chair Jon Kyl all poured money into Humphreys’ campaign.
Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee also were not thrilled about Coburn coming into the upper chamber and crimping their style. Appropriators Kay Bailey Hutchison, Judd Gregg, Richard Shelby and Ted Stevens all gave PAC money to Humphreys. Republicans John Sununu, Gordon Smith and Saxby Chambliss also spent to keep Coburn out....
Coburn bows out due to illness--but the real cancers are above, in red.
The More We Learn, the Stupider Obozo Looks
This is not exactly the legacy a smart and competent executive wants to leave. Unless this was The Plan from the get-go, of course.
A document given to the contractor who replaced CGI in December shows how truly desperate is the position of the government.
So what does the document say?
“There is limited time to build this functionality and failure to deliver…by mid-March 2014 will result in financial harm to the government,....
“If this functionality is not complete by mid-March 2014, the government could make erroneous payments to providers and insurers,” it continues. “Additionally, without a Financial Management platform that accounts for enrollments and associated program costs that integrates with the existing CMS Accounting platform, the entire healthcare reform program is jeopardized.”
Oh. Well. That's just wonderful.
Many of those who have signed up for ObamaCare are eligible for federal subsidies, which the government pays directly to the insurers. The document says that failure to complete the project by mid-March could result in “inaccurate issuance of payments to health plans which could seriously put them at financial risk; potentially leading to their default and disrupting continued services and coverage to consumers.” --quoting The Hill
(The semi-literacy of the document's author confirms that it's a FedGov scribble.)
There's even more!!
...the back-end problems extend beyond federal subsidy payments. According to the document, the system is vulnerable to “inaccurate forecasting” of the risk mitigation programs in place to pay insurers who enroll a higher-than-expected number of sick patients with expensive bills, “potentially putting the entire health insurance industry at risk.”
There are a lot of insightful folks (Limbaugh among them) who are convinced that ObozoCare was designed to make private insurers fail. Given what we see above, there's still no reason to doubt that theory.
The alternative is that Obozo and his HHS Secretary are two of the dumbest examples of homo sapiens ever to have had office in the US.
Which do you prefer?
A document given to the contractor who replaced CGI in December shows how truly desperate is the position of the government.
So what does the document say?
“There is limited time to build this functionality and failure to deliver…by mid-March 2014 will result in financial harm to the government,....
“If this functionality is not complete by mid-March 2014, the government could make erroneous payments to providers and insurers,” it continues. “Additionally, without a Financial Management platform that accounts for enrollments and associated program costs that integrates with the existing CMS Accounting platform, the entire healthcare reform program is jeopardized.”
Oh. Well. That's just wonderful.
Many of those who have signed up for ObamaCare are eligible for federal subsidies, which the government pays directly to the insurers. The document says that failure to complete the project by mid-March could result in “inaccurate issuance of payments to health plans which could seriously put them at financial risk; potentially leading to their default and disrupting continued services and coverage to consumers.” --quoting The Hill
(The semi-literacy of the document's author confirms that it's a FedGov scribble.)
There's even more!!
...the back-end problems extend beyond federal subsidy payments. According to the document, the system is vulnerable to “inaccurate forecasting” of the risk mitigation programs in place to pay insurers who enroll a higher-than-expected number of sick patients with expensive bills, “potentially putting the entire health insurance industry at risk.”
There are a lot of insightful folks (Limbaugh among them) who are convinced that ObozoCare was designed to make private insurers fail. Given what we see above, there's still no reason to doubt that theory.
The alternative is that Obozo and his HHS Secretary are two of the dumbest examples of homo sapiens ever to have had office in the US.
Which do you prefer?
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Warning on GDP
Yah, well. Remember last quarter's GDP announcement?
It's going to be revised. Down. By up to a full point.
Inventory selloff, folks. See today's Chicago PMI release, and expect more of the same.
It's going to be revised. Down. By up to a full point.
Inventory selloff, folks. See today's Chicago PMI release, and expect more of the same.
Stuff You Don't Know About Scott Walker
Recently had a conversation with a rather pleasant person who told me, in all seriousness, that:
---Scott Walker had sold Devil's Lake State Park to the Koch Brothers, and that
---Scott Walker will raise the Wisconsin sales tax to 13%. Single-handedly.
I expressed some surprise that the sale of Devil's Lake was not mentioned by any newspapers. That didn't deter my interlocutor one bit.
Must be a double secret thing, eh?
---Scott Walker had sold Devil's Lake State Park to the Koch Brothers, and that
---Scott Walker will raise the Wisconsin sales tax to 13%. Single-handedly.
I expressed some surprise that the sale of Devil's Lake was not mentioned by any newspapers. That didn't deter my interlocutor one bit.
Must be a double secret thing, eh?
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
ObozoChristie
If you think that Christie is responsible for the acts of his underlings (henchcreeps), fine.
That logic works for me. I don't defend Christie.
But it's also clear that he and his cabal learned a lot from Obozo.
....the defenders of the Obama administration will claim that there was no presidential involvement, just as they have claimed that the IRS scandal involved low level bureaucrats in Cincinnati, and as they denied responsibility for closing the WW II Memorial during the 17% "shutdown." But the problem is that with bridgegate they are establishing the principle that the atmosphere created at the top is what really matters, so Governor Christie is on the hook for the actions of his staff....
Seems like USDA attacked the children during the "sequester." And yah, that was an Obozo call.
That logic works for me. I don't defend Christie.
But it's also clear that he and his cabal learned a lot from Obozo.
....the defenders of the Obama administration will claim that there was no presidential involvement, just as they have claimed that the IRS scandal involved low level bureaucrats in Cincinnati, and as they denied responsibility for closing the WW II Memorial during the 17% "shutdown." But the problem is that with bridgegate they are establishing the principle that the atmosphere created at the top is what really matters, so Governor Christie is on the hook for the actions of his staff....
Seems like USDA attacked the children during the "sequester." And yah, that was an Obozo call.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Why Vote (R), Indeed!
Jeff Lord was in the Reagan Administration. He asks a good question, preceded by this:
...three different people at three different times had their own description of the problems so many see with moderate Republicans. Buckley called them “an identifiable team of Fabian operators is bent on controlling both our major political parties (under the sanction of such fatuous and unreasoned slogans as “national unity,” “middle-of-the-road,” “progressivism,” and “bipartisanship”). Thatcher’s disdainful terms for British moderate Conservatives was the “wets” or “consensus politicians,” while Reagan scorned the same people as “fraternal order” Republicans....
("Fraternal Order" of high-school class presidents.....heh.)
To the point: Christie-type "moderates" are a waste of oxygen (and votes.)
Screw 'em.
And yes, I know that the high-school class president (R) flunky will show up and have the usual comment.
...three different people at three different times had their own description of the problems so many see with moderate Republicans. Buckley called them “an identifiable team of Fabian operators is bent on controlling both our major political parties (under the sanction of such fatuous and unreasoned slogans as “national unity,” “middle-of-the-road,” “progressivism,” and “bipartisanship”). Thatcher’s disdainful terms for British moderate Conservatives was the “wets” or “consensus politicians,” while Reagan scorned the same people as “fraternal order” Republicans....
("Fraternal Order" of high-school class presidents.....heh.)
To the point: Christie-type "moderates" are a waste of oxygen (and votes.)
Screw 'em.
And yes, I know that the high-school class president (R) flunky will show up and have the usual comment.
Take Your Pick, Mr. SCOAMF
Li'l Obozo was all disturbed with the generals during Afghanistan.
Youth, inexperience, epistemic closure, ideology, indifference, unconscious prejudice, misplaced sense of superiority, lack of training, lack of ability, lack of self awareness: pick one, Mr. President. I can make a case for each.
There are probably a few more that Lane didn't bother to iterate.
Do they think because I’m young that I don’t see what they’re doing?”Moe Lane tries to help:
Youth, inexperience, epistemic closure, ideology, indifference, unconscious prejudice, misplaced sense of superiority, lack of training, lack of ability, lack of self awareness: pick one, Mr. President. I can make a case for each.
There are probably a few more that Lane didn't bother to iterate.
Ten Million "Disappeared" Workers
Nice job, Obozo!!
...The number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House. In January 2009, the number of “officially unemployed” workers plus the number of Americans “not in the labor force” was sitting at a grand total of 92.6 million. Today, that number has risen to 102.2 million....Economic Collapse quoted at MoonBattery
$10 million is about what the US taxpayer has paid for Obozo vacations in the same time period.
...The number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House. In January 2009, the number of “officially unemployed” workers plus the number of Americans “not in the labor force” was sitting at a grand total of 92.6 million. Today, that number has risen to 102.2 million....Economic Collapse quoted at MoonBattery
$10 million is about what the US taxpayer has paid for Obozo vacations in the same time period.
Truer Words Were Never Spoken
Part of a short essay on education in America....
....Mann extolled the Prussian model in his seventh annual report. This met with some resistance, as critics accused him of wanting to establish a “Prussian-style tyranny” in the schools, arguing that the Prussian model was based on a presumption that the government was wiser than the citizenry, while in America the presumption was the reverse. There was considerable basis for this complaint. Prussian theorists regarded public education, and higher education as well, as an institution of “police” and a way of making students “useful as future tools,” — but Mann’s idea ultimately caught on for the most part....
There is no small irony in the fact that Catholic (and Lutheran) schools were established specifically to keep those children out of the Prussian model.
That's something that Abp Listecki's little "education" dictator doesn't bother with.
The rest of the essay--which includes an excellent description of Frau Diktator's friends and thought-pattern--is worth the read, particularly the withering criticism from Allan Bloom, an atheist who gets it.
HT: Paco
....Mann extolled the Prussian model in his seventh annual report. This met with some resistance, as critics accused him of wanting to establish a “Prussian-style tyranny” in the schools, arguing that the Prussian model was based on a presumption that the government was wiser than the citizenry, while in America the presumption was the reverse. There was considerable basis for this complaint. Prussian theorists regarded public education, and higher education as well, as an institution of “police” and a way of making students “useful as future tools,” — but Mann’s idea ultimately caught on for the most part....
There is no small irony in the fact that Catholic (and Lutheran) schools were established specifically to keep those children out of the Prussian model.
That's something that Abp Listecki's little "education" dictator doesn't bother with.
The rest of the essay--which includes an excellent description of Frau Diktator's friends and thought-pattern--is worth the read, particularly the withering criticism from Allan Bloom, an atheist who gets it.
HT: Paco
Wisconsin Tax Reform? It's the SPENDING
You won't hear much about this from Madistan, of course.
...In order to keep the sales tax rate low, Berry said the state would need to follow Washington State in levying taxes on things like food and real estate sales, both currently tax free in Wisconsin. He said the state would also need to decide to reduce spending.
"If you look at the states that don't have an income tax, they all spend less per capita than we do," Berry said.
According to Berry, the state property and income taxes are around 25 percent higher than the national average, while the sales tax is 15 percent lower. He said the state could work to balance the two.
"There's no question that there's a need for tax reform," Berry said. "We haven't had a comprehensive discussion in decades."...
Notice Berry's emphasis on SPENDING? That'll be in the memory-hole tomorrow.
A separate news report indicates that someone suggests dropping the income tax altogether and replacing it with the sales tax. That's an interesting possibility--jt's akin to the 'fair tax' which we favor. But unless spending controls--tight ones--are in place and virtually immobile, taxes will continue to escalate.
...In order to keep the sales tax rate low, Berry said the state would need to follow Washington State in levying taxes on things like food and real estate sales, both currently tax free in Wisconsin. He said the state would also need to decide to reduce spending.
"If you look at the states that don't have an income tax, they all spend less per capita than we do," Berry said.
According to Berry, the state property and income taxes are around 25 percent higher than the national average, while the sales tax is 15 percent lower. He said the state could work to balance the two.
"There's no question that there's a need for tax reform," Berry said. "We haven't had a comprehensive discussion in decades."...
Notice Berry's emphasis on SPENDING? That'll be in the memory-hole tomorrow.
A separate news report indicates that someone suggests dropping the income tax altogether and replacing it with the sales tax. That's an interesting possibility--jt's akin to the 'fair tax' which we favor. But unless spending controls--tight ones--are in place and virtually immobile, taxes will continue to escalate.
The Lying Liar Lied About Benghazi
The Lying Liar Obozo lied about Benghazi. Yah, you're shocked.
There was NEVER a doubt that it was a terrorist attack, no matter the fantasy concocted by Lying Liar and his BumbleQueen.
But Lying Liar had a campaign event the very next day and he needed his beauty rest.
So that ended that.
There was NEVER a doubt that it was a terrorist attack, no matter the fantasy concocted by Lying Liar and his BumbleQueen.
But Lying Liar had a campaign event the very next day and he needed his beauty rest.
So that ended that.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Missed By THAAAT Much!
Agent Smart....
...In Wisconsin, 40,752 people signed up for health insurance on the federal exchange. The original expectation was that 277,000 people would sign up in Wisconsin....
Only off by 86% so far!
HT: Sykes
...In Wisconsin, 40,752 people signed up for health insurance on the federal exchange. The original expectation was that 277,000 people would sign up in Wisconsin....
Only off by 86% so far!
HT: Sykes
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