Fear not: this punitive tax policy – like the millions of pages of bureaucracy Obamacare will spawn – won’t increase the cost of health insurance or care.
Month: June 2011
Soak the Rich, Week 8
For two months now we’ve been calculating the results of applying Sherrod’s Sure-Fire Budget Oil to evil corporations and their fat-cat CEOs.
Soak the Rich: Boeing
Sherrod Brown need only ask one question when raising someone’s taxes (are they rich?), so there’s a surplus of reasons for Boeing to pay their fair share.
Soak the Rich: Halliburton
If we’re going to try out Sherrod Brown’s solution to America’s $1.62 trillion 2011 budget deficit, we’ve got to soak the right rich people! I’ve tried these past seven weeks to target the worst corporations first, but I overlooked one of the evilest businesses of all…
Adventures in Government Accounting
The past several years I’ve been coughing up $70 for a fancy edition of TurboTax, but that’s hardly protection from the tax code’s – and my own – obtuseness.
In Support of Tom Friedman
Fair readers, mark your calendars: this is the day I prove what a warm, fuzzy moderate I am. This is the day I agree with Thomas Friedman.
Soak the Rich, Week 7
Because seven is such a lucky number, many of you are thinking the seventh week of Soak the Rich is the one where we fill in the 2011 U.S. budget deficit – a $1.62 trillion gap – by cranking up taxes on big corporations. Many of you are 5.215% correct.
Soak the Rich: Caterpillar
A company that builds things which build other things while consuming fossil fuels? Caterpillar, prepare to be soaked!
I-P-A-B spells “Death Panel”
Sarah Palin’s reportedly ignorant belief that Obamacare cuts cost by way of a “death panel” of bureaucrats passing down coverage decrees is nearly as notorious as Palin herself.
Soak the Rich: McDonald’s
Last week alone we made evil bank JP Morgan Chase and evil non-union retailer Wal-Mart pay their fair share, and there are plenty of other corporations Sherrod Brown would love to teach a lesson in the 488 that remain. Next up, the company responsible for rampant obesity and half of May’s new jobs!