Tag: Humor

MasterCard, Inc. forces Americans into high credit card debt by making it convenient to open and use a charge account. Worse, MasterCard invites unflattering parallels between irresponsible citizens and the federal government.

Corporate foodstuffs put free-range organic commune farms out of business! It’s high time we made ConAgra Foods part of Sherrod Brown’s tax-hikin’ solution to America’s $1.62 trillion 2011 budget deficit.

Starting with the ten largest companies in the S&P 500 index and moving to the least-Progressive villains after that, how far have twenty applications of Sherrod’s Sure-Fire Budget Oil brought us?

CSX should get its trains out of the way for unmarketable, unaffordable passenger rail! In the meantime, we can subject CSX to Sherrod Brown’s fix for a $1.62 trillion 2011 budget deficit: higher taxes on American employers.

In the spirit of bipartisanship, I’ve been calculating the results of punishing evil corporations and their fat-cat CEOs. After nine weeks and 18 of the largest companies in the S&P 500 index, where has Sherrod’s Sure-Fire Budget Oil gotten us?

Amazon.com isn’t evil in quite the same way as, say, Exxon Mobil, JP Morgan Chase, or Halliburton, but that doesn’t get Amazon off the hook!

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.

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.

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.