Democrats are homing in on Mitt Romney’s offshore holdings and presumed penchant for avoiding US taxes: [Read more…]
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Democrats are homing in on Mitt Romney’s offshore holdings and presumed penchant for avoiding US taxes: [Read more…]
Mitt Romney has an IRA reportedly worth upwards of $100 million. Which is amazing, especially considering the contribution limit is $6000 per year and was lower in the past. The Romney campaign isn’t saying how he pulled it off, but here’s some educated guesswork: [Read more…]
Woman thanks President Obama for healthcare with tears in her eyes. Click for her story at HuffPo.
As expected the June jobs report was weak, the nation added only 80,000 new jobs last month. A far cry from the number needed to match the always growing US workforce. Unemployment remained at 8.2%, so, GOP trolls in congress, grats! [Read more…]
The Romney campaign flailed around a bit over the last few days trying desperately to come up with a way to criticize Obama for “raising taxes” on the middle class for healthcare, while claiming the blue-print plan Romney used in Massachusetts didn’t count as a tax. [Read more…]
Cue the religious nutters and unconscionable conservatives whining that the mean old commie liberal secular — bin Laden killing — progressives haven’t cleaned up their charred debris fast enough. Which is somehow used as rationale for enacting more of the religious nutter policies that burned the economy to the ground: [Read more…]
Via TPM, Republicans are now running around frantically saying the ACA is The Biggest Tax in History. Naturally, it’s a whopper and it’s a doozy. But, it’s nowhere near the biggest whopper ever told this year by the usual liars for Jesus, or even the biggest lie about healthcare.
There’s Mitt Romney, praising then what he detests now as a tax. There is one big difference between the Romneycare tax and the ACA/Obamacare tax: under both plans people who can easily afford health insurance but choose to put the risk on the rest of us pay a small fine. That’s what the tax part really is. But right now the ACA tax is purely voluntary, there’s no penalty for not paying it. Romney’s tax was enforced the Massachusetts state revenue office, similar to the IRS.
Angry over Attorney General Holder’s efforts to preserve voting rights, and furious after the unexpected blow delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, the evil empire hit back late yesterday. Fortunately, unlike the Star Wars namesake, it was a pitiful counter-strike. One based on bullshit and distortions whipped up by conservatives with a grudge, and an ill-conceived Bush era program shut down by the Obama WH is all they have to work with: [Read more…]
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While we wait for the SCOTUS decision, here’s some lighter political news. Americans trust Obama more than Romney to deal with an alien invasion: [Read more…]
This is a very interesting article, with a fun twist for poll watchers and political junkies — but I’m not going to spoil it for you! Here’s the evocative part about atheists: [Read more…]