Taxes
More States Take Cutting Gasoline Tax Idea.
Forty-six percent (46%) of America’s Likely Voters favor a federal gas tax holiday this summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% are opposed and 12% are not sure. Most voters who earn more than $75,000 a year oppose the gas tax holiday. Most who make less than $60,000 a year favor that policy change. Among those make less than $20,000 a year, 62% favor the gas tax holiday while only 11% are opposed
OPEC may decide to increase production taking pressure off of prices and feightening speculators who account for 20-40% of crude oil costs. Analyst say there is an even change crude will fall below $100 a barrel if OpPEC increases production.
Less Affluent Favor Gas Tax Holiday.
According to a rasmussen Poll released Thursday forty-six percent (46%) of America’s Likely Voters favor a federal gas tax holiday this summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% are opposed and 12% are not sure. Most voters who earn more than $75,000 a year oppose the gas tax holiday. Most who make less than $60,000 a year favor that policy change. Among those make less than $20,000 a year, 62% favor the gas tax holiday while only 11% are opposed.
McCain proposed suspending the 18 cents a gallon federal tax and Hillary supports it. Obama opposes it.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Put on your thinking caps. You will definitely find today’s Ten Post Round-Up educational:
1: Why does it seem that people who have a problem with women having abortions seem to have no problem with war?….
2: Gas is almost up to $4.00…
3: 4,327 Florida 10th graders can’t read…
4: Do we really want four more years of GWBs policies?…
John McCain didn’t vote for George Bush in 2000: Has adopted his platform for 2008–Crooks and Liars
5: The woman who helped overturn the law that banned interracial marriage, has passed away (Dizzy and her husband are thankful for that)…
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I’ll beg your pardon, right off the bat, as today’s Ten Post Round-Up will probably get a bit personal:
1: “Live Veterans cost money that might better go to the war profiteers. Dead ones cost nothing”….
2: …”if 81% believe we are in a recession, then rest assured 81% will ACT like we are in a recession”…
3: Young voters not pickin’ up what the GOP is puttin’ down?…
4: We might have brought “democracy” to Iraq, but the women of Iraq are still waiting…
5: A little sumthin’-sumthin’ to add to my to-do list in 18 days…
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I don’t know if the electorate are really bitter or not, but today’s Ten Post Round-Up will probably leave a grimy taste in your mouth:
1: So it seems that the only people that benefit from your college education is the college and the banks that issue student loans…
America’s Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor’s Degree–The Chronicle of Higher Education
2: Glass houses come to mind…
You Can’t Complain About Sexism If You Participate In It–The Democratic Daily
3: Single mom flips the script and sues RIAA…
Accused music pirate turns the tables on the RIAA–Geeks Are Sexy
4: Dizzy is a sucker for true crime murder mysteries…
Smiley Face Killers: All About The Growing Mystery Gang–The Huffington Post
5: Wright-Obama controversy: An interesting perspective on why religion and politics should stay separate…
Separation of Church & State Really of Religion & Politics.–Hypocrisy.com
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Ah, Monday! It’s like the weekend never happened. Rest assured, today’s Ten Post Round-Up will shake those weekend cobwebs from your brow:
1: A few things the MSM neglected to report on…
Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report–The Huffington Post
2: As the cost of food soars, so do the lines at local food banks…
3: Just for kicks: Join the Million Blog List…
Welcome to Million Blog List - A blogosphere experiment–Million Blog List
4: Just who will benefit most from those “rebate checks”?…
$100+ BILLION giveaway to the oil, credit card and retail industries–My Three Cents
5: Americans are coming up with creative ways to save a few bucks…
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Yes, today’s Ten Post Round-Up is as cold as the Colorado mountains:
1: thepoetryman has something to say about the FLDS Church…
2: More “supporting the troops” by the Bush Administration…
3: A case where “what happens in Vegas…” won’t be staying in Vegas…
4: You thought your health care plan was expensive before, wait until you get sick with a serious illness…
5: Not able to find enough diplomats to volunteer for duty in Iraq, the State Dept. will now start drafting them to go…
State Department warns diplomats of compulsory Iraq duty–Minstrel Boy
6: Another school kid calls out the big dogs on their errors…
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA’s asteroid figures: paper–PHYSORG.com
7: Japan has joined in the war against fat people….
8: McCain wants to suspend the gas tax for the summer…
9: There’s a problem with your cereal and it’s ten years old…
Marler Clark Sees Pattern in Malt-O-Meal Salmonella Outbreaks–Signs of the Times
10: This is so typical of our politicians, these days, it comes as no surprise that they would start off with a bill to help homeowners and end up giving the bulk of the “help” to big business, instead…
277 días hasta el final de un error…
Peace.
McCain Says End Gas Tax; Raise Child Deduction, And End Spending Increases.
John McCain wants the federal government to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. He also renewed his call for the United States to stop adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and thus lessen to some extent the worldwide demand for oil. Federal taxes are per gallon while many states put a sales tax on gasoline and diesel so the higher the price and higher the tax.
McCain also called for the Department of Education to act to strengthen the student loans program that is under stress as many lenders have been cutting back or eliminating loans. He also wants to raise the income tax exemption from $3,500 to $7,000 per child, and suspend for one year all increased spending by federal departments.
McCain called for these reforms on the event of the April 15th income tax filing deadline.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Try dancing around today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: If sisters are doing it for themselves, how come movies and television are not representing them properly?…
2: Things not so comfy cozy on the housing front between GWB and the GOP?…
Bush throws GOP Senators under the bus on the bi-partisan housing bill–AMERICAblog
3: Those rebate checks might not arrive in time to do the economy any good, but at least the average Jane and Joe can maybe pay off one more bill before finally hitting the skids…
It’s official now: George W. Bush is today’s Herbert Hoover–Brilliant at Breakfast
4: Milestones and reminders on the road to victory in Iraq: Are we there yet?…
5: They’re gonna git cha, so ya better pay up!…
6: They have all this money, yet, they are still relying on the US for financial help? Excuse me while I beat up my desk with my forehead…
7: Just one more thing for the cash-strapped working poor to worry about: Fraudulent rental agreements that leave them out on the streets (after handing their first and last plus security to a complete stranger who disappears into the night)…
8: In a “real” free-market system, this makes perfect sense. Everyone is going broke, you gotta be able to make money where you can and if the whole world suddenly is starving, the last thing a hungry fisherman is going to be concerned with is the purple-bellied flying carp and whether or not it’s extinct…
9: I miss the old “Dr.” Phil: “You shouldn’t shush a nation when a president decides he’s gonna go to war. If we ever need the First Amendment, we need it then”….
Phil Donohue Stands Up For Free Speech In A Time Of War–News Hounds
10: I’ve said it before, being a friend of GWB and company means never having to say you’re sorry…
Oh, I definitely need more coffee!
Thousands of Karina “Victims” Collected As Much As $150,000 Undeserved
As many as 5,000 Katrina victims may have received tens of thousands of dollar more than they were entitled to due to what appears to be incompetence of a private contractor charged with dispensing taxpayer monies to them. The average amount of overpayment is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000. In the rush to pay residents the $11 billion program almost inevitably ran afoul. Now the government wants those over-payments back amid cries, moaning and more than a little political posturing.
Some of the recipients have spent the funds on extravagance and collecting the misappropriated taxpayer money will be fraught with charges of mistreatment and unfairness. This is a boondoggle of epic proportions and it is likely that the U. S. taxpayer will be the ultimate victims once more as “victims” enjoy exotic vacations and Cadillacs paid for by the real victims.
What’s Wrong With Europeams Paying Us for Refueling Tankers
The flap over (Airbus) EADS and U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corp. winning the lucrative aerial refueling contract is silly. When is the last time, or any time, Europeans have paid for U. S. military cost as it is in this deal. Plus, Boeing stepped in it. After all a former Air Force official and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing’s chief executive and several top Air Force officials. Plus, we get more tankers for less money; build 3-4 plants and hire 5,000 Americans.
Reasons for Rice’s Shift Has Parallels Today
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Condoleezza Rice’s switch from Democrat to Republican was provoked by two events says Ron Kessler of NEWSMAX. (1.) The endless refrain at 1984 Democratic National Convention (that nominated Walter Mondale) to “women, minorities, and the poor, which basically means helpless people and the poor.” Rice, who grew up during segregation, was turned off deciding she would “rather be ignored than patronized.” (2.) Jimmy Carter’s professed shock at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, demonstrating naivete and spotlighting his feeble approach to national security. The spectacle sickened her.Kessler suggest substituting the name Obama for Carter or Mondale. He raises the specters lurking around Obama including:
Obama Phenomena
It seems as if Obama is being carried by a tidal wave of adoration and gaining a momentum that Hillary might not be able to stop. There are reports of growing crowds wherever he goes as he mesmerizes all demographic groups: old, young, black, white, rural, suburb. I have even read of women fainting during his speeches as if he is the new Elvis or Beatle or Sinatra (pick your idol based on your generation). And yet….
Anyone who follows Obama and listens to him will agree that as wonderful as his speeches are they still don’t contain any substance. To learn more about him, I checked his website; http://www.barrackobama.com/. To my surprise
TAX IMMIGRANTS
Americans are fleeing Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois at a wholesale rate. Allied Van Lines says for each family moving into Michigan two moved out. One reason is people are moving from high tax to lower tax states. The adage that high taxes don’t redistribute income but people is truer than ever before.
California with the highest income tax rate in America lost people in 2007 despite a flood of illegal immigrants. Next door Nevada – without an income tax – is gaining many of them. Still don’t believe taxes matter? Well North Dakota is flushing people at a record rate and South Dakota gaining – the principle difference is North Dakota has an income tax and South Dakota doesn’t.
This is excerpted from an article by Saulius “Saul” Anuzis, Chairman, and Michigan Republican Party who concludes by asking: Why are there those who still insist Americans want to pay for more and more government services?
TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR CONDOM-GRAMS
In an act of HYPOCRISY Planned Parenthood, which receives hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year, decided to waste a pile by delivering CONDOM-GRAMS to STATE legislators reminding them to be carefully with sex and the budget. There would be no argument if the symbolism was to remind legislators to stop screwing taxpayers.
Irony Alert: Code Red
In an interview over the weekend, “The boy in the bubble”, otherwise known as our illustrious and lovable, President Bush, declared that it was stupid for Democrats to increase taxes on the rich because “the rich have accountants that can help them avoid all those pesky taxes”. In short, Bush knows the little guys, you know…regular slaves, like you and I, will always pick up the tab for the rich.