If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax. - Mark Steyn
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.
- Mark Steyn
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right. - Mark Steyn
LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New Yor… - Mark Steyn
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New Yor…
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. - Mark Steyn
It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it. - Mark Steyn
The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people. - Mark Steyn
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down? - Mark Steyn
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it w… - Mark Steyn
The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it w…
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you ca… - Mark Steyn
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you ca…
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