For you academics: Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance

Why don’t we count the $200 billion we’ll save by not invading Honduras, too?

EM,

You are thinking small ball. How about not building the Death Star, another no-expense savings, and count the $85Q against the national debt? That leaves America holing a $84.984Q surplus!

Hell, expand all those Bush tax cuts!

DGB

Do we have to count Moochelle’s vacations or is she cutting back from $10 million to $8 million? But then we could figure the savings involved in her not taking herself and her two “senior aides” to Spain and she could use the savings to go to Italy this time.

Meh, spend all you want. There is plenty.

Schadenfreude on December 3, 2012 at 12:46 PM

Only 54? What about trees for the other three states?

When you take a tax deduction for a charitable contribution you are being subsidized as surely as if someone wrote you a check.

urban elitist on November 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM

And there lies exposed the economic mindset of the liberal: all money is inherently owned by the government, and every dollar they do not take from you, is actually a dollar they gave you.

It doesn’t even occur to him that marginal rates are set artificially high in order to a). make it look like they’re really working hard to get all that ill-gotten booty from the evil rich, and b). to make the difference between marginal and effective rates look like they’re doing you some kind of special favor. “Well, your tax rate SHOOOUUULD be 95% but since you subscribed to our social engineering policies, we have been given a special dispensation to permit you to pay slightly less than that.”

“It’s a budget gimmick, sir.”

Actually, it’s a deliberate lie.

Why don’t we count the $200 billion we’ll save by not invading Honduras, too? Hey, we can not invade Canada and save a couple of trillion dollars. If we really want to cut spending, let’s not invade China! We can save eleventy-zillion dollars that way.

Amazing, I actually laughed out loud at that one.

Wait until my wife comes home and says that she didn’t buy that $150 purse, a new $350 jacket, and a new $1500 necklace. Since she just “saved” $2000, she used that savings to spend $450 on new shoes and we come out $1550 ahead of the game. Sweet.

Mo_mac on December 3, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Everyone needs to keep that in their back pocket for when some moron tries dropping that Obama is cutting spending with the wars ending.

There are those who say make no mistake and let me be clear, he probably believes what he is saying. It’s faith-based economics. If something doesn’t fit your religious dogma (and/or the math is hard), you just simply refuse to believe in it:

When you take a tax deduction for a charitable contribution you are being subsidized as surely as if someone wrote you a check.

urban elitist on November 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/30/americans-401k-plans-an-untapped-source-for-tax-revenue/comment-page-2/#comment-2205614

rogerb on December 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM

Not confiscating = subsidy.

I need to stop subsidizing every democrat I encounter and rob them.

When you take a tax deduction for a charitable contribution you are being subsidized as surely as if someone wrote you a check.

urban elitist on November 30, 2012 at 2:10 PM

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/30/americans-401k-plans-an-untapped-source-for-tax-revenue/comment-page-2/#comment-2205614

What’s the difference in victims of a holdup pointing out the rich dude to the robber and encouraging the crook to take his money, and Obama’s Takers saying that they want Obama to raise taxes on the rich?

WestTexasBirdDog on December 3, 2012 at 12:07 PM

The difference is that the hold-up victims don’t get paid off by the robber.

We can save eleventy-zillion dollars that way.

Hahahahaha, that was priceless :)

Just think what we’d save if we didn’t launch an attack on “sanctimonious tax cheats”!