Come on, guys!

This was my first thought when I read about Socialist French President Hollande’s revised approach for taxing the heck out of the wealthy. The top French court recently rejected his attempted follow-through on his campaign promise to tax individuals making more than a million euros a year at the punishing rate of 75 percent — [...]

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Demographics.

A friendly reminder to congressional Republicans before Obama’s big amnesty push that comprehensive immigration reform alone isn’t going to solve their problem with Latinos. According to a new impreMedia/Latino Decisions survey of more than 5,600 Latino voters, a whopping 77 percent favor increasing taxes on the wealthy. While the vast majority of Democratic Latino voters [...]

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Taxes.

CHRIS WALLACE: Let me just ask one question about what we will now henceforth call the Kristol scenario: Which is that they’ll end up passing the halfway cave, a limited cave on tax rates. That doesn’t avoid the fiscal cliff, does it? BILL KRISTOL: It avoids the tax side of the fiscal cliff. There’s still [...]

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It would be funny... if it weren't so sad.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep on saying it until such a time as communism finally falls for good: In practice, communism has only ever been about the wealthy and well-positioned maintaining their power and privilege over the meticulously brainwashed masses. Communism is not and never has been about ensuring the happiness of equality, [...]

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Meh.

Let’s put aside for a moment President Obama and the Democrats’ class-warmongering rhetoric about wanting “millionaires and billionaires” to pay their fair share (I’m pretty sure that dubbing families that make over $250k/year “millionaires” is an over-generalization, but yeah, sure), and forget that the projected revenue from hiking taxes on the wealthy is a laughably [...]

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Nuance.

I don’t understand why either side would want to do this. Actually, wait, that’s not true: I kind of understand why Democrats would want to do it. If it happens, it’ll be a heavy bludgeon to use against Republicans in the next election cycle. One possible change would tax the entire salary earned by those [...]

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"He doesn't like those people."

Behold, the self-deceiving power of unswerving progressivism on an ideological tear. Joe Scarborough’s face, at least, seems to suggest that he’s thinking somewhere along the lines of “Is this crackpot for real?,” but Matthews really steals the show here. You know what Ryan believes in? Getting rid of the cap-gains tax, period!  So he’s a [...]

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Short answer: Yes.

Last week, Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman wrote about poverty in America in the New York Times. Edelman spent most of his time outlining what he sees as the causes of poverty in America, but he did offer some basic liberal fare when it came to solutions: We know what we need to do — [...]

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Pander, pander, pander...

In a Friday speech in Roanoke, Virginia, President Obama attacked the idea that the wealthy get that way on their own. From the Real Clear Politics partial transcript: [L]ook, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, [...]

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...Or something.

As loathe as I am to admit it, I actually think President Obama’s piecemeal “let’s pass what we can agree on, and argue about the rest later” proposal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts just for those making less than a quarter of a million dollars a year was pretty darn clever. While anyone not [...]

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News flash. Just kidding.

“There’s nothing wrong with asking the wealthy to pay a little more in taxes.” -BHO I feel like I’m constantly beating readers over the head with the simple logic that, due to America’s national percentage-based and graduated income tax, the country’s wealthy already pay “a little more” than most people do in taxes — why [...]

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Gotta' love federalism.

In light of President Obama’s exhortation to hike taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year earlier today, here’s a well-timed piece of evidence demonstrating what happens when you decide you’d rather engage in populist persecution and punish the wealthy for their economic contributions rather than make tough budget-cutting decisions. A new report indicates [...]

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No, this time, socialism will work!

France’s socialists recently gained a sizable majority of their parliament, as well as electing the ultimate champagne socialist to the presidency. I’m enjoying following the French beat, not because I take any perverse pleasure in watching countries suffer and stagnate beneath the myriad opportunity costs and petulant ineptitudes of socialism — but rather because the [...]

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"I think I’m a different kind of a, quote, 'liberal' in that I think people should be true to themselves."

Cheer up, Jon. If they weren’t calling you a Nazi for that, they’d be calling you a Nazi for appearing on Fox. After multiple Lovitz posts, the first half of this segment will be familiar to you, but at least watch the second half for when Kelly plays devil’s advocate by giving him the Elizabeth [...]

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Well, some major donors.

So here’s the solution to yesterday’s mystery of why Team Hopenchange would court scandal by continuing to rely on Jon Corzine as a major bundler. Plain and simple: Beggars can’t be choosers. From Wall Street to Hollywood, from doctors and lawyers, the traditional big sources of campaign cash are not delivering for the Obama campaign [...]

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Class-y.

The U.S. has a fee-vah and the only prescription is more embarrassingly feeble budget gimmicks. Election status: Over. I kid, I kid — although those GOP numbers are a bit closer than I would have expected. Anyway, the important data on the Buffett Rule isn’t what people think when asked, it’s how much they care [...]

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The one percent.

Actually, I don’t think that’s what she’s saying here but that headline is simply too sweet to resist. (That was HuffPo’s original headline too before they changed it.) The quote from BuzzFeed: “I realize there are some wealthy individuals – I’m not one of them, but some wealthy individuals who have a lot of stock [...]

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