Here is an interesting way to evaluate the Obama and McCain tax plans - show how these tax plans have been working already, in various states.
Mr. McCain will lower taxes. Mr. Obama will raise them, especially on small businesses. To understand why, you need to know something about the "infamous" top 1% of income tax filers: In order to avoid high corporate tax rates and the double taxation of dividends, small business owners have increasingly filed as individuals rather than corporations. When Democrats talk about soaking the rich, it isn't the Rockefellers they're talking about; it's the companies where most Americans work. Three out of four individual income tax filers in the top 1% are, in fact, small businesses.
In the name of taxing the rich, Mr. Obama would raise the marginal tax rates to over 50% on millions of small businesses that provide 75% of all new jobs in America. Investors and corporations will also pay higher taxes under the Obama program, but, as the Michigan-Ohio-Illinois experience painfully demonstrates, workers ultimately pay for higher taxes in lower wages and fewer jobs.
Mr. Obama would spend all the savings from walking out of Iraq to expand the government. Mr. McCain would reserve all the savings from our success in Iraq to shrink the deficit, as part of a credible and internally consistent program to balance the budget by the end of his first term. Mr. Obama's program offers no hope, or even a promise, of ever achieving a balanced budget.
I have a family of raccoons who won't leave my back deck alone. There's also a skunk that shows up periodically. Tonight, they took apart the bird feeder and are feasting on seed. I'm tired of them knocking things around.
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Just woke up from a dream where Apple's iWeb application was running city government. A JavaScript error was tearing the people of the city apart.
]]>Anyone know a lawyer in the bay area, who knows tenant/landlord law? I need to talk to someone ASAP. Any leads you could forward would be appreciated.
]]>I received my Roku Netflix box yesterday. For those who haven't seen or heard of this, it's basically a box that allows you to play movies on your TV that you have added to your Netflix Instant Queue. What I find nice about the idea is that it's $99 and nothing more. (Apple TV charges you for each movie rental, and you only have 24 hours to complete the movie - which is an issue, if you have crazy work and kid schedules like we do.)