Hey, you, get off of my cloud.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Looks like we can afford those tax cuts...

Well, well, it looks like we ended up with about $14 billion in loose change behind the sofa cushions for the last fiscal year. By my reckoning we could have afforded that second GST reduction, a return to the lower incomes tax rates enacted in 2005 and a business tax cut too.

I guess the real question is whether we'll share in that $30-40 tax brak evenly, or if it will be handed out as yet another spending program in tax cut clothing.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Illegal Trade?

The Liberty Dollar may get some national (or even international attention) as a couple in Wisconsin have been charged with offering a $20 medallion in exchange for goods. Read the full story here.

While I'm not a money crank I certainly see no reason for any government to get involved in the free exchange of goods. The way the US dollar has been going lately, I think many people might be happy to take silver in place of legal tender.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

It's not a surplus...

...it's an overtaxation!

Politics is as much about winning the war of semantics as fighting on the actual issues, how successful would the pro-choice movement be if their opponents had been successful in labeling them the pro-baby killers?

So as our federal government announces its tenth (give or take) annual surplus I call on everybody out there to start calling it what it is, an overtaxation.