Category Archives: Tax Policy

More Offensive Taxation


Posted by josh

So, the Obama administration is going to charge a tax on Christmas trees. The purpose? To improve the marketing image of… Christmas trees.

I don’t think I need to say anything else about it. It’s the height of stupidity and government abuse of power.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/08/obama-couldnt-wait-his-new-christmas-tree-tax/

President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board.  The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)).  And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).


It’s About Time!


Posted by josh

The voters of Colorado stood up for themselves this week! They rejected a ridiculous measure promising temporary tax increases to fund schools. First, there’s no such thing as a temporary tax increase. Sometime between now and the expiration, there will be another pressing need and they’ll extend it or simply make it permanent.

Further, who are they trying to kid? More money to fix schools? That hasn’t worked for 50 years, why in the world should we believe it will work now? It won’t. It’ll fatten the wallets of Big Union executives and further the income gap between teachers and their private sector counterparts, but it won’t help any students.

Good for you, Colorado. I hope you’re just the first.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/colorado-voters-reject-higher-taxes-education.html

In what could be a harbinger of the 2012 election, Colorado voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have raised nearly $3 billion for education by temporarily increasing state income, sales and use taxes.

With 59% of the projected vote counted, Proposition 103 was trailing 65% to 35%, the Associated Press reported.

 


Read MY Lips…


Posted by josh

My administration, unlike the current one, will strive to make America more excellent. To that end, we will oppose silly, petulent legislation like that being proposed to tax financial transactions. Class warfare is a losing strategy for national growth.

In the coming days, we will put our no new tax pledge into writing. Additionally, we will unveil a package of massive tax cuts that we are sure will immediately excite the American economy and markets.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-01/lawmakers-to-propose-transaction-tax-for-financial-firms-modeled-on-europe.html

“It’s a significant way to raise some needed revenue,” Harkin said in an interview today in Washington. “Quite frankly, I bet nobody would even feel it.”


Tax Credits for Gun Owning Citizens


Posted by josh

My administration will immediately abolish the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency. With that money recouped, a portion will be set aside to fund $1500 tax credits for any citizen with a clean criminal record who buys a gun and passes a gun safety course. Further, we will draft legislation to increase protections for any citizen who safely and legally discharges their weapon in the process of defending their home or person. We will consider all proposals for the introduction of bounties for drug dealers and violent criminals.

However, under no circumstances will my administration be found to have aided drug cartels. We will not arm or supply them. We will not encourage them to commit violence against innocent Americans. We will not seek to create public outrage to cover us as we strip Americans of their rights.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/12/issa-issues-subpoena-to-holder-in-fast-and-furious-investigation/

“Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged,” the California Republican said in a statement. “The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It’s time we know the whole truth.