Fair share, indeed. CNS: According to statistics compiled from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Tax Foundation, those people making above $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, and carried 93.3 percent of the total tax burden. In contrast, Americans making less than $50,000 had an effective tax rate of 3.5 percent and their total share of the tax burden was just 6.7 percent. Americans making more
April 2012
April 16, 2012
things that fascinate me [updated]
Ever wondered who the oldest (that is, earliest born) person to have appeared in a motion picture might be? Well, I can’t be certain — there are so many uncredited parts in, say, early DW Griffith films — but I may have found the oldest person listed on IMDB: Sarah Whitley (born Sarah Robinson), who portrayed herself in “Roundhay Garden Scene”, an 1888 short documentary film. She was born in
April 15, 2012
Who you gonna believe? Turbo Tim or your lyin’ eyes? [Darleen Click]
via Weasel Zippers, a short clip of Little Timmy Geithner asserting that the “total energy costs” for the “average family” has gone down After I picked my jaw off the floor, a quick peek at our household expenses easily confirms what Casa Click spends on energy — Our electric bill averages $85, our natural gas bill $32 (from low of about $15 during summer months to a high of about
April 15, 2012
Former Congresscritter Patrick Kennedy admits about Obama White House “Quid pro quo? Sure, that’s how this business works.” [Darleen Click]
Taken, what, three years for the NYTimes to notice The Chicago Way? Most donors, including Dr. Mohlenbrock and Mr. Kiani, declined to talk about their motivations for giving. But Patrick J. Kennedy, the former representative from Rhode Island, who donated $35,800 to an Obama re-election fund last fall while seeking administration support for a nonprofit venture, said contributions were simply a part of “how this business works.” “If you want
April 14, 2012
in which I respond to Steven Taylor at OTB
Asks Taylor, referring to revelations that Obama paid a lower tax rate than his secretary: Keith Koffler asks: Did Obama Pay a Lower Rate Than His Secretary? He (as do his commenters and Protein Wisdom’s Jeff G.) treats this as some sort of Gotcha! Moment (or an example of hypocrisy or irony). However, wouldn’t such a revelation actually underscore Obama’s argument regarding the so-called “Buffet Rule” i.e., that the tax
April 14, 2012
An inconvenient (set of) truth(s)
Obama has learned his lesson now, I’m sure: always keep to the prompter, or else make sure your people pre-vet for proper Journolist credentials the ink-stained maggots who presume to question you. (h/t Blake)
April 14, 2012
Backfired [Darleen Click]
And, to add to what I’ve already pointed out: The real threat that the Ann Romneys of the world represent to the statist Left (via Instapundit) I am the counterweight to the state. Therefore, I am dangerous. I am subversive simply by existing. My love for my children is a dominant force that works its way into their psyches and that trumps the state-run schools and the state complicit media
April 14, 2012
“Political Correctness is ruining America” [Darleen Click]
But that is precisely the point you RacistHomophobicIslamophobicSexistAblistPrivilegedBiblehumper … HOW DARE YOU STAND IN THE WAY of the bright, egalitarian, utopian future with your old-fashioned, risible Western Civ devotion to ideals Elizabeth Bierenday, a junior at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, was asked to create a mural for the school. She sketched a mural that showed the growth of a boy into adulthood. The last image showed a man with
April 13, 2012
Vagina Warriors double down: Hillary Rosen was right about that *itch Ann but she was taken out of context and stay-at-home-moms are really lazy, luxury items or something [Darleen Click]
You’d think that when Hillary Rosen let the Left-feminist Sisterhood Veil drop (and they just can’t seem to help themselves there) to articulate in no uncertain terms what Good Democrat Womyns really think about inauthentic women like Ann Romney, they would mumble something resembling a mea culpa and slink off to stick some more pins into their Michelle Malkin voodoo dolls. Sadly, No All the journalists piled on today agreeing