The Upcoming Election: Part II-Clinton and the Democrats

Once more, stolen from my youngest brother, Benjamin… I guess I’m heartless. I’m heartless because I dont think people should be given loans if they can not repay them. I’m heartless because when people take out loans that they can never repay, the taxpayers has to pay the loans for them. This is where part our tax money goes. Not only does our tax money go to social wellfare, social security, and foreign aid (foreign aid actually makes Africa worse off as I will explain in a later note), but it

Presidential Tax Plan: Use More of the Deductions Available Now!

by Terry A. Sacia Most Americans don’t know there are legal ways using tax deductions to keep more of your hard earned money in your pocket and it is all perfectly legal? Income taxes are a dirty word to most American tax payers, but what if you were making the tax code a benefit instead of a feared monster? In this country we pay a horrible thing called income tax. You know the reason there are two figures on your payroll stub, the amount you actually earned then the amount you actually get?

John Redwood’s contribution to the Banking Bill debate

Mr. John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): I welcome a Bill on this subject, and I am glad that my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench are in a collaborative spirit because this is a case where working together might improve the Bill, but it needs a lot of improvement because the main things that have gone wrong in the past 11 years stem from the grave weakening of the Bank of England that occurred in 1997. I would like the Bill to go much further than the current draft in giving back to t

We Did It! We Walked Western (Part III)

  Good Monday morning to you. I’m awake and “moving” this morning and feeling really great about the big walk on Saturday. Will’s post had me nodding and smiling. (Especially about the ibuprofen part.) His flicker set is also way more detailed than mine but I thought I’d throw a few of my photos up of things we saw and said along the way. We saw two buildings shaped like food during the day. Thought sadly this building no longer sells hot dogs (real estate? insurance? can’t remember…) I’m ple