
![]() | The House version of a Health Care overhaul bill will not stand up well in the August heat. It makes for scary reading and if the powers that be could have muscled it through it wouldn't be hanging in the wind for all of us to take shots at it. But there it is and it makes for head scratching moments. My friend, Sydney Williams, who writes one of the best investment letters I get to read, passed along some highlights that were extracted by a buddy of his, Peter Fleckenstein. » Read more |
![]() | "But I've said nothing so far. And I can keep it up for as long as it takes And it don't matter who you are If I'm doing my job then its your resolve that breaks Because the hook brings you back" (Blues Traveler; "Hook"). » Read more |
![]() | Many times over the past several months, I have opened a newspaper or tuned into a show to hear opponents of health care reform say that it’s not that they oppose universal health care – they just don’t want to pay for it. Why, they argue, should they have to pay higher taxes when they are perfectly satisfied with the way the current system benefits them? » Read more |
![]() | Soon the IRS tax form will be two lines and two lines only. First will be how much did you make, second will simply be the instructions to send it all in. The tax plans coming out of Congress to pay for the health proposals are punitive and confiscatory (but are likely to kill any chances that the bill would be enacted into law). » Read more |
![]() | I thought I would be protected from having to pay for the barrage of spending programs that Congress has passed or is considering. After all, I was promised that I would not see my taxes go up even a nickel if I earned less than $250,000. Heck, I was even safe with the Biden revision to $200,000 as the definition of “rich”. But now I am beginning to see the con, the semantic dodge, the switch behind the curtain, writes William Dunkelberg. » Read more |

