Posts Tagged ‘Taxes’

Leading up to the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Barack Obama proclaimed, “No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”  To help hold the president to his promise, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is offering “Obama Tax Hike Exemption Cards” as a reminder of the pledge (since broken) made [...]

So what would you say to a taxpaying business owner that asked you to lower taxes?  A dismissive look was the first reaction from Vice President Joe Biden.  That was then followed by Biden telling the manager of a Milwaukee custard shop, “Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass all of [...]

Residents of Pennsylvania may want to make sure they get their taxes paid – and soon.  A controversial new television ad by the state’s department of revenue warns residents, “We know who you are.” The ad is somewhat disturbing in its narration and the imagery.  Starting from on high, a satellite peers down on the [...]

In a unanimous decision, RTD’s board of directors voted to not ask voters this year to double the tax to pay for the FasTracks boondoggle.  In the process, they have added years onto the time to complete the project and added hundreds of millions of more dollars to the project which is already more than [...]

 RTD has convinced themselves that Denver metro area residents want FasTracks no matter the cost.  The time has come for them to put up or shut up and stop screwing around with Denver area taxpayers.   At tonight’s meeting of the RTD Board of Directors, the decision will be made whether or not to push forward [...]

Obviously not bright enough to figure out that the public is growing increasingly disenchanted with the FasTracks boondoggle, RTD’s board of directors commissioned yet another study to gauge public support.  In the presentation (below), the Kenney Group told the board that, “78% of 2010 survey respondents say approving FasTracks was a “good idea.””  It goes [...]

Much has been written about the Colorado state legislature’s ‘dirty dozen’ tax bills that were signed into law in recent weeks.  HB 10-1193 has proven to be the most contentious, particularly after the bill forced Amazon to pull the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado.  Democrats of course are aghast at the thought that [...]

The progressive tax policies of Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and the Democrat-led state legislature have now forced a loss of income on hundreds if not thousands of Coloradoans.  Their choice to push for collection of sales tax on out of state sales has caused Amazon.com to shut down its affiliate program for all Colorado residents.  [...]

When the state legislature went into session last month we warned you to hold on to your wallets.  The writing was on the wall even then that rather than make real budget cuts, the Democrat controlled legislature would start hitting taxpayers in the pocketbook.  That unfortunately has come to fruition. Thornton’s elected representatives were unanimous [...]

So have you had enough yet?  Are you tired of a Congress and president that signed into law a $500 billion tax bill without reading it?  Had enough of the TRILLIONS of dollars of spending Washington DC is saddling us and our children with?  Are you sick to the stomach with the thought of the [...]