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nytimes.com - 2/25/2009

Obama Budget Taxes Richest to Help Pay for Health Care

— nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — President Obama will propose further tax increases on the affluent to help pay for his... promise to make health care more accessible and affordable, administration officials said on Wednesday. That plan, coming after recent years in which ... (more) Obama Budget Taxes Richest to Help Pay for Health Care

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Barack Obama

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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 3/3/2009

Another Obama pick owes back taxes, but it's OK because, now caught, he'll pay up

— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Oh, Sergei, you mean you've lost another submarine? Word today that yet another Barack Obama appointee has... a little problem with taxes -- a $10,000 problem. Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas who would be the White House chief trade ... (more) Another Obama pick owes back taxes, but it's OK because, ...

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Barack Obama

Foreign Policy

Blair House

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irs.gov - 2/27/2009

The Making Work Pay Tax Credit

— irs.gov — Attention Employers: The IRS has issued updated withholding tables to help you implement the withholding adjustments required... by the new economic stimulus law. News release 2009-13 includes information about these tables. More details about the Making ... (more) The Making Work Pay Tax Credit

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General David Petraeus

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Jonah's Very Principled Stand
Blah3 Feed — Rarely do we get such naked admissions out of the supposed "thinkers" of the right, but good ol' Jonah Goldberg steps right up to the plate and lets fly about his thoughts on Obama's recovery efforts: ...

Hullabaloo — ... budget Power Line: Soak the Rich! Power Line: Obama’s Budget: The Beginning of the End? RedState: What Will Obama’s Budget Cost You? $25,573.48…EACH! Hot Air: The Obama plan: massive tax hikes Hugh Hewitt: Soaking The Rich Means Crippling Churches, Charities, and Home Values Patterico's Pontifications: Obama’s Budget: What the [String of Expletives Deleted]ing [Still More Deleted] National Review Online - The Corner: I Don’t Want To Pay For It National Review Online - The Corner: Over $1 Trillion in Tax ...

A fool and his money
Political Animal — A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.... Jonah Goldberg explains his opposition to President Obama's economic agenda, and what he wants to do about it. I just don't want to pay for it. It's not that I don't want government to do nice things for deserving people in certain circumstances. It's not necessarily that I'm hostile to this group of beneficiaries or that (though I am in fact hostile to some). It's that I think most of Obama's ideas will not work, will be a waste of money and will hurt the economy. And, flatly, I don't want to pay for it. I don't want to break the law. I don't want ...

Suck it up, Jonah
The Reaction — By Mustang Bobby Jonah Goldberg objects to the stimulus package -- big surprise. I just don't want to pay for it. It's not that I don't want government to do nice things for deserving people in certain circumstances. It's not necessarily that I'm hostile to this group of beneficiaries or that (though I am in fact hostile to some). It's that I think most of Obama's ideas will not work, will be a waste of money and will hurt the economy. And, flatly, I don't want to pay for it. I don't want to break the law. I don't want pull a ...

alicublog — ... It is something to see the conservative movement go totally LCD like this. Jonah Goldberg is talking about showing his patriotic disgust by looking "for every means within the boundaries of the law to minimize what I pay in taxes," which I assumed he did already, though I may have been overestimating his self-maintenance skills. His colleague ...

Republicans Plead for “Perspective” on AIG Bonuses
Firedoglake — ... It's kinda funny being lectured on numerical perspective from the same people that tried to blow up the recovery bill in the midst of the collapse of the global economy because they found 2% of it objectionable, and are as a result of the bill's passage PROTESTING OBAMA'S SOCIALISM!!11!!!1! by teabagging each other all over the country while encouraging people to 'Go Galt' and cheat on their taxes -- mostly because the tax rate for the richest 1% of Americans was returned to 1990s levels. But that's wingnuts for you. ...