Category Archives: IRS

UPDATED: IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund

IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging …

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles

Hot Air » Blog Archive » War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles. Amazing. In one fell swoop, the lawsuit (a) gives Fox a reason to keep covering the story, (b) presents a thorny legal issue that’ll attract media to …

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UPDATED: Here’s a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel’s name out of the discussion. UPDATE:Judge Okays Chrysler Deal, Despite Fact It’s Unconstitutional ‘n Stuff; Obama Official Admits $7.5 Billion in “Loans” to Chrysler Will Never Be Paid Back

Somehow, it doesn’t further your case.  —  Yet that’s precisely what Obama did Monday, singling out the powerful Harlem congressman … Chrysler won’t repay bailout money An Obama administration official confirmed Tuesday that Chrysler won’t be repaying the loans, though …

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POLS GONE WILD

POLS GONE WILD: *PAPER: Senator’s husband cashes in on crisis; Feinstein sought $25B for agency… *TARP INSPECTOR GENERAL WARNS OF ‘CATASTROPHIC FRAUD’ POTENTIAL… *Key Dem Said to Have Agreed to Aid Lobbyists; NSA intercepted talk… *Murtha’s Defense Earmarks Draw Questions… …

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Hot Air » Axelrod: The tea-party movement could be “unhealthy”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Axelrod: The tea-party movement could be “unhealthy”. No surprise that the master of astroturfing would find a true grassroots movement distasteful. To be scrupulously fair, it’s not the parties themselves that he’s calling “unhealthy” …

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Figures on government spending and debt – Yahoo Finance

Figures on government spending and debt – Yahoo Finance. Total public debt subject to limit April 16 11,125,587 Statutory debt limit 12,104,000 Total public debt outstanding April 16 11,183,899 Operating balance April 16 257,351 Interest fiscal year 2009 thru February …

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Chicago Tax Day Tea Party Pictures : Founding Bloggers

BREAKING Chicago Tax Day Tea Party Pictures : Founding Bloggers. Check out all the pictures!  I loved this sign: Nice job Chicago and great coverage from Founding Bloggers

GOVERNOR SAYS TEXAS CAN LEAVE THE UNION IF IT WANTS

Perry fires up anti-tax crowd. Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!” An animated Perry told …

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UPDATED: Tea Party Panic « The Rhetorican

UPDATED: Tea Party Panic « The Rhetorican. More on Leftie Tea Party-phobia at Legal Insurrection: “Liberal bloggers and media groups can’t get the Tea Party phenomenon out of their heads. It wasn’t supposed to be this way”. And don’t miss …

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FACT CHECK: Obama having it both ways on economy?

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer President Barack Obama’s plea Tuesday for patience in the economic turmoil fits with the view of most economists that a turnaround will take some time. It doesn’t fit quite so neatly with his bullish …

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Of the $126 million in earmarks the bill sends to Massachusetts, more than one out of every five dollars is going toward preserving the legacy of the Kennedys

Obama vowed to get serious about earmaks though..so serious that he had a private signing of the bill.  Read some of these links, one days worth of stories..as Jed Clampett would say..”Pitiful..just pitiful” Good news: “Capitalism will be different” now, …

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Fact Check: Obama’s Words on Home Aid Ring Hollow

Obama glossed over a number of complex realities in delivering his speech to Congress and a nation hungry for economic salvation. President Barack Obama knows Americans are unhappy that the government could rescue people who bought mansions beyond their means. …

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Tom Daschle Is Another Tax Cheat In Obama’s Cabinet

This is even deeper than first reported on Friday: The report indicates that Daschle’s failure to pay more than $101,000 taxes on the car and driver a wealthy friend let him use from 2005 through 2007 is not the only …

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Screw up, move up. It’s the Washington way

Giving in to Geithner: The B.O. Republicans bow down The Barack Obama Republicans are Bending Over again. For weeks, we’ve watched capitulationsist GOP Senators rationalize away Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner’s tax, legal, and bailout failout troubles. Sen. Orrin Hatch …

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