March 2012
16 posts
“A previous version of this article misstated how many of the president’s...”
– Correction clarification made to the article titled Obama Lays Out Plan to Cut Reliance on Fuel Imports in the New York Times. (via talkstraight)
February 2012
29 posts
New, Higher, U.K. 50% tax rate 'failing to boost...
The U.K. government is learning about the economic lesson that “if you tax something, you get less of it.” Following an increase in the top marginal income tax rate to 50%, tax revenues from high-income taxpayers are falling, and are not going up, as the Treasury somehow expected by ignoring the economic lesson that “people respond to incentives.”
“Most Americans think the federal government is too large, spends too much money,...”
– Ron Paul (via ronpaulrevolution)
“[I will] fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican...”
– Rick Santorum (via conservativesforboobs)
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is...”
– Ronald Reagan (via conservativesforboobs)
“What’s *just* has been debated for centuries but let me offer you my
definition...”
– Walter Williams (via primal-libertarian)
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there...”
– Lao Tzu
“Henry Ford used to pay his workers five dollars a day [highest in the world at...”
– Peter Schiff, during testimony before congressional jobs committee.
“You can’t give a person more than he’s earned without leaving someone with less...”
– Rep. Alan West
“Operation Fast and Furious was specifically conceived so that “walked” guns...”
– Bob Owens in an article he wrote for Pajamas Media
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
– Socrates
“Modern “liberalism” is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of “tolerance” are...”
– The Liberal Enforcers - Mark Steyn - National Review Online (via ajamison)
“…what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one...”
– Thomas Jefferson from his inaugural address of 1801 (via conservatarian)
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Obamanomics: Real Unemployment Rate Rose To... →
talkstraight:
Once again, the civilian labor force participation rate has declined, from 64 percent to 63.7 percent in a single month. Since January 2009, it has declined from 65.7 percent, resulting in approximately 4.7 million people no longer being counted towards the unemployment rate. If they were included, the real rate of unemployed working age adults would be 11.01 percent, and the...
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your feet. Try to make sense of...”
– Professor Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday. (via muldershutup)