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Obama’s Class-Warfare, Tax-the-Rich Budget

By The Admiral | Published Wednesday February 15th, 2012 @ 5:37 PM CDT

If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners, and corporations. The capital-gains tax goes from 15 percent to 24 percent (including Obamacare). The dividends tax goes from 15 percent to nearly 40 [...]

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Super Committee’s Failure Gives Obama a Super Excuse for Our Faltering Economy

By The Admiral | Published Tuesday November 22nd, 2011 @ 9:59 AM CDT

On July 17th, while debt ceiling talks were at their height, I had a post on Big Government in which I wrote: Look folks, we literally have Obama right where we want him. Not only is he beatable, he has actually already beaten himself by spending this country into the ground. Now is no time [...]

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The Super Committee: Even If It Had Succeeded, It Was a Failure

By The Admiral | Published Tuesday November 22nd, 2011 @ 9:59 AM CDT

We last week passed the $15 trillion national debt mark. It continues hurtling upward, almost completely unabated. We the People did our job and then some in the historic 2010 election, delivering more than 70 new Republicans to the Congress – on their promises to rein in out-of-control Washington spending. Read the rest at Big [...]