Joe Stack, the IRS plane pilot, may not have been a teabagger - but the teabaggers seem to have adopted him as their mascot:

Just a few hours after Joseph Andrew Stack killed himself in an attack on an Austin building that housed local IRS office someone went and set up a fan club for him […]

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Reprinted from Sullivan’s site because it’s so telling:
“The attack on Pearl Harbor launched America into the Second World War, and our Greatest Generation did not hesitate when asked to sacrifice for their country. American men enlisted in droves, American women went to work in the factories that became our “Arsenal of Democracy,” and many Americans […]

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Drudge has been all over the “pity the poor rich” meme lately, linking to this piece in the NY Post today:
Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state’s top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to […]

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So Texas Gov. Rick Perry, as you might have seen, says his state has the right to secede.
As noted earlier today, we fought a war over whether such a “right” exists. And the result of that war was: No.
But, the more I think about it, the more I think Texas should be permitted to secede, […]

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Via Sullivan, Kristin Soltis at Pollster.com offers some advice to Republicans who might want to reach out to voters who aren’t are old and white:
Fundamental principles of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes - are not embraced by younger voters at the same level as voters overall. Fiscal conservatives and Republicans have quite a bit […]

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Amazed, sometimes, at the number of my right-wing correspondents - and not well-off correspondents, mind you - who seem to regard taxation as pure theft.
There is extreme resentment that they should be required to pay to help out anyone else. Indeed, few weeks back I received a very long and well-written from a woman who […]

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I now have to wonder whether any Democrat anywhere has ever actually paid taxes.

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Frightening, expounding on something we’ve been lightly touching on ’round these parts for weeks:
The economy faces a slump deeper than the Great Depression and a growing deficit threatens the credit of the United States itself, former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, said at the Reuters Global Finance Summit on Wednesday.
Whitehead, 86, said the prospect of […]

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And so here we have an AP story telling us that magnanimous Americans, sure, are willing to wait for those tax cuts promised during the election by both sides, because “fixing the economy” should take priority.
Only 36 percent say trimming income taxes should be a top priority when the new president takes office in January, […]

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Interesting to see what appears to be a grass-roots reaction to a governmental decision based on religious conservatism in the Eastern Lancaster County School District.
That residents and school board members might spend their valuable time debating the morality of gambling is telling. Of course there’s a debate to be had there; and the amount of […]

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I want to highlight something Art Vandolay says here, because it’s a recurring theme, something we’ve addressed before and something that’s going to crop up again and again and again as we go down the road.
Remarking on John McCain’s plan to let states decide if they want drilling offshore, Art says:
McCain wants to allow states […]

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Or why the fading of the “mirage economy” means all of us are going to be a little poorer, or a lot:
What I’ve described is a double whammy for American households: the slower growth that comes with downsizing a number of key industries that expanded as a result of the credit bubble, along with rising […]

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About two months ago Donegal High School was staging a career day, and wanted someone from the newspapers to come for the dog and pony show. I do a pretty mean dog and pony show, so I got the call.
I’d not been to the high school in years. And though I’d been reading about how […]

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Via John Cole, who notes that patriotism means dodging your taxes:
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax […]

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I’ve always been sort of wary of the term “fixed income.” It’s used, of course, most often with seniors - they’re on a ”fixed income,” and therefore in peril. And that can certainly be true, though it’s also true that just because you’re on a ”fixed income” doesn’t mean you shop for dinner in the dog food aisle. One […]

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I’d actually noticed this yesterday, perusing the Corner, where Larry Kudlow was arguing that now that a recession appears to be waiting just beyond the door to 2008, what we really need is… wait for it…
Tax cuts!
But not just tax cuts; we need the right kind of tax cuts - tax cuts for the rich, […]

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