The Obama Change Machine
May 13, 2008
I have not had much time to post lately, but my new portal at work has been down for the last 30 minutes so I headed over to American Thinker and found this post concerning Obama’s changing opinions during the past 30 days.
[Update: Malkin is letting us know that the House Republicans are jumping on the "change" express.]
Since Senator Obama will probably be the Democrat nominee for president this fall, we need to start carefully looking at what he says now as compared to what he said before when he was trying to get to the top of the Democrat ticket. He’s for change alright - he’s changing his positions every couple of days. Read more
Class Envy Continues - States Extort from Aircraft Owners
May 2, 2008
In the early 1990s, the U.S. Congress enacted a new law that taxed “luxury” items 10 percent. This was a big deal, since automobiles priced more than $30,000, boats more than $100,000, jewelry more than $10,000 and aircraft priced more than $250,000 were all targeted in the effort to enrich the government coffers.
So, why would you think this is a bad idea? Heck, when your talking about the people who are actually buying these luxury items, they certainly wouldn’t mind paying a bit more for these items would they? They are rich ya know, they can afford it. Tell that to the employees that were actually making these boats in Florida or selling these cars in New York. Read more
