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Mercatus Center senior research fellow Veronique de Rugy created the chart to the right illustrating Hauser’s Law which Standford University professor Kurt Hauser recapped in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal:
Over the past six decades, tax revenues as a percentage of GDP have averaged just under 19% regardless of the top marginal personal income tax rate.
The top marginal rate has been as high as 92% (1952-53) and as low as 28% (1988-90).
This observation was first reported in an op-ed I wrote for this newspaper in March 1993.
A wit later dubbed this “Hauser’s Law.”
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Professor Hauser explains the behavior behind the data shown in these [see link] charts:
Over this period there have been more than 30 major changes in the tax code including personal income tax rates, corporate tax rates, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, investment tax credits, depreciation schedules, Social Security taxes, and the number of tax brackets among others.
Yet during this period, federal government tax collections as a share of GDP have moved within a narrow band of just under 19% of GDP.
Why?
Higher taxes discourage the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship.
When tax rates are raised, taxpayers are encouraged to shift, hide and underreport income.
Taxpayers divert their effort from pro-growth productive investments to seeking tax shelters, tax havens and tax exempt investments.
This behavior tends to dampen economic growth and job creation.
Lower taxes increase the incentives to work, produce, save and invest, thereby encouraging capital formation and jobs.
Taxpayers have less incentive to shelter and shift income.
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“Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine , even comes close.
When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington , we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on ‘Macbeth’. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.”
Oh my, WaPo is defending President Bush and factchecking the Plame movie, Fair Game:
Hollywood myth-making on Valerie Plame controversy
WE’RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews. But the recently released film “Fair Game” – which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq – deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of what its promoters are saying about it. The protagonists portrayed in the movie, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV and former spy Valerie Plame, claim that it tells the true story of their battle with the Bush administration over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Ms. Plame’s exposure as a CIA agent. “It’s accurate,” Ms. Plame told The Post. Said Mr. Wilson: “For people who have short memories or don’t read, this is the only way they will remember that period.”
We certainly hope that is not the case. In fact, “Fair Game,” based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions – not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post’s Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.
The movie portrays Mr. Wilson as a whistle-blower who debunked a Bush administration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, an investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found that Mr. Wilson’s reporting did not affect the intelligence community’s view on the matter, and an official British investigation found that President George W. Bush’s statement in a State of the Union address that Britain believed that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger was well-founded.
“Fair Game” also resells the couple’s story that Ms. Plame’s exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy – but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.
Hollywood has a habit of making movies about historical events without regard for the truth; “Fair Game” is just one more example. But the film’s reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored. Mr. Wilson claimed that he had proved that Mr. Bush deliberately twisted the truth about Iraq, and he was eagerly embraced by those who insist the former president lied the country into a war.
My favorite part of the fisking:
Though it was long ago established that Mr. Wilson himself was not telling the truth – not about his mission to Niger and not about his wife – the myth endures. We’ll join the former president in hoping that future historians get it right.
Just to give “equal time”… not that I’m a convinced supporter, mind you… but Larry Johnson, over at No Quarters, is railing against the machine about this WaPo article. But then, Larry was always a rah rah team for the Wilsons.
Goes to show, we have some things in common with many on the opposite aisle, but still run up against some brick walls. The Plame Blame Game era is one of those. However, when it comes to Obama, we’re all on the same page.
BTW… INRE Billy Bob’s inadequacy with charts, pictures and things, we’ll give him a leg up… like some help with arrows and time stamps or Presidential eras?.
What were you saying, Billy Bob? With everything going *for* him, Clinton’s tax policies were a revenue loser.
Despite having both the dot.com bubble burst handed to him, combined with the fiscal hit from 911, the Bush tax cuts started improving the revenue stream.
Get your cash back for your education, dude. You’re an embarrassment….
Randy
12 years ago
Missy: There was a lot of yellow cake found in Iraq. We sold it to the Canadians and used the money for Iraq reconstruction projects. Of course, there was no potential for WMD in Iraq! LOL
I read one of L Johnson’s threads a couple of weeks ago, can’t remember what it was about, but his readers were really lambasting him. Even his regulars aren’t always on the same page.
Old Trooper 2
12 years ago
@ Randy…or the VX gas compounds for filling Arty rounds. 😉
The Wilsons were quite the couple. Pushing paper at Langley does not an ‘Operative’ make.
A lot of smoke & noise but a dud round.
Frank Rich/NYTimes thinks Obama has Stockholm Syndrome from being held hostage by those 42 Senate Republicans. Just wait til members of the House are sworn, imagine the dire diagnosis. 😉
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Dan
12 years ago
As much as many prognosticators and so-called experts are saying President Obama is going to have a tough time getting re-elected, the reality of the situation is that President Obama will get re-elected against almost any potential GOP challenger.
However, one candidate cannot be over-looked. If we learned anything from 2008, we should’ve learned that organization and social media skills are paramount to a campaign. No one is actually going to “come out of nowhere”. To become the most powerful person in the world, you have to build quite an organization. That’s why only one person has a chance to beat President Obama in 2012.
That was funny, two bottles of saline because he has two eyes, sheesh, they make a wine bra to wear to PTA meetings? The ending was the best. Thanks for sharing!
Missy, I cracked up on that one, but then I realized these are the nitwits who are supposed to keep us safe. Aye Chihuahua, muchas Apaches! It makes you wonder if they have an exclusive contract with Bin Laden for stupid Terrorists.
A Canadian Indian told me a racist joke.
He asked me, “what do you call a native terrorist?”
I told him, I had no idea.
He said, “Osama been drinkin.”
He thought it was way funnier than I did.
I am the last one to hold it against someone for laughing at their own joke. Sometimes the joke teller is the only one who can appreciate the humor of a good joke.
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gregory_dittman
12 years ago
Ethenol was and is not a scam. Brazil had at one point 95% of it’s vehicles on ethanol and now 80% of it’s light vehicle sales comprise of ethenol vehicles. The change was a result from an ethanol shortage and low oil prices in the 1980s with high oil prices this decade. 20% of its ethenol is exported. The production price per gallon is $1.10. 5% of it’s agriculture is dedicated to Ethenol.
The U.S. does have a crop it can use for Ethenol and that’s switchgrass. Switchgrass can be harvested 3 times a year, grows to about 6′ and requires little water, can grow in poor soil and is weather resistant. Not only can it be used for Ethenol, but also for cattle feed. Tests show 1,150 gallons (20.9 barrels) can be made per acre per year. Using 2007 numbers, it would require 361,157,895 acres of switchgrass to go on a full Ethenol diet. In 2007, there was 922,095,840 acres of farmland, most of which goes unused.
Randy
12 years ago
OT2 was ight. Ethanol from corn or grain is a scam. Brazil makes their ethanol from sugar cane. Corn ethanol uses more energy than it generates. The best use for corn ethanol is in a shot glass.
Hard Right
12 years ago
Switchgrass also uses more energy from start to finish than it produces according to what I have seen. As for Brazil, they are much smaller than we are making the transition easier for them.
Hard Right, hi, I was reading your comment on my site and an ad caught my attention
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thoses bags as soon as they arrive here, so it means that it expanding the demand, and
i heard how satisfied people who use it are.
it might be of interest for some to start on it or sell it ecetera bye
What I know about switch grass is that it is growing into our ditch and invading my flower gardens in Missouri. There are several farmers in our area that are harvesting it, the nasty part of it is there is about 600 acres of it across the road from our home in Missouri and they have to burn it off every year, not a good time to be down there. They wait for the wind to be blowing in our direction because they use the road as a barrier, very heavy smokes permeates our home while they are doing it.
As far as ethanol, the green king is swearing off of it, admits it was political, this is an opinion piece, but I enjoyed this article:
Gary Jason: Gore swears off ethanol Kool-Aid
Frantically focused special interest groups have a habit of defeating their own goals, and hurting their own self-interest, from an excessive pursuit of it. Labor unions are a classic case in point: They have often been so greedily intent on exacting every concession from the companies they are bargaining with that they put those companies out of business, and their own members out of work.
Environmentalist groups are another classic case of this. They have routinely pushed programs that allegedly benefit the environment but, in reality, don’t. For example, they helped stop nuclear power 30 years ago, which surely exacerbated the very problem – global warming – that so concerns them now. A number of prominent Greens now realize their error.
A recent example of this is found in no less than the green giant himself, Al Gore, a devout environmentalist if ever there was one. He just came out against the U.S. program of subsidizing ethanol. As he told a green-energy conference last week in Athens, “It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol. First-generation ethanol, I think, was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.”More surprising still was Gore’s admission that his original support was based on his presidential ambitions, specifically, his desire for the support of corn farmers in Iowa and Tennessee.
One wonders what took Gore so long to wake up. Subsidized corn-derived ethanol has been a dubious program from the day it was conceived.
The American ethanol program began in 2004, when Congress established a subsidy of 51 cents per gallon for gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol. (In 2008, the subsidy was lowered to 45 cents per gallon). Congress did this in spite of the obvious drawbacks of making ethanol from corn. Ethanol is the alcohol derived from fermenting sugar, and corn is only 40 percent sugar to begin with.
Very rapidly, corn that was being used to feed animals and people was diverted to the ethanol boondoggle. The U.S. ethanol industry now uses over 40 percent of all the corn grown in the United States (fully 15 percent of the corn produced worldwide). One unintended negative consequence was rapidly discovered: shortages in cattle feed, and human food. This was folly incarnate: taking perfectly good food and trying to use it to derive fuel. By 2008 food prices were at record levels.
The ethanol subsidization program was dubious from the start. A major study in 2005 argued that ethanol actually requires 29 percent more fossil-fuel energy to produce than the energy it delivers.
The reason ethanol advocates didn’t realize this is that they didn’t count the unseen cost of the energy required to produce the fuel, such as the energy required to produce the fertilizer used to grow the crops, to power the farm equipment needed to plant, irrigate and harvest the crops, to transport and grind the crops, and to distill the alcohol from the mash.
While many pro-ethanol spokespeople have attacked the study, it still seems clear –now even to Gore – that the input-yield from ethanol is meager, if it is positive at all.
Besides the inefficiency factor, there are other drawbacks to ethanol. It is hard to keep water from mixing with it, making shipment hard. And it can be destructive to the rubber components of an automobile engine.
Welcome to the college of converts, Mr. Vice President. “It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol,” Al Gore told a gathering of clean energy financiers in Greece this week. The benefits of ethanol are “trivial,” he added, but “It’s hard once such a program is put in place to deal with the lobbies that keep it going.”
Thinking of a holiday gift, always remember the advice of Sgt Stryker in the Sands of Iwo Jima.
“Life is tough, but it is a lot tougher is you’re stupid!”
This guy was over the top stupid.
Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer.
The effects of the Tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety…??
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home… I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.
AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.
I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.
Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and Tazer in another.
The directions said that:
a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant;
a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and
a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.
All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5″ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best.
I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side so as to say, ‘ Don ‘t do it stupid,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad.. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…
HOLY CRAP!!! WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. WHAT THE… !!!
I’m pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note:
If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a Tazer,
one note of caution:
There is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor!
A three second burst would be considered conservative!
A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.
My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.
The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.
My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching.
My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.
I had no control over the drooling.
Apparently I had crapped in my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone.
I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair.
I’m still looking for my testicles and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!
PS: My wife can’t stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it!
If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
Skook, just tapped in to get a diversion from work, and gawd you made me laugh! Hope that one’s going into your Skookum’s “tails” and “tribulations” collection of short stories!
SKOOKUM, I never tought I would laugh so hard on your ordeal and painfull recovery,very scary too, hope you recover all your anatomy pieces missing, that would be an awfull ptice to pay for your mischief, I can tell you, now your wife has got you by the … yes,
it’s all your fault too. bye but very funny for the readers.
Randy
12 years ago
Skook,
When I was a kid, I made some extra money by trapping muskrats in the creek that flowed through our farm. I was using the small body traps. To set the trap, you squeeze the wire spring on the one side to open the jaws. I would then put my thumbs into the jaws and pull the jaws open to set the trigger.
It was raining one cold winter day. I had already staked the trap down and released the spring. I put both thumbs into the jaws and something slipped catching both my thimbs below the joint in the trap. Here I was standing in 8″ of water bent over in the rain with both hands caught in a muxkrat trap. I could not compress the spring to release the jaws. I was too far away to ask anyone for help. I eventually pulled the stake out of the mud and compressed the spring between my knees. How embarassing! It was almost as much fun as tasing myself! LOL
SKOOKUM, I was thinking, did the cat ate before the tasing happen?
maybe he ate your ridicules, check it up, bye
Nan G
12 years ago
Get Schooled in Democrat Polling.
Always win! 😆 😀 🙂
Rahm Emamuel is trying to reframe the debate and shift the focus away from the legitimate legal issues surrounding his candidacy. An amusing manifestation of this surfaces here on Rahm’s (curiously named) campaign website, ChicagoForRahm.com.
A “No” response to the poll question “Should Rahm be able to run for mayor?” leads, first, to a page full of reasons to reconsider your objection to his mayoral aspirations.
Apparently having children born in Chicago, the “intent” to live in the city, and seeking to have a “real conversation about better schools, safer streets, and protecting taxpayers in the face of a budget crisis” are the truly critical components of residency.
If, after reading these miscellaneous facts, another “No” vote is cast, an error message appears asking, yet again, for the voter to review the issue and resubmit.
The error cycle continues ad nauseum with all resubmissions.
Have some fun, try it out.
What Rahm intended to do with this data is unclear.
It seems a little too fishy to claim unanimous support of Chicagoans, even for the Dead Fish himself.
FTA:
“Elizabeth Edwards’s cancer has gotten worse and her doctors have recommended against any additional treatment, her family announced Monday.”Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive,” said the statement her family provided to NBC News. “She is resting at home with family and friends.”
Edwards was first diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and learned that the cancer had returned in 2007, as her husband John was preparing his presidential bid……”
I lost my mother-in-law to this same cancer.
It also took a long time and was painful for her.
At the end her bones would break if she sneezed.
You guys all have a sick sense of humor and should seek professional help!
Randy was that a Connibear #110 or standard Victor single spring #0.
Setting the #330 Connibear double spring for beaver, lynx, and wolverine always made me nervous. There was no getting free from that one, of you caught both hands you were going to die there. Both thumbs in a smaller trap is bad enough.
I was going to shoe a couple of draft horses for a rancher in the mountains. I set up my anvil and anvil table and when I turned around the table fell over pinning me to the tail gate. The anvil was still on the table with a plywood pattern locking it in place, just above my knees. I couldn’t lift the tail gate and I couldn’t budge the anvil and the temp was 35 below. I was locked there for twenty minutes or so before the rancher came down to see how I was doing. He was quite old and barely strong enough to lift the anvil. That’s what I called being locked between a rock and a hard place or an anvil and a tailgate. Always be careful turning your back on an anvil; especially, if the ground isn’t level and it is on ice.
Ms Bees my cat is fairly civilized, I don’t she would eat my ridicules. My male Catahoula is another story. He is always starving, ridicules would only be an appetizer for him.
Nan G; hi, I just finish reading your link and It is so funny, realy worth reading till the end, an artist of humor to make that, he flie in with SKOOKUM IN THAT category, thank you.
Randy, , hi, this time mother nature was very angry at you, imagine if the animals would have come and start to eat you while you could not resist, that must have been very painfull as it is
sometimes we wonder how we survive our life is nt it, bye
It takes 1 barrel of oil to get 30 barrels of oil from the Middle East to the pump. then 42 gallons of oil (one barrel) produces 19.3 gallons of gasoline, 9.87 gallons of two types of aviation fuel and 2.31 gallons of other types of energy. So that’s about 75% of a barrel dedicated to fuel. So about 72.6% of a barrel of oil gets turned into energy.
As far as switchgrass goes, the ratio is one unit of energy to get 5 units of energy. That’s seed to pump. So it’s 80% efficent. Corn is 1 to 1 making it non efficent. Also with switchgrass you can grow it and process it right outside a power plant making it even more efficent.
OLD TROOPER 2; HI, if only the people would remember who fought and hurt and spill their blood so they can be still part of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL JEWEL OF THE WORLD, ENVY OF THE ENNEMIES,WHO TRY BEFORE ,NOW, AND IN THE FUTURE AGAIN TO BECOME MASTER OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY OF THE FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL WHO CARE AND LOVE IT;
THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ALL THE AMERICANS TO REMEMBER THE DAY
Randy
12 years ago
A friend sent this to me. I think it sums up many of the conversations we have had at FA.
QUOTE OF THE CENTURY, MAYBE EVEN THE MILLENIUM
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can
understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone
over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier
to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate
willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper
and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails
America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast
confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a
Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a
multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
What? There is no free college. The Dream Act would repeal section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which currently discourages states from providing in-state tuition or other higher education benefits without regard to immigration status.
Unless things have changed, non-nationals can still serve to try to acquire citizenship: why is it necessary to put this in the Dream Act alongside free tuition? Is it window dressing?
I have only caught the headlines from the news, please enlighten us.
“Within a decade or so, North America will almost certainly emerge as the world’s biggest supplier – and exporter – of reasonably cheap energy.”
“With rising production from shale fields, the U.S. surpassed Russia last year to become the world’s largest supplier of natural gas.
“Shale now accounts for 10 per cent of the country’s natural gas production – up from 2 per cent in 1990. Chesapeake’s production from its next Texas project, expected by the end of 2012, will by itself supply the energy equivalent of 500,000 barrels of oil a day.
“For new oil, the U.S. has the huge Green River play that overlaps Colorado and Utah, one of the largest shale oil fields in the world. The EIA reports that the country’s proven reserves of crude rose last year by 9 per cent to 22.3 billion barrels.
“For natural gas, the U.S. has the four largest fields in the world: the Haynesville field in Louisiana (with production up by 77 per cent in 2009); the Fayetteville field in Arkansas and the Marcellus field in Pennsylvania (both with production up by 50 per cent); and the Barnett field in Texas and Oklahoma (with production up by double-digit increases).
“The EIA reports that proven U.S. reserves of natural gas increased last year by 11 per cent to 284 trillion cubic feet – the highest level since 1971.”
So what is Congress and the manchild doing instead of working on becoming energy independent, that tax cut and unemployment benefits extension deal includes $22 billion for ethonol subsidies. Salazar is busy shutting down land to prevent development across the west, no excuse no matter how minor is good enough to stop any kind of production. He and “the boss” are also toying with development in the Gulf, leaving tens of thousands plus unemployed.
Wonder what it is about China that they are able to whip up a deal without the greenie”s harassment, hmmm?
From the Globe and Mail:
“….CNOOC, China’s principal state-owned oil company, was paying Chesapeake Energy $1.08-billion (U.S.) in cash for a one-third interest in the company’s next shale gas play in Texas – and paying 75 per cent of the cost of developing it.
Yes, China was investing in drilling technology: China itself has abundant shale gas reserves. But China had another objective. “Within a decade,” Mr. Forbes said, “the U.S. will be a major natural gas exporter.” And China will be a major importer.
The two countries signed an accord ( the U.S.-China Shale Gas Resource Initiative) last year to reflect this coming U.S. energy reversal. “The United States,” the accord notes, “is a world leader in shale gas technology.” The accord commits the U.S. to deliver this technology to China – and, by implication, requires China to open further its oil and gas industry to Western companies.
– Regence Blue Shield, the large regional plan in the Pacific Northwest recently published an Avastin policy listing the breast cancer treatment as “medically unnecessary.”
– Utah Public Employee Health Plan a small regional payer in Utah has begun to deny all Avastin claims but has not yet bothered to publish a written policy.
– Health Care Service Corporation the parent company of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico and Oklahoma recently published an Avastin policy that restricts use of Avastin.
Skookum
12 years ago
Randy, The Prince of Fools, Europe is laughing their Socialist arses off at that one! but wait, will China bail out their banks, pensions, and unions after the next two years? They better enjoy their laughter for the next two years: Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money, I doubt if China will really be interested in keeping the Euro-Socialist boat afloat. Then it will be our turn to laugh.
The Third World is freezing their arses off in Cancun with temps in the 50’s and they want the US to give them 1.5% of our GDP by 2020. I’m sure it sounds like a great idea to The Prince of Fools, a good way to stimulate the economy with all those Green Jobs and Shovel Ready Projects. Let them Freeze. 😉
Source:
http://blog.heritage.org/?p=47363
Ironically, that is the SAME source your list uses!
Mercatus Center senior research fellow Veronique de Rugy created the chart to the right illustrating Hauser’s Law which Standford University professor Kurt Hauser recapped in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal:
Over the past six decades, tax revenues as a percentage of GDP have averaged just under 19% regardless of the top marginal personal income tax rate.
The top marginal rate has been as high as 92% (1952-53) and as low as 28% (1988-90).
This observation was first reported in an op-ed I wrote for this newspaper in March 1993.
A wit later dubbed this “Hauser’s Law.”
~~~~~~~~~~~
Professor Hauser explains the behavior behind the data shown in these [see link] charts:
Over this period there have been more than 30 major changes in the tax code including personal income tax rates, corporate tax rates, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, investment tax credits, depreciation schedules, Social Security taxes, and the number of tax brackets among others.
Yet during this period, federal government tax collections as a share of GDP have moved within a narrow band of just under 19% of GDP.
Why?
Higher taxes discourage the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship.
When tax rates are raised, taxpayers are encouraged to shift, hide and underreport income.
Taxpayers divert their effort from pro-growth productive investments to seeking tax shelters, tax havens and tax exempt investments.
This behavior tends to dampen economic growth and job creation.
Lower taxes increase the incentives to work, produce, save and invest, thereby encouraging capital formation and jobs.
Taxpayers have less incentive to shelter and shift income.
……
Just to pile on @Nan G’s comment about Obama, praising Spain’s alternative energy plan financed by taxpayers, I will refer back to the post I did January 2010 and the economic study that shows Spain’s endeavors are a fiscal nightmare for both the cost of energy, and for business health.
Quote Of The Week:
“Frankly, I don’t know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I’m not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine , even comes close.
When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington , we’re number one. There’s no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on ‘Macbeth’. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don’t know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.”
–columnist Burt Prelutsky, LA Times
Oh my, WaPo is defending President Bush and factchecking the Plame movie, Fair Game:
My favorite part of the fisking:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120306298.html
How sweet it is! 😉
Just to give “equal time”… not that I’m a convinced supporter, mind you… but Larry Johnson, over at No Quarters, is railing against the machine about this WaPo article. But then, Larry was always a rah rah team for the Wilsons.
Goes to show, we have some things in common with many on the opposite aisle, but still run up against some brick walls. The Plame Blame Game era is one of those. However, when it comes to Obama, we’re all on the same page.
BTW… INRE Billy Bob’s inadequacy with charts, pictures and things, we’ll give him a leg up… like some help with arrows and time stamps or Presidential eras?.
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What were you saying, Billy Bob? With everything going *for* him, Clinton’s tax policies were a revenue loser.
Despite having both the dot.com bubble burst handed to him, combined with the fiscal hit from 911, the Bush tax cuts started improving the revenue stream.
Get your cash back for your education, dude. You’re an embarrassment….
Missy: There was a lot of yellow cake found in Iraq. We sold it to the Canadians and used the money for Iraq reconstruction projects. Of course, there was no potential for WMD in Iraq! LOL
I read one of L Johnson’s threads a couple of weeks ago, can’t remember what it was about, but his readers were really lambasting him. Even his regulars aren’t always on the same page.
@ Randy…or the VX gas compounds for filling Arty rounds. 😉
The Wilsons were quite the couple. Pushing paper at Langley does not an ‘Operative’ make.
A lot of smoke & noise but a dud round.
Frank Rich/NYTimes thinks Obama has Stockholm Syndrome from being held hostage by those 42 Senate Republicans. Just wait til members of the House are sworn, imagine the dire diagnosis. 😉
The comments following his column are hilarious!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/opinion/05rich.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
Jeffrey Goldberg provides a few laughs on the T&A in the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/7057/1/
@Mata #36
Not to mention the grounding of ALL aircraft.
But certain morons do not, will not and/or cannot remember 9-11 and its effects.
Happy Sunday to you!
Here’s another TSA beauty
I still am unable to embed a video. Argh
[Dr. John, On the YouTube page click the “Embed” button to get your embed code.
Copy/paste it into your comment box. Adjust your width to “480” and your height to “385” (You have to do this on the first line of the code and the last.
Now you’re ready to submit your comment with your embedded video. – Aye]
As much as many prognosticators and so-called experts are saying President Obama is going to have a tough time getting re-elected, the reality of the situation is that President Obama will get re-elected against almost any potential GOP challenger.
However, one candidate cannot be over-looked. If we learned anything from 2008, we should’ve learned that organization and social media skills are paramount to a campaign. No one is actually going to “come out of nowhere”. To become the most powerful person in the world, you have to build quite an organization. That’s why only one person has a chance to beat President Obama in 2012.
@Skookum:
That was funny, two bottles of saline because he has two eyes, sheesh, they make a wine bra to wear to PTA meetings? The ending was the best. Thanks for sharing!
Didn’t work for this attempt either, but thanks for trying to help me, Aye.
Are you seeing the embed code in the comment box before you click send?
Missy, I cracked up on that one, but then I realized these are the nitwits who are supposed to keep us safe. Aye Chihuahua, muchas Apaches! It makes you wonder if they have an exclusive contract with Bin Laden for stupid Terrorists.
A Canadian Indian told me a racist joke.
He asked me, “what do you call a native terrorist?”
I told him, I had no idea.
He said, “Osama been drinkin.”
He thought it was way funnier than I did.
I am the last one to hold it against someone for laughing at their own joke. Sometimes the joke teller is the only one who can appreciate the humor of a good joke.
SKOOKUM, HI, NICE TO SEE YOU BACK, I laught at the INDIAN’s joke too, bye
Yes it is there. I changed the parameters and upon sending it vanishes.
I have another embed code inserted above this line. Width is 480 and height is 385.
Ethenol was and is not a scam. Brazil had at one point 95% of it’s vehicles on ethanol and now 80% of it’s light vehicle sales comprise of ethenol vehicles. The change was a result from an ethanol shortage and low oil prices in the 1980s with high oil prices this decade. 20% of its ethenol is exported. The production price per gallon is $1.10. 5% of it’s agriculture is dedicated to Ethenol.
The U.S. does have a crop it can use for Ethenol and that’s switchgrass. Switchgrass can be harvested 3 times a year, grows to about 6′ and requires little water, can grow in poor soil and is weather resistant. Not only can it be used for Ethenol, but also for cattle feed. Tests show 1,150 gallons (20.9 barrels) can be made per acre per year. Using 2007 numbers, it would require 361,157,895 acres of switchgrass to go on a full Ethenol diet. In 2007, there was 922,095,840 acres of farmland, most of which goes unused.
OT2 was ight. Ethanol from corn or grain is a scam. Brazil makes their ethanol from sugar cane. Corn ethanol uses more energy than it generates. The best use for corn ethanol is in a shot glass.
Switchgrass also uses more energy from start to finish than it produces according to what I have seen. As for Brazil, they are much smaller than we are making the transition easier for them.
Ethanol is a waste of time and resources.
Hard Right, hi, I was reading your comment on my site and an ad caught my attention
It’s called’BIOMASSENERGY PLANTS PLANT IN US OR CANADA MISCANTHUS 4
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what caught my attention most is the pellets, here there is a big demand for pellets because many people use it to heat and last years the company from QUEBEC WHO STARTED THAT A WHILE BEFORE COULD NOT MEET THE DEMAND for a while people where scrambling to buy
thoses bags as soon as they arrive here, so it means that it expanding the demand, and
i heard how satisfied people who use it are.
it might be of interest for some to start on it or sell it ecetera bye
What I know about switch grass is that it is growing into our ditch and invading my flower gardens in Missouri. There are several farmers in our area that are harvesting it, the nasty part of it is there is about 600 acres of it across the road from our home in Missouri and they have to burn it off every year, not a good time to be down there. They wait for the wind to be blowing in our direction because they use the road as a barrier, very heavy smokes permeates our home while they are doing it.
As far as ethanol, the green king is swearing off of it, admits it was political, this is an opinion piece, but I enjoyed this article:
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/ethanol-278591-corn-gore.html
WSJ, he’s quoted again:
More:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572404575634753486416076.html
Thinking of a holiday gift, always remember the advice of Sgt Stryker in the Sands of Iwo Jima.
“Life is tough, but it is a lot tougher is you’re stupid!”
This guy was over the top stupid.
Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer.
The effects of the Tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety…??
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home… I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I’d get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.
AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.
I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.
Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and Tazer in another.
The directions said that:
a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant;
a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and
a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.
All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5″ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best.
I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side so as to say, ‘ Don ‘t do it stupid,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad.. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…
HOLY CRAP!!! WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. WHAT THE… !!!
I’m pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note:
If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a Tazer,
one note of caution:
There is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor!
A three second burst would be considered conservative!
A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.
My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.
The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.
My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching.
My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.
I had no control over the drooling.
Apparently I had crapped in my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone.
I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair.
I’m still looking for my testicles and I’m offering a significant reward for their safe return!
PS: My wife can’t stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it!
If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!!
Skook, just tapped in to get a diversion from work, and gawd you made me laugh! Hope that one’s going into your Skookum’s “tails” and “tribulations” collection of short stories!
SKOOKUM, I never tought I would laugh so hard on your ordeal and painfull recovery,very scary too, hope you recover all your anatomy pieces missing, that would be an awfull ptice to pay for your mischief, I can tell you, now your wife has got you by the … yes,
it’s all your fault too. bye but very funny for the readers.
Skook,
When I was a kid, I made some extra money by trapping muskrats in the creek that flowed through our farm. I was using the small body traps. To set the trap, you squeeze the wire spring on the one side to open the jaws. I would then put my thumbs into the jaws and pull the jaws open to set the trigger.
It was raining one cold winter day. I had already staked the trap down and released the spring. I put both thumbs into the jaws and something slipped catching both my thimbs below the joint in the trap. Here I was standing in 8″ of water bent over in the rain with both hands caught in a muxkrat trap. I could not compress the spring to release the jaws. I was too far away to ask anyone for help. I eventually pulled the stake out of the mud and compressed the spring between my knees. How embarassing! It was almost as much fun as tasing myself! LOL
SKOOKUM, I was thinking, did the cat ate before the tasing happen?
maybe he ate your ridicules, check it up, bye
Get Schooled in Democrat Polling.
Always win! 😆 😀 🙂
Rahm Emamuel is trying to reframe the debate and shift the focus away from the legitimate legal issues surrounding his candidacy. An amusing manifestation of this surfaces here on Rahm’s (curiously named) campaign website, ChicagoForRahm.com.
http://www.chicagoforrahm.com/dev-action/residency-vote/vote-1/?sc=google_display_res_news_sites
A “No” response to the poll question “Should Rahm be able to run for mayor?” leads, first, to a page full of reasons to reconsider your objection to his mayoral aspirations.
Apparently having children born in Chicago, the “intent” to live in the city, and seeking to have a “real conversation about better schools, safer streets, and protecting taxpayers in the face of a budget crisis” are the truly critical components of residency.
If, after reading these miscellaneous facts, another “No” vote is cast, an error message appears asking, yet again, for the voter to review the issue and resubmit.
The error cycle continues ad nauseum with all resubmissions.
Have some fun, try it out.
What Rahm intended to do with this data is unclear.
It seems a little too fishy to claim unanimous support of Chicagoans, even for the Dead Fish himself.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/rahmbos_cantlose_online_poll.html
Skookum, can you make a parable out of the Motorcyclist and the Squirrel of Death story?
One on-line version (from 2004) is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1060580/posts
Prayers should go out.
Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer has taken a turn for the worse.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40537053/ns/today-today_people/
FTA:
“Elizabeth Edwards’s cancer has gotten worse and her doctors have recommended against any additional treatment, her family announced Monday.”Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive,” said the statement her family provided to NBC News. “She is resting at home with family and friends.”
Edwards was first diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and learned that the cancer had returned in 2007, as her husband John was preparing his presidential bid……”
I lost my mother-in-law to this same cancer.
It also took a long time and was painful for her.
At the end her bones would break if she sneezed.
Prayers for Elizabeth.
NAN, MAY GOD SPARE HER FROM ANYMORE PAIN, SO SORRY.
You guys all have a sick sense of humor and should seek professional help!
Randy was that a Connibear #110 or standard Victor single spring #0.
Setting the #330 Connibear double spring for beaver, lynx, and wolverine always made me nervous. There was no getting free from that one, of you caught both hands you were going to die there. Both thumbs in a smaller trap is bad enough.
I was going to shoe a couple of draft horses for a rancher in the mountains. I set up my anvil and anvil table and when I turned around the table fell over pinning me to the tail gate. The anvil was still on the table with a plywood pattern locking it in place, just above my knees. I couldn’t lift the tail gate and I couldn’t budge the anvil and the temp was 35 below. I was locked there for twenty minutes or so before the rancher came down to see how I was doing. He was quite old and barely strong enough to lift the anvil. That’s what I called being locked between a rock and a hard place or an anvil and a tailgate. Always be careful turning your back on an anvil; especially, if the ground isn’t level and it is on ice.
Ms Bees my cat is fairly civilized, I don’t she would eat my ridicules. My male Catahoula is another story. He is always starving, ridicules would only be an appetizer for him.
Nan G; hi, I just finish reading your link and It is so funny, realy worth reading till the end, an artist of humor to make that, he flie in with SKOOKUM IN THAT category, thank you.
Randy, , hi, this time mother nature was very angry at you, imagine if the animals would have come and start to eat you while you could not resist, that must have been very painfull as it is
sometimes we wonder how we survive our life is nt it, bye
I think I am beginning to understand Hip Hop
A Day That Will Live In Infamy…
7 DECEMBER 1941
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnOtWm5OrM&feature=related
A DAY of REMEMBRANCE
It takes 1 barrel of oil to get 30 barrels of oil from the Middle East to the pump. then 42 gallons of oil (one barrel) produces 19.3 gallons of gasoline, 9.87 gallons of two types of aviation fuel and 2.31 gallons of other types of energy. So that’s about 75% of a barrel dedicated to fuel. So about 72.6% of a barrel of oil gets turned into energy.
As far as switchgrass goes, the ratio is one unit of energy to get 5 units of energy. That’s seed to pump. So it’s 80% efficent. Corn is 1 to 1 making it non efficent. Also with switchgrass you can grow it and process it right outside a power plant making it even more efficent.
OLD TROOPER 2; HI, if only the people would remember who fought and hurt and spill their blood so they can be still part of AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL JEWEL OF THE WORLD, ENVY OF THE ENNEMIES,WHO TRY BEFORE ,NOW, AND IN THE FUTURE AGAIN TO BECOME MASTER OF THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY OF THE FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL WHO CARE AND LOVE IT;
THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ALL THE AMERICANS TO REMEMBER THE DAY
A friend sent this to me. I think it sums up many of the conversations we have had at FA.
QUOTE OF THE CENTURY, MAYBE EVEN THE MILLENIUM
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can
understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone
over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry
capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier
to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate
willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper
and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails
America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast
confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a
Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a
multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Aqua:
Unless things have changed, non-nationals can still serve to try to acquire citizenship: why is it necessary to put this in the Dream Act alongside free tuition? Is it window dressing?
I have only caught the headlines from the news, please enlighten us.
Toronto’s Globe and Mail quotes a UN report:
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/another-publication-discovers-us-verge-energy-independence-withou#ixzz17dZH5Og
So what is Congress and the manchild doing instead of working on becoming energy independent, that tax cut and unemployment benefits extension deal includes $22 billion for ethonol subsidies. Salazar is busy shutting down land to prevent development across the west, no excuse no matter how minor is good enough to stop any kind of production. He and “the boss” are also toying with development in the Gulf, leaving tens of thousands plus unemployed.
Wonder what it is about China that they are able to whip up a deal without the greenie”s
harassment, hmmm?
From the Globe and Mail:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/neil-reynolds/north-america-the-new-energy-kingdom/article1828896/
Oh, joy!
NOT!!!!
Medical Rationing – Death Panels – Whatever you want to call it.
Some medical insurance providers are already rationing based on what ObamaCare will do later!
– Regence Blue Shield, the large regional plan in the Pacific Northwest recently published an Avastin policy listing the breast cancer treatment as “medically unnecessary.”
– Utah Public Employee Health Plan a small regional payer in Utah has begun to deny all Avastin claims but has not yet bothered to publish a written policy.
– Health Care Service Corporation the parent company of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico and Oklahoma recently published an Avastin policy that restricts use of Avastin.
Randy, The Prince of Fools, Europe is laughing their Socialist arses off at that one! but wait, will China bail out their banks, pensions, and unions after the next two years? They better enjoy their laughter for the next two years: Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money, I doubt if China will really be interested in keeping the Euro-Socialist boat afloat. Then it will be our turn to laugh.
The Third World is freezing their arses off in Cancun with temps in the 50’s and they want the US to give them 1.5% of our GDP by 2020. I’m sure it sounds like a great idea to The Prince of Fools, a good way to stimulate the economy with all those Green Jobs and Shovel Ready Projects. Let them Freeze. 😉