Warren Buffett, the scold . . .

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sanely Insane

Warren Buffett, the billionaire many times over who demands that “the rich” not be “coddled” famously claims that neither he, nor any investor he knows has ever made a decision about where to put their capital based on tax considerations.  It might be easy to dismiss his claim as utter Bovine Scatology, but it may be true and says much about his cloistered life and how few friends he has – deservedly.

In this article (Pay taxes? Nyet!) are just a few who go to the extreme of renouncing their citizenship to be rid of the Internal Revenue Service. With a bit more imagination than has Mr. Buffett one can fairly expect that many more do something less extreme and fashion their choices based on lowering tax consequences or even (Horrors!) cheat!

Mr. Buffett gains attention from a fawning press and an intellectually incurious President, demanding that “millionaires and billionaires” pay a higher tax than “his secretary” and at the same time he refuses to pay hundreds of billions in back taxes. Like our President, when all the posturing is done, he pays less still than his faithful assistant.

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Brief . . .and irrefutable . . .

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In his commentary in the Wall Street Journal, Grover Norquist briefs (Norquist on the Income Tax) the history of the ever escalating “Income Tax.” Most interesting is that “progressive” politicians, liberals and the other mentally challenged, have yet to appreciate the regressivity of their schemes. Or do they?

Their goal is to amass power and most important, destiny.  At some point, even liberals should appreciate that “progressive” answers don’t address the questions….

Simply put, “liberal” policies unequivocally burden the intended beneficiaries, the common man . . . and woman. . .  Liberals hate the 99% and love the 1%.

We should embrace this brilliance! Tax the “poor” at 90% and the “rich” at 10 % and no one can afford to be poor! We can end poverty as they know it . . .

 

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Yes it’s still early . . .

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Sanely Insane

But, it’s getting later. Rasmussen in the latest generic congressional poll (Republican over Democrat lead grows) is showing a fairly dramatic Republican advantage. Traditionally the Democrats enjoy early advantages that usually evaporate as the election nears. This lead of 10 points so early, and supportive of consistent leads for weeks, must strike the fear of God – scratch that and keep religion out of politics – the fear of loss into the impossibly named Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, ChairMAN of the Democratic Party . . . which is anything but Democratic.

Every election is the “most important” one to date. This one may be the most fun!

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Axelrod makes the case . . . for Romney!

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace filleted David Axelrod who may have made the best and most succinct case against his boss to date arguing that the choice distills down to one:

between [an] economy that produces a growing middle class and gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we are on, and everybody else is running faster and faster just to keep pace . . .

Mitt Romney couldn’t have said it better. In fact, he won’t. And, therein lies a problem.

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Obamacare, the cost . . .

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Sanely Insane

A good deal has been written since Charles Blahous, a Medicare ans Social Security Public trustee appointed by the President produced a paper projecting vastly fewer savings and dramatically higher costs as the Affordable Care act is implemented. The ever brilliant Michael Barone provides a fine brief (Ouch! Decade of Obamacare Will Cost $1,160 billion) in which he explains the simple gimmicks used to disguise the costs and more importantly, why the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis is fatally flawed, albeit, unintentionally.

The arguments against Blahous range from the diminutive Ezra Klein from The Washington Post whining that CBO is the “official” score-keeper and shall not be questioned to Patrick Pexton, also of The Post, whining that Jonathan Chait of New York magazine and Paul Krugman of the New York Times agree that the CBO shall not be challenged . . . even after a key component and supposed cost-saver was abandoned by health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

As the presidential campaigns gain speed, listen and chuckle as the President’s defenders admonish you to deny what you see, deny what you hear, deny reality. All will be good.

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Legalize

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Sanely Insane

George Will today addresses responsibly, the question of whether “hard” drugs (no, that doesn’t include Viagra or Cialis) should be made legal. (Should the U.S. legalize hard drugs?)

Given the enormous costs of the “War on Drugs” (we “war” against most everything, don’t we?) and the spectacular failure to seriously stem the flow – while at the same time, making criminal cartels fabulously wealthy murdering machines – it’s about time for sensible legalization.  Mr. Will notes too that the cynical “legalization” of Marijuana erodes respect for the law, much like Eric Holder’s failure to prosecute Black criminals causes one pause.

Finally, Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley favored relaxation of drugs laws long ago.  Progressives will no doubt abhor legalization on the grounds that it will discriminate against the poor who lack state issued identification necessary to get high. Ironically, they can still vote, early and often.

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Even Eric Holder will be offended . . . or not . . .

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Sanely Insane

This is, in a word, DISGUSTING! (Do not view this with children present)  It doesn’t rise to the legal definition of child abuse, but, the producers, writers, and executives at HBO and its parent, Time Warner should be punished.  Perhaps they should be required to “explain” the humor here to their own children and each others.  The advertisers who underwrite this bilge should be exposed . . . so to speak!

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Eric Holder, racist?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In his most naked display of bad judgment to date, judgment that calls into question again his commitment to the application of law in a uniform, impartial manner, unencumbered by prejudice based on race, color, creed, or political influence, Attorney General Holder of all of the United States, praised race hustler Al Sharpton today. (Holder praises Sharpton)

Sharpton, whose career began with a destructive hoax, charged three men, one a New York police officer with vicious crimes including rape . . . which didn’t happen, the Tawana Brawley farce.  He then impugned a New York state prosecutor, Steven Pagones who later sued and won a defamation suit against Sharpton. The judgment handed down remains unpaid. Sharpton later fomented a race riot in Harlem at Freddy’s Fashion Mart resulting in arson and the deaths of seven innocent citizens.

Put on your tin-foil cap and imagine a Republican Attorney General embracing a despicable “man” of Sharpton’s low character . . .  And, President Obama maintains his silence. Disgraceful.

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The Main Stream Media continues to erode

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Sanely Insane

In an all too common example of main stream “journalism,” Robert Barnes, the court “reporter” for The Washington Post aided by Scott Clement, breathlessly tell us that, “More Americans think Supreme Court justices will be acting mainly on their partisan political views than on a neutral reading of the law when they decide the constitutionality of President Obama’s health-care law, according to a new.”  (WaPo Obamacare Poll)

In fact, the real news in the poll is that Obamacare is less popular now than when the Court heard the arguments, in spite of the main stream media apparatchiks’ unrelenting assault on the truth. The MSM has advanced every conceivable argument, rational and not, to suggest that it’s nearly impossible for the President to lose but for the pesky right-wing Constitutionalists who subscribe to the notion that the Owner’s Manual means what it says.

So as to not appear completely intellectually corrupt, Messrs. Barnes and Clement begrudgingly note that a meager “39 percent of Americans support the health-care overhaul . . . the lowest percentage since the Post-ABC poll began asking the question.”(Emphasis added.)

Most compelling, and noted as an afterthought is this blockbuster, “Only about half of Democrats want the entire law upheld. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans want all of it thrown out.“

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Eric Holder is reportedly a smart fellow . . .

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Sanely Insane

When Eric Holder and his uncuddly puppy, Thomas Perez, challenge voter I.D. laws, in contravention of the Supreme Court decision in the Indiana voting rights case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, Mr. Holder looks less committed to justice than he is committed to “progressive” politics and frankly, he looks stupid.  That’s not surprising, but, it must cause a hemorrhoidal flare when he watches (James O’Keefe strikes a blow for liberty, again) in his latest sting video which eviscerates the notion that “there’s nothing to see here. Move along now…”

Either Eric Holder is politically smart and intellectually corrupt, or he’s intellectually stupid and politically corrupt. Either way, he’s the wrong man for an important job, any job.

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