Archive for April, 2009

Federalism Amendments!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 (07:46)

I am not a Constitutional Law scholar, but this looks pretty good to me, and very much within the spirit of the Tea Parties:
http://federalismamendment.com/
You can grab the amendment document here:
http://federalismamendment.com/The_Bill_of_Federalism.pdf
These look to be the kind of smaller-government Federal modifications, and ways to more-properly restrict the overreaching Federal government. A short run-down:

Limits the Federal use [...]

Ruinous TARP

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 (07:21)

From PowerLine:
On April 21, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009–”SIGTARP”–submitted his quarterly report to Congress on his office’s activities in relation to the TARP program. The report is a disquieting document that should be read by every American–certainly be every taxpayer.
The Inspector General’s report documents the stunning and [...]

Why Taxes May Double

Saturday, April 18th, 2009 (13:09)

From http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/david-walker-why-.html:
Unless we begin to get our fiscal house in order, there’s simply no other way to handle our ever-mounting debt burdens except by doubling taxes over time. Otherwise, our growing commitments for Medicare and Social Security benefits will gradually squeeze out spending on other vital programs such as education, research and development, and infrastructure.
Another [...]

Manhattan Project

Friday, April 17th, 2009 (07:26)

My buddy Benito has a nice writeup of his Manhattan Project, in which I have been a subject. The things we do for science. ;-)

Memphis Tea Party: Success!

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 (20:29)

I was part of the organizing committee for yesterday’s Tax Day Tea Party here in Memphis. That sounds kind of formal; it was just a bunch of folks who found each other on the internet and (with some amount of arguing, mostly from me ;-) got an event put together. Talk about an [...]

Solar_Mind_Read

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 (06:45)

Solar has a new class for user interaction: Solar_Mind_Read. Read on for more!