This Week’s Sign of the Economic Apocalypse
Posted in Politics on Apr 27th, 2011
Canada’s Liberal Party is running on a National Food Policy Platform. What a pretty barn. How many of you knew an election was happening up there?
Daily Archive for April 27th, 2011
Fun Facts to Know and Tell: Gasoline Profits Edition
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2011
From Mark Perry: Each gallon of gas sold in 2010 generated … two … cents … of profits for Exxon. Each gallon of gas sold in 2010 generated … forty-eight cents … of tax “revenues” for government. By the way, this does not include the tax … on the profits of the oil companies. I’d […]
Me in the “Free” State
Posted in Economic Illiteracy on Apr 27th, 2011
I love how they mangle article titles. It was supposed to be “Economic Illiteracy.” The comments are great.
President Obama has increasingly reminded us that tax rates were higher during the Clinton presidency and had little negative impact on the economy. For example, today’s top marginal federal income tax rate is 35% while under Clinton it was 39.6%. I’d also remind you that many more poor people paid federal income taxes under Clinton […]
