Tag: taxes

  • Playing to his base

    Every once in a while someone does something that makes you wonder if they think you’re stupid. You’ve probably felt what I’m talking about a time or two. They give you that look. They slight you in some way. Or they sell you on a tax cut in an election year, to hide the fact…

  • Much is required

    I don’t normally write about national issues, but this fiscal cliff thing is one particularly dumb set of concern trolling on the part of the national media so it seems like a prime target. Its dumb because as the Wonk Blog explains this is anything but a cliff. It’s a slope at best. A slope…

  • Grover Being Grover

    I watched the interview on 60 Minutes last night. while the Grover to the left may not be the Grover that was the topic of this interview, I think its fair to say that the ideology espoused by Norquist is just as comically reduced as the archetype played by the Grover on Sesame Street…a character…