What would a joint effort by the CNBC and Bravo TV networks look like?

Why “Government Intelligence” is one of the most often encountered oxymorons. Whenever a government program has been proven to be a failure, the response is to make it bigger and spend even more money on it. It’s S.O.P. for the education system and is no different than someone driving in the wrong direction just going twice as fast. We end up blowing a lot more money and being even further off course.

Of course, they don’t do the stealing themselves. They rely on their hitmen at the IRS to do the dirty work of supplying them with plenty of money to spend on buying votes from people who have no respect for the Constitution.

Tax breaks for saving stir debate. Critics say only the wealthy benefit. – Hate the rich class warfare never goes out of style in this country.

Republicans Indulging in Pork Along With Power

Man Cashes Penny Stash For $10,060 – A drastic style of the slow and steady savings strategy; 37 buckets full. As ridiculous as it sounds, he has a lot more to show for his “investment” efforts than most people who bought overpriced dot-com stocks.

Under Bush, spending soars – Very inconsistent. On one hand, Bush recognizes the power of letting people keep and spend more of their own money. On the other hand, he is enlarging the size and scope of government beyond even what the previous administrations did.

Taxes governed by people’s will – Supposedly, Governor Arnold will raise taxes if enough people ask him to. It won’t be hard to get a majority of people to “demand” higher taxes on the heavily despised evil rich. Let’s hope that Arnold has enough sense, in spite of input from from his Marxist advisors (Warren Buffett), to see that such an approach would be more of what already created the massive outflow of tax refugees. If he has any hope of attracting people to return to the PRC, he has to reduce the punitive taxation of success and not make it worse, even if the lefty media claim that is what the people want.

Treasury Renews Campaign for Tax-Free Savings Accounts – This kind of thing makes sense for various capitalist and fairness reasons. It’s also another perfect example of how fluid the tax environment is. Long range tax and financial planning has more unknown future variables to contend with than the weather has. However, it’s still very premature to count on these proposed breaks becoming real. They still have to survive the guaranteed onslaught of “tax breaks for the rich” propaganda from the lefties who want us all to believe that only evil rich people can afford to put anything into savings accounts.

One of the reasons I’ve never been a big fan of investing one’s life savings in the stock market. It can’t be good for a person’s health to have to wonder day by day whether you are broke or doing well.

2 Sides Differ on Size of Government

Republicans mock Gov. Warner’s sales tax plan

$20,000 per Household: The Highest Level of Federal Spending Since World War II

IRS auditors visit the NEA – finally

GOP Divided Over Pushing Reform of Social Security

The high cost of busybodies: part IV – More on the idiocy of our rulers meddling in the forces of the free market. Such efforts to thwart the natural market forces are no more successful here in the USA than they have been in more openly Communist societies around the world.

Congress ‘Piles on the Pork,’ Group Says

Fight the Tax Abusers – With plenty of very simple and very legal methods of minimizing taxes, you won’t find me defending the big CPA firms for selling scam tax shelter packages to their gullible clients.