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Podcast: Liberty Candidate - John Dennis (California’s 8th District)
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 10:52am | posted by United Liberty Staff
Continuing our “Liberty Candidate Series” of interviews, Jason and Brett talk with John Dennis, discussing his opponent, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, liberty in San Francisco, and his candidacy. Dennis is a “Pro-Liberty” Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s 8th Congressional District.
This special edition podcast is the fifth in a series devoted to showcasing liberty candidates nationwide. Dennis talks about his liberty-focused campaign against the Speaker of the House in California.
You can download the podcast here. The introduction music is “Silence is Violence” by the always lovely Aimee Allen.
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Cutting Taxes = Increasing Revenue
Tue, 03/03/2009 - 7:22am | posted by Matt Chancey
Around 150 BC, Emperor Ching Ti came to power in China and immediately faced a major problem: his treasury was empty.
Taxes were very high, but no real revenue was coming in. That’s because the system of taxes at that time was an early form of income tax that centered on the government taking a large percentage of a farmer’s crops.
So Ching Ti did something bold and innovative: he cut taxes.
Overnight, taxes went from over 50% down to about 3%. Farmers, who had fled to the hills to escape draconian tax rates, now came home and began farming again. To make a long story short, Ching Ti’s greatest problem while governing was trying to keep all the grain in his barns from spoiling.
It seems that ancient Chinese history is good for more than just cutesy script on a fortune cookie.
Pelosi Slams Another Nail Into The Coffin Of ObamaCare
Thu, 01/21/2010 - 5:17pm | posted by Doug Mataconis
The Speaker of the House says she doesn’t have the votes to pass the Senate health care bill:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the Senate will have to amend its version of a health-care reform bill before her chamber can pass it.
“I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi told reporters after a morning meeting with her caucus. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time.”
Pelosi has been struggling for days to sell the Senate legislation to reluctant Democrats in order to get a health-care bill to the president’s desk quickly. But moderates in her caucus have raised doubts about forging ahead without bipartisan support — a challenge as the midterm election approaches — while liberals rejected the Senate bill as not going far enough.
Pelosi described House Democrats as vehemently opposed to several provisions in the Senate legislation, including one that benefits only Nebraska’s Medicaid system — a deal to win the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) — and a tax plan on expensive health-care benefits.
“There are certain things the members simply cannot support,” she said.
Aides said afterward that the best option would be for the Senate to pass a bill that fixes those and other issues under fast-track rules that require a simple majority. But the Senate has not agreed to do so.
And, of course, Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday makes it pretty unlikely that they’ll be able to do so.
While I’m sure many will try to spin Pelosi’s words, and that it will still be some time before the Obama White House gives up the ghost on this debacle, as Josh Marshall points out the meaning of Pelosi’s words are clear:
