Thursday, January 31, 2013
Bought for £1, the mysterious tower that inspired JRR Tolkien
Bought for £1, the mysterious tower that inspired JRR Tolkien</strong> <span class="small">(Charity needs £1m to turn Perrott's Folly, said to have inspired author, into centre for Birmingham community)
via megalextoria.com
Rand Paul: “Over-The-Top Aggressive Foreign Policy” Isn't Conservative
Paul is due to give a foreign policy speech at the Heritage Foundation next week, where he “will discuss his vision of a foreign policy that respects the plain language of our Constitution, the legal powers of Congress and the proper duties of the Commander-in-Chief.”
“Senator Paul will map out a foreign policy vision in which America can better avoid never-ending conflict and protracted commitments,” according to Heritage’s copy.
via megalextoria.com
What Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun?
According to the FBI, you are much more likely to be killed by hammer than the rifles that are proposed in the ban and nearly 59.8% of all shootings in America are actually suicides. Even if we just look at mass shootings, we can see that when there are individuals allowed to carry firearms the number of deaths goes down. The average number of people killed in mass shootings when stopped by police is 14.29. While the average number of people killed in a mass shooting when stopped by a civilian is 2.33.
via megalextoria.com
No, Mr. Vice President. Cops Today Are Not 'Outgunned.'
I suppose it’s no surprise that Vice President Joe Biden was put in charge of President Obama’s gun control initiative. Biden has always been an innovator when it comes to finding new reasons to put people in prison, and for longer periods of time.
via megalextoria.com
UNION LEADERS’ EPIPHANY LEAVES THEM SCRAMBLING: WAIT, OBAMACARE IS GOING TO DRIVE UP OUR COSTS?
Yes, according to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, union leaders (i.e. the same people who campaigned tirelessly in favor of universal healthcare) are trying to figure out a way to avoid paying for the costs associated with “Obamacare. ;
via megalextoria.com
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Advertisement for The Colonel's Bequest
via pinterest.com
Advertisement for The Colonel's Bequest by Sierra for the Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS from the Autumn 1989 issue of Sierra New Magazine
Emerald Rose - The Salamanca / The Sailor's Bonnet - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose @ Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
IF ‘ASSAULT WEAPONS’ ARE BAD…WHY DOES DHS WANT TO BUY 7,000 OF THEM FOR ‘PERSONAL DEFENSE’?
Critics of such a ban on semi-automatic rifles are already arguing that the government is showing its hypocrisy by essentially saying they are good “personal defense” for them, but not for American citizens. When civilians own semi-automatic rifles, they somehow become “assault weapons.
via megalextoria.com
BACKFIRE: Seattle Gun Buyback Turns Into Gun Show; Collectors Waved 'Wads of Cash' at Those in Line
While thousands of Seattle residents lined up for hours to trade their handguns, rifles and family heirlooms away in exchange for up to $200 in gift cards as part of the city's latest gun buyback program, gun collectors who have seen prices for assault rifles and firearms accessories almost triple since November took advantage of a huge opportunity.
Police stood in awe as gun enthusiasts and collectors waved wads of cash for the guns being held by those standing in line for the buyback program.
via megalextoria.com
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Donkey Kong, Star Hawk, Dungons & Dragons
via pinterest.com
Reviews of Coleco's Donkey Kong table top and hand held versions of Dungeons & Dragons and Starhawk from Mattel. From the November 1982 issue of Electronic Fun
Emerald Rose - Chocolate Frog - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Chocolate Frog' at Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
Economic Solution: Senior Obama Official: "We Are Going to Kill the Dollar"
When I asked a senior member of the Obama administration last week, 'How are we going to grow exports if we won't allow nominal wage deflation?'
He says, 'we're just going to kill the dollar.'
via megalextoria.com
Study: Global Warming Less Extreme Than Feared
Uncertainties about the overall results of feedback mechanisms make it very difficult to predict just how much of the rise in Earth's mean surface temperature is due to manmade emissions. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the climate sensitivity to doubled atmospheric CO2 levels is probably between 2°C and 4.5°C, with the most probable being 3°C of warming.
In the Norwegian project, however, researchers have arrived at an estimate of 1.9°C as the most likely level of warming.
via megalextoria.com
Army drill scares residents on Houston's south side
The U.S. Army along with other agencies took over the old Carnegie Vanguard High School near Scott and Airport. There were armed men in fatigues, plenty of weapons and what many thought were real live rounds.
via megalextoria.com
Monday, January 28, 2013
Emerald Rose - Vampire Girl From The Planet Orn - Megacon 2012
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performing 'Vampire Girl From The Planet Orn' at Megacon 2012. (2012-02-18)
Megalextoria: News and Politics » FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
via megalextoria.com
Bipartisan group of 8 senators reaches deal on immigration changes
The eight senators expected to endorse the new principles are Democrats Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado; and Republicans John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida and Jeff Flake of Arizona.
via megalextoria.com
Hit us with your best shot, Andy!
Assault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,
via megalextoria.com
State stops sale of cheap milk
The upscale supermarket chain yanked milk from its $2.99 once-a-week promotion after a state auditor objected to the low price. A gallon of whole milk was priced at $5.69 Thursday at the Fresh Market in Perkins Rowe.
via megalextoria.com
Friday, January 25, 2013
Emerald Rose - Take Me Down - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Take Me Down (To Her Water)' at Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
Illinois Citizens Still Being Arrested For Filming Cops Despite Court Ruling
Illinois citizens are still being arrested for recording police officers despite a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that blocked the enforcement of the law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.
via megalextoria.com
I Put My Life on the Line Writing This Article!
But the latest data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics once again show that these groups [police officers and firefighters] of government employees work in relatively safe professions, with firefighters having a lower death rate than the average American worker and barely edging out cashiers in terms of putting their lives on the line. Most cashiers are killed on the job because of homicides, whereas a quarter of firefighter deaths are from truck accidents and the numbers have declined, apparently, after concerted efforts to convince these heroes to buckle their seatbelts.
via megalextoria.com
Republicans in Virginia, other states seeking electoral college changes
In the vast majority of states, the presidential candidate who wins receives all of that state's electoral votes. The proposed changes would instead apportion electoral votes by congressional district, a setup far more favorable to Republicans. Under such a system in Virginia, for instance, President Obama would have claimed four of the state's 13 electoral votes in the 2012 election, rather than all of them.
via megalextoria.com
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Emerald Rose - Penny In The Well - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Penny In The Well' at Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
House approves short-term debt ceiling fix, measure goes to Senate
The House on Wednesday approved a short-term debt ceiling fix that would extend the country's borrowing authority until May while also applying a controversial provision that would suspend lawmakers' pay if they don't pass a budget by April.
via megalextoria.com
Rand Paul's Clinton attack enrages Boxer
Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post," Paul said at the Senate hearing.
via megalextoria.com
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Emerald Rose - Red Haired Mary - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performing 'Red Haired Mary' at Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
In a video posted to his Facebook page, McLaughlin has shared the information of a 'secret' Democrat proposal not simply to make the purchasing of the crudely monikered 'assault weapons' illegal in New York, but also to engage in a mass confiscation programme, removing Americans' weapons from their possession.
via megalextoria.com
Valley gun manufacturer: BOA froze funds over product
A local gun manufacturer says Bank of America withheld nearly $100,000 worth of deposits because of what he is selling.
via megalextoria.com
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Sim City 2000 (SNES)
via pinterest.com
Advertisement for Sim City 2000 for the Super Nintendo from the February 1997 issue of Computer and Video Games
Emerald Rose - Fire In The Head - Megacon 2012
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Fire In The Head' at Megacon 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-18)
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS: OBAMA DECLARES WAR ON LIBERTY AS WE KNOW IT
The president cited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday is celebrated today, citing his “I Have a Dream” speech, implying that when Dr. King told America that “our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on earth,” he was referring not to civil rights but to the mighty will of the state.
via megalextoria.com
Monday, January 21, 2013
Emerald Rose - Wild Mountain Thyme - Megacon 2012 (2012-02-18)
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Wild Mountain Thyme' (or as they like to call it, 'Go Lassie Go!') at Megacon 2012. (2012-02-18)
Federal Reserve was blind to crisis in 2007
Federal Reserve officials were largely unaware of the financial crisis brewing in 2007, until they found themselves in the middle of it, transcripts released Friday show.
via megalextoria.com
In Reversal, House G.O.P. Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
Backing down from their hard-line stance, House Republicans said Friday that they would agree to lift the federal government's statutory borrowing limit for three months, with a requirement that both chambers of Congress pass a budget in that time to clear the way for negotiations on long-term deficit reduction.
via megalextoria.com
Friday, January 18, 2013
Emerald Rose - Come to the Dance - Megacon 2012
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Come to the Dance' at Megacon in Orlando, Florida (2012-02-19).
Examining the last 20 years of mass shootings through the lens of 'gun free' zones
"In the last 20 years, except for the congresswoman (Gabby) Giffords shooting, all of these mass murders have been in places where guns have been forbidden," Hoell told his colleagues in the House.
via megalextoria.com
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Emerald Rose - Merry Mayfolk - Megacon 2012
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs 'Merry Mayfolk' at Megacon in Orlando, Florida (2012-02-19)
$60 BILLION SANDY BILL LARDED WITH PORK
On top of the $17 billion bill, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) offered another amendment that added $33.7 billion to the aid package. That measure passed 228-192, with 20 Republicans from unaffected areas voting for it. As Human Events notes, the Frelinghuysen amendment was loaded with superfluous spending, including "$500 million for weather forecasting and to help create an ocean zoning planthe later one of Obama's pet projects. Also included are $10 million for FBI salaries $2 billion for road construction across the country, as well as funding for the Head Start program, roof repairs at the Smithsonian, and $150 million for fisheries across the country."
via megalextoria.com
Rand Paul to push legislation nullifying Obama's executive actions on guns
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul plans to introduce legislation in Congress soon nullifying the executive orders on guns announced by President Barack Obama on Wednesday, a source familiar with the plans confirmed to The Daily Caller.
via megalextoria.com
Germany Repatriating Gold From NY, Paris 'In Case Of A Currency Crisis'
Germany's central bank announced Wednesday it will repatriate gold reserves held at the New York Fed and the Banque de France in order to have "the ability to exchange gold for foreign currency [...] within a short space of time." Officials at the Bundesbank indicated they have no intention of selling gold, but acknowledged the move is "preemptive" in case a "currency crisis" hits the European Monetary Union. While they tried to minimize the importance of the move at the Bundesbank, repatriating gold is a clear indication of public loss of confidence on foreign central banks and the integrity of the monetary union. Over the past few years, Venezuela, Libya, and Iran have also repatriated their gold holdings.
via megalextoria.com
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Emerald Rose - Castle of Arianrhod - Megacon 2012
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performing 'Castle of Arianrhod' at Megacon in Orlando, Florida. (2012-02-19)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032JN5BW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=azrae...
Rand Paul To Hammer Hillary Clinton On Benghazi: 'It Was A Career-Ending Mistake'
Paul added that he plans on demanding Clinton explain what she knew about the deteriorating security situation in Libya and provide details about who denied requests for additional security personnel at the consulate in Benghazi.
via megalextoria.com
The Ron Paul Legacy
Through his Republican presidential runs in 2008 and 2012, he conjured a large and dedicated army of libertarian activists and politicos where one hadn’t existed before, though we don’t know how many of the 2.1 million people who voted for him in GOP primaries in 2012 are as hardcore libertarian as Paul. Two thriving organizations, Campaign for Liberty and Young Americans for Liberty, arose from those campaigns and survive his congressional career.
via megalextoria.com
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Emerald Rose - Hobbit Set - Megacon '06
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs the Hobbit Set at Megacon in Orlando. (February 25th, 2006)
Biden: W.H. eying 19 executive actions on guns
The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
via megalextoria.com
Adrian Wyllie, LPF Candidate for FL Governor Signs 10th Amendment Pledge
Wyllie said earlier this week "I promise that, if elected, I will defend all Floridians from any unconstitutional Congressional act, Executive Order or United Nations mandate. We will not submit to unlawful federal or international authority, and we will assert our inalienable rights via the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
via megalextoria.com
Monday, January 14, 2013
Emerald Rose - Never Split the Party - Megacon '06
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Never Split the Party at Megacon in Orlando. (February 25th, 2006)
Why Americans will soon pay more to drive every mile
The financial lookouts who toil in America's transportation departments have been waving red flags for years that there wasn't enough money to keep the nation's 4 million miles of roads and bridges drivable. Now the federal government's top accountant has told Congress it should experiment with taxing drivers by the mile to make up billions of dollars in shortfalls. The debate isn't whether you'll pay more to drive in the future, but how you'll pay -- and how much.
via megalextoria.com
Soldiers in Fantasyland
It is time to leave Fantasyland. As Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom Foundation puts it: “After 10 years of invasion, occupation, torture, killings, incarcerations, renditions, assassinations, death, destruction, anger, hatred, and the constant threat of terrorist retaliation, it’s time to admit that the military invasion of Afghanistan, like that of Iraq, was horribly wrong.
via megalextoria.com
Friday, January 11, 2013
Emerald Rose - Irish Heartbeat - Megacon '06
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Irish Heartbeat at Megacon in Orlando. (February 25th, 2006)
Disney-owned ABC want Star Wars TV show!
Lucasfilm has previously developed 50 scripts for a live action Star Wars TV series that was to be based around the criminal underworld of the bounty hunters and was said by ex-Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum to be akin to "Deadwood in space". According to previous reports, Lucasfilm were waiting for special effects technology to develop before the live action TV series would be affordable. Elements of that planned series are reputed to have been used in forthcoming bounty hunter Star Wars videogame 1313.
via megalextoria.com
Rand Paul Has A Far-Fetched Plan To Force Obama's Hand On The Debt Ceiling
The only real way to have leverage with the debt ceiling is to convince people that we are not going to default on our debt,” Paul said. “We could actually direct the President to pay our interest, make Social Security payments, pay soldier salaries, the basic functions that could keep government going. That way we take default off the table. They always scare us into raising the debt ceiling by saying that the stock markets will tank, everyone will go crazy if we default. I don’t think we should default — but I don’t think we should raise the debt ceiling either.
via megalextoria.com
Obama Signs Bill Giving Him Armed Protection For Life
Despite launching a gun control agenda that threatens to disarm the American people, President Obama has signed a bill that would afford him armed Secret Service protection for life.
via megalextoria.com
Jindal proposes elimination of income and corporate taxes in Louisiana
The Times-Picayune reported that Jindal is in the process of fleshing out the tax reform proposal, the goal of which, according to a statement from the Governor’s office and given to the paper, “is to eliminate all personal income tax and all corporate income tax in a revenue neutral manner. We want to keep the sales tax as low and flat as possible.
via megalextoria.com
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Emerald Rose - Queen of Argyle - Megacon '06
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Queen of Argyle at Megacon in Orlando. (February 25th, 2006)
Biden: Obama Considering 'Executive Orders' to Deal With Guns
The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. "There are executive orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.
via megalextoria.com
Who knew the president had the power to do whatever the hell he wants via executive order? Maybe he should just dissolve Congress?
Guns and freedom
A natural right is an area of individual human behavior — like thought, speech, worship, travel, self-defense, privacy, ownership and use of property, consensual personal intimacy — immune from government interference and for the exercise of which we don’t need the government’s permission.
via megalextoria.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Emerald Rose - Four Doors to Elfland - Megacon '06
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performing Four Doors to Elfland at Megacon in Orlando (February 25th, 2006). Unfortunately, this is only a partial clip (a little under a minute).
ANALYSIS: SOCIAL SECURITY BROKE IN 18 YEARS
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the 2031 number is based on the Social Security Trust Fund. In reality, Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system which has no money set aside. All of its payments come from the general Treasury. Since 2010, the government has spent more than it takes in through payroll taxes. Over the next ten years, the total amount the government will have to fund to keep current is $355 billion.
via megalextoria.com
Ron Paul's Liberty Movement Spreads in Congress
The retirement of Congressman Ron Paul from the House of Representatives last week did not end the Texas libertarian's influence in Congress. And if the first week of the new Congress is any indication, his influence has only multiplied.
via megalextoria.com
College Park couple says front yard vegetable garden is under fire again
The greatest freedom you can give someone is the freedom to know they will not go hungry," said Jason Helvenston. "Our Patriot Garden pays for all of its costs in healthy food and lifestyle while having the lowest possible carbon footprint. It supplies valuable food while being attractive. I really do not understand why there is even a discussion. They will take our house before they take our Patriot Garden.
via megalextoria.com
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Emerald Rose - Chocolate Frog - Megacon '09
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Chocolate Frog at Megacon in Orlando. (02/28/2009)
OBAMACARE LAYOFFS, HIRING FREEZES BEGIN
;A survey by the International Franchise Association finds that 31% of franchisees say they plan to cut staff to duck under Obamacare's 50-employer mandate. And another study by Mercer consulting firm found that half of businesses who don't presently offer health insurance plan to reduce employee hours to avert triggering Obamacare's penalties.
via megalextoria.com
Monday, January 7, 2013
Emerald Rose - Four Jacks - Megacon '09
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Four Jacks at Megacon in Orlando. (02/28/2009)
DEMS ON DEBT CEILING: NO CUTS, MORE TAXES
She [Nancy Pelosi] went so far as to say that she’d unilaterally raise the debt ceiling in violation of the Constitution if she were president.
via megalextoria.com
Secret and Lies of the Bailout
It was all a lie one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold to the American people. We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in only temporarily, mind you to prop up the economy and save the world from financial catastrophe. What we actually ended up doing was the exact opposite: committing American taxpayers to permanent, blind support of an ungovernable, unregulatable, hyperconcentrated new financial system that exacerbates the greed and inequality that caused the crash, and forces Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to increase risk rather than reduce it. The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences. We thought we were just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and building a meth lab on the front lawn.
via megalextoria.com
Friday, January 4, 2013
Emerald Rose - Fairies Stole My Keys - Megacon '09
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Fairies Stole My Keys at Megacon in Orlando. (02/28/2009)
Global warming guru Al Gore becomes rich hypocrite with sale of Current TV to Qatar, Inc.
How much does presidential election loser Al Gore hate conservatives? Enough that he wouldn't sell his little-watched Current TV to conservative Glenn Beck, but he would sell it to anti-American terror mouthpiece Al Jazeera for half a billion dollars
via megalextoria.com
Leader of the Liberty Movement, Ron Paul Officially Retires at 77 from Congress
Since his first presidential run in 1988 under the Libertarian party, Rep. Paul has gained a heap of support from everyday Americans. In 2008, when Paul ran under the Republican Party, he sparked what is now known as the "Liberty movement" and got to the core of angered Americans who saw his ideas of less government and more personal liberty as the only sane possibility. After his loss in 2008, one thing was clear this wasn't about winning an election, it was about an intellectual revolution and restoring the message of liberty to the American people.
via megalextoria.com
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Emerald Rose - Fire in the Head - Megacon '09
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Fire in the Head at Megacon in Orlando. (02/28/2009)
Senators Got 154-Page 'Fiscal Cliff' Bill 3 Minutes Before Voting on It
The U.S. Senate voted 89-8 to approve legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff despite having only 3 minutes to read the 154-page bill and budget score.
via megalextoria.com
'WE HAVE PASSED THAT POINT OF NO RETURN'
Republicans and Democrats," he continued, "they pretend they're fighting up there, but they really aren't. They're arguing over power, spin, and who looks good, and who looks bad, but they're all trying to preserve this system where they can spend what they want, take care of their friends, and let the Fed print money when they need it.
via megalextoria.comCrony Capitalist Blowout
There’s plenty to lament about the capital and income tax hikes, but the bill’s seedier underside is the $40 billion or so in tax payoffs to every crony capitalist and special pleader with a lobbyist worth his million-dollar salary. Congress and the White House want everyone to ignore this corporate-welfare blowout, so allow us to shine a light on the merriment.
via megalextoria.com
FBI classified information about OWS assassination plot
Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal.
The revelation -- discussed in a heavily redacted FBI memo unearthed late last month through a Freedom of Information Act request -- reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of plans for a violent assault on the peaceful protest movement but stayed silent on rumors of an assassination attempt only until now.
via megalextoria.com
White House wins fight to keep drone killings of Americans secret
A federal judge issued a 75-page ruling on Wednesday that declares that the US Justice Department does not have a legal obligation to explain the rationale behind killing Americans with targeted drone strikes.
via megalextoria.com
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Emerald Rose - Danny in the Jar - Megacon '09
via youtube.com
Emerald Rose performs Danny in the Jar at Megacon in Orlando. (02/28/2009)
In first test of 2016 primary, Rubio and Paul vote against 'fiscal cliff' deal
Many of the GOP's staunchest fiscal conservatives voted for the agreement, including Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
via megalextoria.com
FISCAL CLIFF DEAL: $1 IN SPENDING CUTS FOR EVERY $41 IN TAX INCREASES
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion--a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.
When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts--cuts that never ultimately came--they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2.
via megalextoria.com
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)