News and politics

A nice interactive graphic of how possible changes in federal tax cuts would affect your income tax. Tip from Flowing Data. Read more

You decide Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Mark Tapscott ran some quick figures on the numbers of public welfare employees per 100,000 residents, using Census Bureau data.  Here’s his Top 10 List.I ran a simple regression which suggests a zero intercept, and an average of 199.5 employees per 100,000 residents.   The big outliers are New York, Texas, and Florida.  Of course, the Read more

Tip from the Parkway Rest Stop. Read more

Income tax is going to change in 2011 with the projected expiration of the Bush tax cuts.  See how it might affect you. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Here’s an easy first step to trimming the expense of Big Fed: 86 the entire agency, and all its ticket-punchers, responsible for this waste of time and effort. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Bexar County (Texas) has a relatively low Economic Stress Index of 8.47. Tip from the Drudge Report, who linked to this. Read more

This man is only lying while his lips are moving:       Tip from the Instapundit. Update (27 April).  Some grown-ups have noticed.  Unfortunately, it won’t make the lies stop.Update (2 May).  Reason TV explains the shell game in detail.  And the NY Times deigns to notice.  Tip from the Instapundit. Update (4 May).  The Competitive Read more

Wanna bet there’s a big overlap between this group of spongers and this other group of deadbeats?  The words "I’m entitled to…" make me want to kick the speaker right in the ass. Read more