“tax rate higher than 66.66 percent on a single household risked being considered…confiscatory”

Some moves are more likely than others to attract attention.

 • “Um, it was incorrect, but whether it was untruthful or not– “

• Word “targeted” a” pejorative term”

“We knew they were playing games with us at that point.”

​​”It got creepy…”

• Conflicting stories
• Spokeswoman says no apology issued until today because “no one asked”
• No disciplinary action taken?
• “I’m not good at math.”
• Issa vows probe
• IRS singled out groups that used words like “patriot” or “tea party”
• Blames low-level staffers in Cincinnati
• Top brass denied any wrongdoing in 2012

“I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them.”

The Marketplace Fairness Act is a bad bill being rushed through the Senate in order to avoid appropriate scrutiny

“They might want to rewrite that sentence.”

Although soaring political rhetoric may cry for everyone to pay his fair share, it’s time that the politicians realize that Americans have paid their fair share and then some.

Your government at work.

“I believe it is important to level the playing field for all retailers.”

With the threat of many conservative defections, will Boehner and Cantor violate the Hastert rule for the 5^th time this year, and pass the bill with minority Republican/majority Democrat support?

“I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is — we really don’t know who did this — it was tax day.”

“Of all the times to stop working!”

Beyond the headline-grabbing taxes on the rich, the Obama budget also includes what ABC’s Chris Good describes as “some quirky maneuvers the president suggests to offset spending and keep the deficit just a bit lower.”

“Thanks to satellite imagery and geographic information systems, Big Brother can measure your roof and driveway.”

This idea solves two problems with our tax code: a perception of fairness; and slow jobs and economic growth.