Barack on the cover of The New Yorker

MadeOmoney — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:32:18 GMT

Barack Obama's team has decried The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7505953.stm

Video - John Edwards Endorses Barack

forthefew — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:59:25 GMT

Here's a YouTube video announcing the endorsement...

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Hillbama: The Largest Tax Increase since WWII

Lowell405 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:04:51 GMT

Hillbama believes that tax increases are necessary to balance the budget and finance the coming heathcare crisis. From my understanding, letting the Bush tax cuts expire would 1) increase tax rates across the board 2) the marriage penalty be re-imposed 3) increase long term capital gains to 20% 4) Tax on dividends will be increased up to 39% 5) AMT tax will hit 20-30 million middle american's and 6) bring back the estate tax.

Now although I agree that it's impossible to run a country without taxes and responsible spending, wouldn't now be the wrong time to have the largest tax increase since WWII while the country is currently trying to recover through a recession? Furthermore, if you want an increase in economic growth, increasing taxes on investments is not the answer. Shouldn't we maintain the current tax cuts or even reduce them further in the short term?

Furthermore, I fugure if you want more domestic and international businsses to do business in the US then the US needs to be more favorable on the corporate tax rate and regulatory enovirnment (Sarbox) as well. I mean really, the more regulation and taxes you hammer into the system, the costlier it becomes to conduct business here. Let's make the business environment conducive for economic expansion and growth instead of the opposite.

BTW...here's what Clinton and Obama would look like if they merged.

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Barack on the cover of The New Yorker

Video - John Edwards Endorses Barack

Hillbama: The Largest Tax Increase since WWII