New York taxes could chase 25 % of population from state

Image via WikipediaNY Post:As state lawmakers hem and haw over Gov. Cuomo's property-tax cap, a new poll last week showed that more than one of every four New Yorkers is headed for the exits.Indeed, more than one in three New Yorkers under the age of 30, some 36 percent, want out, the survey by the exemplary NY1/YNN-Marist pollsters found."Unchecked," says Marist's Lee Miringoff, "this threatens

Fair share politics

Image via WikipediaPeter Farrar:Sen. Bernie Sanders, the avowed socialist from Vermont who filibustered extending the Bush tax cuts, doesn't understand that before President Obama was even elected, the top 1 percent of income earners already paid more in federal income taxes than the bottom 95 percent combined.Internal Revenue Service data for 2007 showed that the top 1 percent of earners paid

Democrat energy dog and pony shoe fails

Image by EnergyTomorrow via FlickrIBD:As the House passes a bill to open up offshore drilling, the Senate holds another show trial of oil executives showing why people blame them, not the administration, for high gas prices. Last week they fought back.Summoned for what Sen. Orrin Hatch labeled a dog-and-pony show, executives of Exxon Mobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, BP America and Chevron appeared

Democrats split on how much to raise taxes

Image via WikipediaWashington Post:While Republican tensions over tackling the national debt have been on public display for days, Democrats have also been squabbling with one another, though largely out of view.At issue for Democrats is whether the party risks going overboard in its embrace of tax increases — a perilous proposition for lawmakers from political battlegrounds.Those tensions

Greedy Democrats covet Big Oil profits

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeSusan Ferrechio:Executives of the nation's top five oil companies faced off Thursday against Senate Democrats who want to take away billions of dollars in annual tax breaks the industry has enjoyed for nearly a century.With gas prices hovering near $4 per gallon and the nation's budget deficit topping $1.3 trillion, Democrats sought to seize on the anger and