Isn’t it time that the government stops telling us what we can do for entertainment? The GOP congress slipped in a law regulating online poker in 2006. Poker players and others who believe in basic freedoms and liberty are trying to overturn that law and ensure that this game of skill can be played without governmental interference (other than sensible oversight, taxes and regulation).
Here’s a video from the Poker Players Alliance.
If a nutty tax-protestor tries to tell you that the tax codes are not enforceable by the federal courts, just point them to the sorry tale of Wesley Snipes. What a moron.
Barack Obama talks about the economy and taxes with Maria Bartiromo. His proposals make sense. Some taxes will go back to the rates during the Clinton years, while many middle class Americans will get a tax cut. When asked about some of the tax increases, Obama has a great response:
Why raise taxes in a slowdown? Isn’t that going to put a further strain on people?
There’s no doubt that anything I do is going to be premised on what the economic situation is when I take office next January. The thing you can be assured of is that I’m not going to make these decisions based on ideology. I’m not a dogmatist. My opponents to the right would like to paint me as this wild-eyed liberal, but I believe in the market. I believe in entrepreneurship. I believe in capitalism, and I want to do what works. One of the problems with the Bush Administration has been its rigidness when it comes to economic policy. It doesn’t matter what the problem is, they’ll say tax cuts. Trade deficit? Tax cuts. Slowdown in manufacturing? Tax cuts. At a certain point, if you’ve only got one arrow in the quiver, you’re going to have problems.
With his surge in the polls, Mike Huckabee is scaring the hell out of economic conservatives and foreign policy conservatives. James Taranto isn’t impressed with Huckabee’s Fair Tax proposal.
The Democrats will be working on serious reforms of the tax code, including a sensible compromise on the Estate Tax.
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