Archive for December, 2008

Mike Huckabee v. Jon Stewart - fiscal policy that’s not funny

Written by Michael Vass
So I saw an interesting thing the other day on the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It was a discussion between Stewart and Mike Huckabee. As you might imagine it was confrontational, but not to the degree of say Bill O’Reilly and Rep. Barney Frank.

The crux of the first part of the conversation [...]

New York State budget problem

Written by Michael Vass
So I have been listening to the argument that New York State needs to increase it’s taxes to make the budget. It is expected that the State will miss by some $15 billion, and thus something needs to be done.
The current plan will increase taxes on everything from State college tuition to [...]