I am pleased as punch to present you with the first high-resolution video of Michele Bachmann!
You can click here for her video blog, where you’ll find more videos.
You can read the most recent post I wrote about her, which includes links to some of her best speeches, photos and interviews.
Please contribute to her 2010 campaign, if you can.
Watch this video by libertarian Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute. (H/T Power Line via ECM)
I normally don’t like these Dan Mitchell videos, but this one is better than the others I’ve seen at giving you a great introduction to so many useful topics.
The national sales tax would be a GREAT idea, if we went on to remove an equivalent amount of revenue from the income tax. It’s much better to tax consumption than productive work. But that’s not what the Democrats want to do with this value-added tax. They want both income and consumption taxes, so they get a new revenue stream and more money to buy votes from their favorite special interest groups.
Here is a Wall Street Journal article about the Democrats’ proposed VAT.
Excerpt:
The allure of a VAT for politicians is that it applies to every level of production or service, rakes in piles of money, and is largely hidden from those who ultimately pay it—namely, consumers. With a $9 trillion 10-year budget deficit, $4 trillion in spending in fiscal 2010 alone, and a $1 trillion (at a minimum) health-care entitlement in the wings, Mrs. Pelosi knows that not even the revenue from the expiration of the lower Bush tax rates in 2011 will cover the bills. Nearly every European country that has passed national health care has also eventually imposed a VAT, and it’s foolish to think the U.S. will be different.
Tax and spend.
UPDATE: Did you see the video of the testimony of Canadian free speech activists Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn against Section 13.1 of the censorship act in Canada? I linked to it here.
Welcome visitors from Blue Like You! Thanks for the link Joanne!
ToryNinja notified me about this video of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper singing and playing the piano in a comment, but it deserves a post. The song is “With a Little Help from my Friends” by the Beatles. He plays the piano very well while singing!
Blue Like You has a lot more here.
Everyone from the mainstream media to the blogs are talking about it. He is getting a lot of accolades from some traditionally nasty places. The Canadians are just thrilled with their conservative prime minister. He’s an economist, so he knows how to run the country. I wish he was my President! When you look at the jobs lost during the current recession, it’s quite clear that we are doomed.
Previous posts on Stephen Harper
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