Tax and Spend

IRS attacks Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, demanding its donor list.

Phony Ryan budget passes House.

"The Democrats are too heavily invested in slash-and-burn politics to even make an effort to see where both parties might be in agreement. After all, the president’s budget – which says no to no one and promises a dependent land of milk and honey – spends an average of just 1.7 percent more per year than the GOP budget. Yes, that’s right, the Ryan budget – which, according to tired Democratic hyperbole, guts funding for women, children and seniors and generally is a blight and plague on the American landscape – actually also increases spending, just by less than 1.7 percent a year compared with what President Obama wants to spend. To be precise, the president’s 2015 budget increases spending by 5.2 percent per year, while Ryan’s 2015 budget increases spending by an average of 3.5 percent per year over the 10-year budget cycle. We should argue about how funds should be allocated within the budget, but not with the common-sense idea that we can survive if we spend a little less than what the spendthrift Democrats’ dream budget calls for."

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is 1.7 percent. We should quit talking about where they differ. The problem is the 98.3 percent where they agree.

IRS employees illegally supported Obama campaign while at work.

After all the bailouts, all the printing of money, all the supposed austerity, and all this time, the EU debt crisis is as bad as ever.