MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD My Brother Sam is Dead is a novel that starts off in April 1775 and ends in February 1779. I would choose the Rebels side because i.
A recent letter on eliminating the Electoral College was totally off the mark. (“High time for Electoral College to go,” Paul Baribault, Jan. 23). The author refers to the “contrived genesis” of the Electoral College. It was hardly contrived, but a seriously debated issue, discussed off and on over the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, […]
it s you guys who pay the price, not me. [laughter] the other thing is we have to raise the threshold, the income level that is subject to the payroll tax. now it s capped and makes the payroll tax a regressive tax. .. mean by that? federal dollars deutsch to medicare, medicaid, social security and defense. defense spending we ve got to cut, we know we can cut it by hundreds of billions of dollars without any real significance. on the insurance side we have to raise premiums, cut taxes or stop providing as much stuff. we have to do that in each of them and the reason is not to be mean-spirited because i believe we can increase taxes on the wealthy. we shouldn t have extended the tax cuts. but the reason to do it is we have the dollars available to invest in the future which means education, infrastructure. those are the kind of things being squeezed out of our federal budget by an inability of our political system to limit the entitlement programs. understand all the cuts the