Boehner: Let’s Destroy Math Instead of Economy -- Daily Intelligencer:
"Paul Ryan's budget, even while employing all sorts of fanciful projections, didn't balance the budget until 2040.Why? Because the parameters Republicans have picked for the budget make balancing the budget utterly impossible. Moving that timetable up by seventeen years changes the plausibility level from Level: Unicorn to Level: Unicorn Being Ridden By Santa Claus Who Has Lost 50 Pounds Through One Weird Trick. (That's why Santa's riding a unicorn now — otherwise, he'd be far too corpulent.)"
How billionaires have sidestepped a tax aimed at the rich
-
*Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on
questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were
exempt, sometim...
1 hour ago