1. October 2008 by BullMoose.

Senator Obama has repeatedly promised on the campaign trail and in the debates to give “95 percent” of the American people a tax cut. There is, however, a little problem with this promise. Fewer than 95 percent of the American people actually pay income taxes each year. According to the National Taxpayers Union, the top 50 percent paid 97.01 percent of all Federal income taxes by income. Those below $31,987 paid the other 2.99 percent. Based on these figures, which are from the 2006 tax year, you can extrapolate that about 70 percent of Americans pay federal income taxes. I’ve heard figures between 60-80 percent pay federal income taxes. Read the rest of this entry »

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1. October 2008 by BullMoose.

By D. M. Ross

The AFL-CIO and other supporters of unions support a bill, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would radically change laws regulating the establishment of union representation in non-union workplaces. Current labor law provides for a process where the union begins the process by asking employees to desire union representation to sign cards, which is followed by a campaign period where both sides make their case for and against the union. And then the final step of the process is a secret ballot election to decide if the workplace will elect union representation. The change proposed in the Employee Free Choice Act would essentially eliminate the latter two steps and certify a union if 50 percent plus one more employee sign the cards. If enacted, the legislation would effectively deny employees the right to decide the union or no union issue via the security of a secret ballot. Read the rest of this entry »

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