Lets do the Shummy shuffle

This should prove to be a very interesting problem to solve.
Rutland residents are remiss in paying their property taxes, probably due to the economy.
Shifting the property tax burden to the income tax somehow doesn’t seem to be a solution, since unemployment appears to be the culprit.

Delinquent Taxes Up 20 Percent In Vermont City
$600,000 Due To [...]

Forecast for the Dynamic Duo of Shummy & Shap

Warning over US cash-for-clunkers scheme
The popular US cash-for-clunkers programme may be drawing money from other consumer purchases and could also undermine future car sales, US economists have warned.
Add these payments to the monthly budget and we see how retail spending shapes up for the next 1½ years.
Layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies are rising still and forecast [...]

FLOTUS will now pick the arugula

The Office of Thrift Supervision, a misnamed division of the Treasury will save the government money in numerous ways. The Vermont Tiger, posting on this subject pointed out several areas of egregious waste such as unused e-mail addresses, the Army stacking more soldiers onto R&R flights and the best of all, the Forest Service will [...]

Keep the jobs for Americans

Are you out of work?
Sens.Leahy and Sanders voted to kill these amendments. Nice of them, wasn’t it.

Sign the electronic petition at this website: http://www.NumbersUSA.com
It might be your job NEXT!

How Obamacare will work

This short video is quite explanatory.
Doctor Bob leads you through the simple steps.

Equality achieved er maybe not

Paraphrasing Anatole France:
Congress and the Administration forbid the rich and poor disparate health care plans!

Unions’ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Proposal (Update1)

June 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate proposal to impose taxes for the first time on “gold-plated” health plans may bypass generous employee benefits negotiated by unions.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, [...]

A pretty good question

The Vermont Woodchuck asked this in his recent post:
Who is Obama?
Think of him as
Pee Wee Herman
–in black face–on PCP
–with a gun.

In a collectivist society, that is no excuse to stop spending OPM. The Proles don’t know or care that OPM is gone.

They want, you provide or the revolution arrives.

In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, [...]

School choice

When choosing advanced degrees, one needs to look before and beyond graduation, since some upcoming factors can determine choices.
One adds undergrad debt to these amounts.
A decent law school costs about $50K/yr for 3 yrs with a debt of $150K and the prospect of working one’s butt off as an associate for $160K/yr after graduating. Paying [...]

Going Galt on Socialist economics

You can “Go Galt” in your own way and help derail Obama’s plans for a “Socialist America.”
Taking from the earning class is only possible when there is something to take.  This isn’t about the rich, for confiscation of all their money wouldn’t put a dent in Obama’s deficit spending.
However, YOU can do much to prevent [...]

Why is the sky blue dept?

I’m from the Government;
I’m here to help you.
Sen. Leahy helped Vermont dairy farmers get more for their milk.
Milk now costs consumers $4 per gal.
Vermont dairy farmers now get less for their milk.
Many are going out of business.
State Sen. Shumlin wanted to help Vermont dairy farmers.
He wanted to set prices stores can sell milk.
He didn’t to [...]