Bar Stool Economics - How Taxes Work

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I thought this was a very interesting email that I got. Can you try to get your Congressman to explain to you why they think higher taxes are the answer to getting us out of a recession?

Boehner: America Has the Right to Know the Consequences of Speaker Pelosi's Nat'l Energy Tax

"House Democrats didn't want the American people to understand the true impact of Speaker Pelosi's 1,500-page national energy tax. So House Republican Leader John Boehner took to the House floor and read portions of it to the American people, explaining how it would to raise electricity prices, increase gasoline prices, and ship American jobs overseas to countries like China and India.

House Democrats didn't much like it either, and they tried to shut him down. But Boehner asked Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and other Democrats: Don't you think the American people expect us to understand whats in the bill before we vote on it?"

Well Said Mr. LaTourette

Congressman Steven LaTourette of Ohio calls for the person responsible for allowing AIG employees to get bonuses on the taxpayer dime to "man up!"