The result is a tax system that exempts almost half the country from paying for programs that benefit everyone, including national defense, public safety, infrastructure and education. It is a system in which the top 10 percent of earners — households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 — paid about 73 percent of the income taxes collected by the federal government.

I can’t imagine there has ever been a time in this country before the last couple years when half the population had an effective federal income tax rate of 0%

SAIS = Washington Elite

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New Hampshire: fuck yeah

“…the budget office is required to take written legislation at face value and not second-guess the plausibility of what it is handed. So fantasy in, fantasy out.

In reality, if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus, a wholly different picture emerges: The health care reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562 billion.”

Insert tree falls in a forest here.  Except in this case, yes, we’ll know the tree fell because it will come down on our heads.

P.S. DHE War Room shout out.