Points to Ponder:

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?" [Senator Barry Goldwater]

Briefly on a Past Controversy...

It was brought to my attention recently that some parties with whom there were some some heated contentions with on some topics{1} has sought for reasons known only to themselves to try and goad persons such as your humble servant into a recurrence of those prior disputations. It is not my intention to mention any names on this, only to remark briefly that (i) I am aware of what they are trying to do and (ii) considering how it has been my practice for nearly ten years now to only discuss the issue in question at the time of year when it can properly be considered a live issue{2}, their attempting to raise it outside of that very limited time frame seems to indicate a hope on their part that they could get away with slipping their latest text dump by without comment to thereby proclaim that said latest text dump was "unanswerable" by persons such as myself.

I will only note briefly at this time that if the party in question had bothered to actually read what was written at this humble website and elsewhere many years ago, they would have learned that nothing they are offering now makes a dent in what was said here and elsewhere on the subject in question and their presumptive "smoking gun" in recent days is far from what they think it is.

I will however leave it at that and note that maybe if said parties want a real dialogue on the issue, they can act in a fashion more fitting of a dialogue{3} and approach this issue directly and during a relevant time for such discussions{4} if that is what they really want. I suspect it is not but I note these things briefly at this time nonetheless and with that will say nary a word on these matters prior to the relevant time to do so{5} if even then. It is too bad that others do not do likewise and while I suspect there are monetary reasons behind such reticence on their part, that is all I will say about these matters at the present time.

Notes:

{1} Particularly one of a rather incendiary nature.

{2} Namely, the month of August.

{3} For a change.

{4} See footnote two.

{5} See footnote two.

'Holy crap': Experts find tax plan riddled with glitches

I do not remember Politico being so concerned about "glitches" back when the "Affordable Care Act" was being rolled out...

Tax reform should reduce payroll taxes, cut corporate levy

This is what Congress should be doing with tax policy!

Right on schedule, the Seahawks shock the league

Points to Ponder:

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? [Barry Goldwater]