Direct from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Payroll taxes are regressive:  low- and moderate-income taxpayers pay more of their incomes in payroll tax than do high-income people, on average.  The bottom fifth of households paid an average of 8.3 percent of their incomes in payroll tax in 2009, according to the Congressional Budget Office ( Read more... )

Here are just a few I see in my daily work that need addressing ( Read more... )

MediaMatters.org reported today:

In a January 24 letter to the editor, (billionaire venture capitalist Tom) Perkins hyped a supposed "progressive war on the American one percent" and compared it to Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht, asking: "Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant 'progressive' radicalism unthinkable now?" In the ( Read more... )

I hear this phrase a lot whenever someone gets into trouble with the law: "where is his/her mother?" or "their mother didn't raise them right ( Read more... )

Borrowing from my friends this template to make a point:

Dear Turd of a Boss,

Regarding receiving holiday gifts:

• Thank the person who gives you a gift. Don't just nod and walk away after receiving a gift like you're some kind of King who expected nothing less than your humble, peon servant to decorate you with presents.
• Don't wait 3 weeks to open ( Read more... )

H.R. 7 - "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" (2013-2014), sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ) summarized:

• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act - Prohibits the expenditure of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law or funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by federal law (federal funds) for any ( Read more... )

Mammals really can die from too much sex.

Now you know.

Real songs:

• "Since His Penis Came Between Us" by John Hiatt
• "your x-rays have just come back from the lab and we think we know what your problem is" by Jets to Brazil
• "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey" by The Beatles
• "I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me" by James Brown
• "It's A New Day So Let A Man Come In And Do The ( Read more... )

No one wants to hear from you - ever. It's your job to convince them to listen. You don't accomplish that by being a dick, so listen up ( Read more... )

Forget what's currently happening in Egypt or in China or the Fed shutdown for two whole seconds. I mean, it's not like we're not bombarded with info. about those issues by all of the news networks anyway. You can take a few minutes away from those stories to read others, and not be considered a lax student of the world, trust me. And forget that ( Read more... )