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Barclays Capital Study Echoes CFIF on the Danger of Raising Taxes on "The Rich"

We note in our Lunchtime Liberty Update this week that the Obama Administration's class warfare campaign targeting "the rich" will inflict further harm on our economy.  Not only would such tax increases hit small businesses (which create most new jobs in America) particularly hard, it would also penalize the income segment that accounts for 1/3 of consumer spending, which itself accounts for 2/3 of the nation's economy. Confiscating even more of those dollars may sound fine on a teleprompter, but it will bring destructive consequences in the real world.

Now, a new study by Barclays Capital highlights another potential harm.  According to their analysis, Obama's plan will cause a 9% drop in the S&P 500 and a 900-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  As noted in this morning…[more]

July 30, 2010 • 01:12 pm

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Fishy Is As Fishy Does, Mr. President Print E-mail
By CFIF Staff
Thursday, August 06 2009
Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Citizen Alert! President Obama needs your help, and we want to help you help him.

Although we do not usually involve ourselves in causes that may require stooling on neighbors and relatives, this is a special White House request, and we are thus sure that all civil liberty and privacy concerns have been adequately vetted by Justice Department counsel.

This nation faces an August crisis, you see. Unruly mobs are being bused around the country by villainous insurance companies to spread “fishy disinformation” about the President’s health care reform plan and disrupt the town hall meetings of hapless Congresspeeps who had to attend a seminar to find out what is in the legislation before they went home, but really don’t care since all they want is a ride on the new Gulfstream G5s that Speaker Pelosi has ordered up for congressional travel.

Even though it is never explained how Big Insurance gets such unruly mobs on the bus, HHS Secretary Sibelius has admonished us not to sweat the details, so we won’t. These are really, really insidious unruly mobs, because as Senator Barbara Boxer has observed, they are way too well dressed to be legitimate citizens peaceably assembling to seek a redress of grievances.

At any rate, the President requests that “if you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to

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In 1967, Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa was jailed on a 13-year sentence for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Which one of the following Presidents commuted his sentence?
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"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the world’s worst cleaning lady. How has she fulfilled her vaunted promise to 'drain the swamp' and preside over the 'most ethical Congress in history'? By shrugging her shoulders, downplaying the gravity of myriad ethics charges against corruptocrat Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel and waiting for the 'political chips' to 'fall where they may.'  Imagine a custodial…[more]
 
 
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