When accounting goes unaccounted for
You can just see the perverse enjoyment on Larry’s face as he badgers Utah’s Jason Chaffetz.
I especially enjoyed:
• “Have you sought an advisory opinion from the IRS yada yada yada”
• “Will you seek to do it? TOMORROW!”
• “DOES YOUR WIFE HAVE ANY INCOME?”
• “As far you know, the rest of them are criminals too.”
[via TaxProf]
To trigger job growth, Gingrich proposed to cut the U.S. corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 12.5 percent, a deeper cut than some other Republican politicians have offered. He would extend income tax cuts that expire in 2013, which were the subject of a pitched battle late last year when President Barack Obama tried to let tax reductions for wealthier Americans expire. And he would completely eliminate the capital gains tax on stock profits. Gingrich, proposed that the country move toward an optional flat tax for Americans of 15 percent, and strengthen the dollar by returning to “Reagan-era monetary policies,” and reform the Federal Reserve to promote transparency. [Reuters]
We defy you to find more appropriate background music for a scene with three spell-casting broads cackling around a cauldron.
But what about that sinister rhetoric? Jim Newell over at Gawker suggests that the ad channels a viral ‘Bed Intruder Song’. Reasoning that the lyrics “Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband, cause they rapin’ everybody up in here” translated into the “Hide your will, hide your lights, ’cause he’s taxing everything out here.”
Maybe Newell is onto something. If you just imagine boxy eyeglasses and a Members Only jacket combined with Coons’s textbook horseshoe balding pattern, he would have a über-creepy vibe going on. Plus he loves taxes! Yep, this ad is a winner.
[via TaxProf]
Okay so maybe Sears isn't "desperate" but they did announce 100+ would be closed this […]