by Gary Ivey | Apr 10, 2012 | Current Posts
I’m told the so-called “Buffet Rule”, where capital gains taxes are increased to the level of regular income (to make it “fair”) will raise about $4 billion per year. Chump change to the Federal government, which spends about that much...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 31, 2012 | Current Posts
Today I fueled up both cars at once. Yikes! $107.28 and they weren’t even really empty! To add insult to injury, I got the gasoline for 30 cents off the posted price per gallon. It should have been nine dollars more. How did I get it 30 cents off? I had 300 fuel...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 28, 2012 | Current Posts
This week the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the Constitutionality of the Health Care law known as “ObamaCare”. The main liberal assertion, articulated better by Justice Ginsburg than by the Obama Administration lawyer, is that, since it...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 21, 2012 | Current Posts
Growing up, I was a fan of the Peanuts comic strip. It was always a joy to see Snoopy aboard his Sopwith Camel, Schroeder channeling Beethoven or Linus quoting Kirkegaard. It was also Linus who annually lamented the failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear: “How...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Posts
Apparently Chuck Schumer believes drilling in Saudi Arabia will lower US gasoline prices but drilling in the US will not. According to New York Senator Charles Schumer, the fact that the Saudi Arabians are increasing oil production is good news, because that will...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2012 | Current Posts
In spite of how it might appear sometimes (previous post), I’m not at all opposed to developing alternate energy sources. Yes I wrote a novel (“Backlash”) that follows a fictional Big Oil company executive who is the heroine (!) of the book. But that...