On a recent morning walk, my friend John Poltrack suggested that maybe I would have been a better icon to represent the proverbial small business man than the now world famous Joe the Plumber . John the Software Engineer owns his own business, employs people, and pays a good chunk of his business income in taxes. I think I pay too much in taxes, but of course everybody thinks that. I made the mistake one time of sitting down and calculating how much of Big Time Software’s income actually goes out in taxes of way form or another and the answer is a very discouraging 50%. That qualifies as too much in my opinion…and I still consider myself a patriot despite what Joe Biden might think. My business makes more money than Senator Obama seems to think I deserve to keep, so I can look forward to being in his crosshairs to pay even more should he be elected President. I certainly don’t want to attract the scrutiny of the crack investigative media teams that have unearthed every skeleton in p
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Speaker Bill O’Brien and the Tea Party legislature’s sneak attack on New Hampshire women must be stopped.
If you haven’t seen the news over the last few days, the legislature is attempting to repeal a long-standing and bipartisan law that guaranteed women would have access to contraception and basic health care in their personal insurance plans. And I need to emphasize that this law does not require any religious organization to pay for contraception.
The Concord Monitor reported that Speaker O’Brien quietly “attached this amendment to an unrelated bill that eliminates ‘obsolete or outdated’ provisions from various state laws.”