http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/03/13/like-nra-who-scares-the-bejesus-out-of-elected-officials-when-we-talk-gun-control-rich-do-same-with-loop-holes/

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…What we the people are looking for is a deal on immigration reform and gun control. And jobs.

But do you know what we need even more? An overhaul to the tax system. We want a fair and efficient system — with more revenue for the Dems and less government for the Repubs. And you want to know how easy that is to accomplish? Very.

Don’t let the liars in Washington fool you. Or the shortsighted news readers on the TV and radio. Overhaul is as simple as a stroke of the pen.
How? Simply slash the outrageous tax breaks for the super rich. Before you tune me out, just consider this:

No more yacht write-offs (how many people do you know that have a yacht? You pay taxes to cover their write-off).

No more private jet write-offs (again, how many people do you know that have private jets? You’re paying for their write off with your taxes).
No more corporate off shore stashing of profits to avoid taxes (you have to pay taxes, why shouldn’t they?).

No more subsidies to oil companies thus giving them billions in profits with unfair write-offs like off-shore banking. (You’re paying for it with your taxes).

No more tax breaks to companies for outsourcing jobs. (Yes, we give a break if a company hires workers in a foreign land as opposed to a legal worker here in the states.)

No more giving free money to banks (too large to fail or jail) thus giving them even larger corporate writeoffs for managing the money they’ve been loaned).

What’s holding us back are loopholes that should never have been in existence in the first place. Their purpose has long since retired — along with the crooks who wrote them into the tax codes.

And just like the NRA who scares the Bejesus out of our elected officials when we talk any sort of gun control, the rich do the same if you threaten their loop holes.

Politicians think only the rich put money into their campaigns so the poor and middle class don’t matter. Ask Karl Rove how that went. Our vote is what they need even more than money. And our vote counts just as much as the millionaires’ or business tycoons’.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/obama-im-no-cheney-on-drones-88853.html?hp=t3_3

President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse…He also tried to assure his former colleagues that his administration is more open to oversight than that of President George W. Bush, whom many Democratic senators attacked for secrecy and for expanding executive power in the national security realm.

“This is not Dick Cheney we’re talking about here,” he said, according to Democratic senators who asked not to be named discussing the private meeting.

His Likud-Yisrael Beitenu party list will form a coalition with the centrist Yesh Atid and Hatnua and the far-right Jewish Home.

Mr Netanyahu was forced to give up his alliance with the ultra-Orthodox parties: Shas and United Torah Judaism. ‘

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21745344

does this mean pbo will spend st patrick’s day in israel? that’s just wrong!

‘ At the start of a second term, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama talk to Jonathan Van Meter about their life as parents, their marriage, and their vision for America’s families. ‘

http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/michelle-obama-leading-by-example/#1

woot!