Here’s a piece on the  taxes scheduled to rise  next January.   “Taxmageddon”  isn’t a bad moniker for it.   If His Oneness should be re-elected,  you can depend upon many more taxes,  fees, and fines being added to the list.

Sen.  Tom Coburn has issued  an interesting report  which we should all read.   Veronique de Rugy hits the highlights here.

Well,  what do you know.  Colorado citizens  voted down a  proposed tax hike by 64 % to 36%.   The extra revenue was earmarked for education,  and its proponents outspent the opponents by 20 to 1.   Ross Kaminsky devoted a lot of blog and radio time to defeating the measure,  so he deserves to be pleased.

But the most interesting thing is,  as Paul  Gigot points out,  how many other local tax proposals were shot down.   It would appear that the good taxpayers of Colorado are not buying the progressive mantra of  ”for the children!”  or  listening to the Occupy The Universe crowd.

Harvey Golub has a  first-class response  to Warren Buffet’s asinine call for taxes to be raised on the rich,  and to the assumption of His Oneness that Mr. Golub should keep even less of the money he earned.

Mona Charen has some  excellent suggestions  for how His Oneness could use his own excess income  — you know,  the couple of hundred thousand dollars he boasted about not needing in his recent presser.

Iain Murray reminds us that for  every dollar  you hand over,  the Feds are costing you twice that in regulatory costs.

Think that must be an exaggeration?  Read this jaw-dropping column from Art Laffer on just  the cost of  complying with the tax code.

I am just loving Sen. Claire McCaskill  being caught not paying taxes on her private plane.   My enjoyment  is increased because she  was quick to go after such people when she was the Missouri state auditor, and has lectured against those in government who think rules are for other people.

And isn’t it interesting that a woman who describes herself as a public servant can just write a check for nearly $400,000?

His Oneness thinks the  tax framework will help his re-election efforts.   Some think this  ensures a primary challenge from the left.   Charles Hurt makes a killer argument that the move  will win Obama no votes.

Nicole Gelinas isn’t  overly enthusiastic about the proposed deal.  The White House is now claiming  it wanted a fight,  but few in the democratic caucus seem to believe it,  and Jennifer Rubin says flatly  the Republicans won.   Byron York examines how the Democrats use of reconciliation and failure to issue a budget has come back to bite them now.

But what if Obama  got exactly what he wanted,  asks Joseph Lawler

As for His Oneness,  how  meaningful is a federal wage freeze if federal employees are still getting $2.5 billion in pay increases?

Thomas Sowell has  a column on the debt which you must read.    And do click on the link to the Congressional Budget Office report  —  as a former Fed chair says,  the report is written to a level of simplicity which even a Congressman can comprehend.

Here’s another column by Dr. Sowell, in which he explains how His oneness is  taking us all for fools.

Peter Robinson has a new Uncommon Knowledge series with Dr. Sowell,  and 4 of the 5 parts are available  here.

Yes,  there are some things worth paying taxes for,  but very few of them are being funded these days.    Enjoy this  little  propaganda cartoon from 1943,   starring Donald Duck,  and thanks to Daniel Foster and Ezra Klein for pointing us to it.