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Amount the Urban Institute predicts that President Obama’s health care reform law will increase the number of self-employed Americans in 2014, or by 1.5 million.
We ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax, where the average American can fill out our taxes on a postcard.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in an interview with Fox News, offering his solution to the controversy of the IRS targeting conservatives groups.
Over the years, Washington has lost any sense of shame. The standard bipartisan pattern has become to work for an important political figure for a few years — and then monetize your Rolodex.
— Walter Shapiro, noting that many former Obama staffers now illustrate the enduring adage about political aides in D.C.: “They came to do good and stayed to do well.”
Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS was engaged in shutting down or trying to shut down the conservative political viewpoint across the country — an enemies list that rivals that of another president some time ago.
— Rep. Hal Rodgers (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post.
And if I were Republicans, I would say to Issa, in the parlance of his old business, “Please step away from that car.”
