I'm a bit annoyed with the RNC for sending this out, and asking for money to boot.

I'm not fond of teachers or superintendents serving, either. But in that case, their local school board, theoretically, oversee the expenditure of funds, and thus OK the expense. With his House District Office under Buyer, Herschman has a constituency of one. And the Federal Buyer job is certainly no piece of cake–high-paying, and they let him off for three months a year to do legislative stuff.

It's really pretty easy to understand, Pascal. Need some more time?

And, according to the last Census, most Indiana businesses are not corporations. By a large number.

As for the last Bush tax cut working–look around. The economy shrank in real GDP terms, five out of eight Bush years. It grew slightly two others and was iffy another year. These numbers adjust for the war expense, but…without the Pentagon expense, methinks it would've been an even-worse picture.

Thinking once or twice or Again…it all adds up in real numbers, Pascal. You can't rely only on Hannity and O'Reilly for your news.

Randy, corporate tax rates start as low as 11%, federal, and go up. The beauty of the corporate return is, you can depreciate capital expenditures, and many other advantages are available to you over, say, running all the money through your personal accounts.

It's as easy as getting a Fed. TAX ID no. for your business, and starting up shop. Not complicated at all.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was unclear how that tax increases would affect businesses. Makes a little more sense now. Now stupid question, arn't corporate taxes even higher than personal? I mean damned if you do damned if you dont. I would be very concerned that the amount of money they will bring in for the taxes is not off set my increased unemployment.

As for small businesses: if any small business owner doesn't file a separate return for the business (as a sub-S, partnership, et al), then yes, the income from the small business would flow to the individual, and thus be counted toward that $250K cap.

But anyone who doesn't file a separate return for the business, is missing one of the real tax advantages of having a small business. Duh.

And anyone who didn't pay attention during the campaign last year deserves to be smacked upside the head. Obama, love him or loathe him, told the world he was going to pay for health care, in large part, by taxing those making over this amount. And he promised to roll back the Bush tax cuts.

Now, you can despise the president all you want. But if you thought anything different would happen, you weren't paying attention.

Matt: thanks for the resource. It does have some quirks, but I played with it on my lunch hour. Very interesting. Better than the FEC home page. Thanks!

I wish SOS Rokita luck. Seriously. Sen. Herschman is a double-dipping Constitutional idiot. He wants to amend the Constitution for everything social; statutes suffice for that, Senator. Amendments are overkill. Plus, if he doesn't win Buyer's job, he loses a cushy $70,000 a year job as district director for Buyer.

So, for those of you playing the home version of this taxpayer-screwing game: Sen. Hershman pulls down about $110K a year, plus Bennies, from taxpayers, with combined Senate and US House salaries.

And I thought the conservative wing of politics loathed government, or at least wasteful spending. If Sen. Hershman had an ounce of dignity, he'd have resigned either the Senate job or the Buyer job long ago.

That's “if.”