Tag: taxes

Barry & Bev’s economy, by the numbers

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We here at The Haymaker want to make sure you have ALL the vital information you need to make thoughtful, responsible decisions this election year.

Bev & The Big Lie: GOP wrecked public education, so we need to pay more taxes

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s beleaguered boss lady, desperately trying to stop her political career’s slide down the drain, is hauling out every scare tactic in the book.

Senator Hagan and payroll taxes

Posted on December 3, 2011December 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

North Carolina’s junior U.S. Senator Kay Hagan — affectionately known around Capitol Hill as “Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet” — is stepping into the fray

DeMint stands alone against ‘pandering’

Posted on November 17, 2011November 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

No one can accuse South Carolina’s U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of being a typical Washington politician — wetting his finger and holding it up to see which way the wind

Congressman Howard Coble: My promises have time limits

Posted on November 13, 2011November 13, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Congressman Howard Coble (RINO-Greensboro) is in the midst of his SECOND consecutive attempt to SCREW his constituents. (The first being his endorsement of Joan “Distant Third behind

Southern Pines 2011: Woodruff’s questions

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I was flipping through this past Sunday’s edition of our thrice-weekly Pulitzer Prize winning local paper, when I noticed an ad promoting the Southern Pines Town Council

Herman Cain lays out solid defense of 9-9-9

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Brant Clifton

GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain, under attack from BarryO, Hillary, his primary opponents, and the alleged Mainstream Media has released a simple primer detailing key points of

In defense of 9-9-9 and other like-minded tax reform

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Dr. Arthur Laffer, the brains behind supply-side economics and many of the policies that led to the boom of the Reagan era, has an interesting piece in

Lay off Small Business

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

The title of this post is the same as the title for an excellent, thought-provoking op-ed a Moore County small business owner penned in a recent

Media lets Leftist mouthpieces attack Cain’s 9-9-9 plan

Posted on October 16, 2011October 16, 2011 by Brant Clifton

You can tell who the Left fears the most by looking at who the media attacks the hardest. McClatchy Newspapers — which owns The N&O and The Charlotte Observer