Okay, all the ideas we have so far to 'stimulate' the economy consist of the government sending all of us a check. Here is a different line of thinking. How about a two month Federal Tax Holiday, the government does not collect any payroll or income tax for two months?  Well unless we lower income…

  Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade (second from left first row) visited the San Antonio A & M Campus tuesday November 25, 2008. Her assistant is seated at her left.   Dr. Carolyn Green explains programs as Director Ferrier looks on, nice touch with the laptop I thought!   Meanwhile the same day, the…

George Will reviews the mistakes of the first depression. Gee the remedy sounds the same this time around, will it last fourteen years like it did then? As you study tax 'law' you will learn that the continual tinkering with the system sends conflicting messages to business decision makers. Finally they get to the point of…

I spotted this URL in front a  recently built home http://www.ushomeauction.com/ THese folks got their start in the aftermath of the savings and loan meltdown in the 1980s, not surprisingly business is most brisk in FL and CA

These writers suggest that the Big 3 need to simply sell their assets to someone else. That makes sense. As a former bankruptcy trustee, most of these cases end in an auction to the highest bidder. It would make much more sense for these factories to become part of successful American operations of well financed companies…

Tom Sowell weighs in on exec pay via a Russian fable.  We are hearing much ado about limiting exec pay particularly in terms of the bailouts. While it is  a PR disaster in many cases, what the CEO is making is usually not the real problem. In the GM and Ford case, paying people literally not…

Dr. Sowell points out that the Recovery is more a power grab by politicians than anything else. I suspect that most of the people that the govt will help are rather potential voters for the folks coming into office.  And frankly probably most of them were in trouble, like GM and Ford, before all thsi…

I see Barack is readying his 'rescue plan.To put such schemes in perspective we need go no further than right here in San Antonio. Page B1 of the sunday metro section reports the following. Eight years ago SA voters approved a sales tax increase to build a network of trials along greenbelts that b order…

Twilight was released Nov 21, yesterday. It has already done $752 Million at the box office. Now do you believe what I have been saying?  The new Twilight book series features a romance between young female Bella and vampire Edward. Similarly Sookie is smitten with vampire Bill  in HBO's True Blood. Sunday night has always been a…

I have been writing that the public mood has turned  negative. This is beginning ot manifest in very open and obvious forums. Five protestors in tiny Iceland went tp jail  after a demonstration in Reykjavik.  Iceland banks went bust promsiing all sorts of things to various European depositors. Six people are dead in a Tijuana…