Check the TPC link - I'm referring to only income tax (1st column), which is what the Buffett Rule will target. Effective rates for millionaires are only over 30% due to the amount that corporate taxes take out of their income.

They pulled out of China last year http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/23/google-china

Since everyone's asking - I have no dog in this fight. I am quite apathetic about the current GOP field, and this is largely a tongue-in-cheek look at the "holier-than-thou" conservative fights being put up by people loyally committed to one candidate or the other. Vote for who you think will make the best President, and don't allow all of the insubstantial hoopla to influence you.

Not true - the CBO uses their own assumptions and projections. The most control that Congress has over them is appointing some of the people who work there. Which is a pretty significant power, but Congress can't just say "You have to assume that stimulus spending comes with a 3.4 multiplier."

Yes. Yes it is.

Caveat - I've never been to Wisconsin. But Connecticut is quite pleasant.

Yeah. Wisconsin is cold - one vote for Connecticut.

Do you have URLs so I can investigate the connection between WesternPAC & TPX? And is Ron Paul, in your mind, the only "true" tea party politician? That seems like a very, very narrow definition of what constitutes the "true" tea party.

Winston: where is your evidence that WesternPAC is affiliated with TPX?

Winston - there's no such thing as the "true" tea party. The tea party is an organic, grassroots movement of concerned citizens. No one owns them, no one speaks for them. That said, WesternPAC is led by Joe Miller, who ran a campaign with lots of grassroots, tea party support against Lisa Murkowski. The Tea Party Express is a completely separate group. The Tea Party Express is funded by Our Country Deserves Better PAC. Like them or don't like them, they're just one group amongst many that claims solidarity with the tea party movement. And WesternPAC, as far as I can discern, is completely unaffiliated with TPX.