Chuck Schumer

From Eric Dondero: In response to the Facebook co-founder, billionaire living in Singapore, who has giving up his U.S. citizenship in order to stave off hundreds of millions in tax dollars owed to the U.S. government, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has proposed an ex-pat tax. The Hill reports, "Norquist compares Sen. Schumer’s tax-dodger bill to the Nazis, communists": “I think Schumer can probably find the legislation to do this. It existed in Germany in the 1930s and Rhodesia in the ’70s...Read Full Story

As you may have heard, earlier this afternoon, Facebook priced its initial public offering at $38/share, valuing co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s stake at approximately $2.9 billion. Since Saverin conveniently renounced his US citizenship last week, he will avoid paying millions in capital gains taxes and hang on to an estimated $67-$100 million that would have otherwise gone to the government, news that did not sit right with Chuck Schumer. Did the Senator from New York call the guy a “piece of...Read Full Story

Photo credit: WikipediaThe US Supreme Court is hearing arguments for and against Arizona's Know-Nothing Appeasement Law this week. All of the sides are clearly wrong about one or more major issues, but (as is so often the case) US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) garners the award for Dumbest Sound Byte of the Day:Immigration has not and never has been an area where states are able to exercise independent authority.In point of fact, the states exercised the only political authority over...Read Full Story

We’ve talked about taxes quite a bit here. We covered that when Maryland passed a special tax on millionaires, one third of their millionaires disappeared, and the state ended up losing money. When NY passed oppressive cigarette taxes, New Yorkers found ways to evade it, and the state missed their income projections by several country miles. And, we covered that the early 90′s luxury tax cost tens of thousands of jobs, and then the government ended up paying more for unemployment benefits...Read Full Story

Chuck Schumer put his Senatorial arm on FBI Director Robert Mueller last week -- pressuring him to call NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and brief him on the recently foiled Yemeni bomb plot.Read More...Read Full Story

::: !STORM! ::: CAPITAL REGION ::: NYCWhere I was today... Senator Chuck Schumer is joined outside Albany City Hall by Congressman Paul Tonko, Albany County Executive Mike Breslin, Mayor of Albany Jerry Jennings, Mayor of Schenectady Brian Stratton, Rensselaer County Executive Kathy Jimino and Albany County Legislator Brian Scavo.U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer stopped by Albany City Hall on a freezing cold Tuesday morning to call on the Department of Homeland Security to provide the Capital...Read Full Story

Trains have been dominating the headlines - with warnings of terror attacks against the Amtrak system, announcements of funding for new rail construction projects, plus a plethora of recent derailments and other mishaps, the public is suddenly hyper-aware of the nation's rail service.Data recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan hideout indicated the Al-Qaeda leader had been mulling the possibility of attacking the nation's railways, whenever he could tear himself away from watching his own...Read Full Story

If you want to see some angry women, check out this next video. I feel sorry for these womens' husbands and boyfriends (if they have them) as they advocate for slutty, irresponsible women. They will try to sell this as overall womens' health, but isn't Obamacare supposed to take care of their needs? Yeah, Senator Schumer, tell me why Planned Parenthood needs to exist when Obamacare is supposed to ensure womens' breasts get examined.Notice after the really angry woman (Nancy Keenan) who talks...Read Full Story

Nikki Schwab, Katy Adams It sounded like a great idea in theory. Have "Jersey Shore's" Snooki judge a look-alike contest at the Washington Auto Show as part of her appearance there. But sadly not many area girls got the memo. Only nine "Snookis" appeared on stage with the starlet, and some of the girls were simply grabbed from the audience because they were petite and brunette. The winner, Mallory Biazzo of Ashburn, was crowned because she brought blinged-out sunglasses like...Read Full Story

« Guy dressed in Colonial garb willing to trade DADT repeal for rising debt ceiling    Dick Cheney, torture, and the “no true Scotsmen” argument » By Hanlon, on May 8th, 2011 at 08:48 PM A “no-train” list is a stupid idea. Have you not been reading about how useless the TSA has been? What next? “No walk” lists for sidewalks? The DMV starts revoking driver’s licenses? Category: democrats, stupid, terrorism blog comments powered by Disqus What's new? From...Read Full Story