Your tax dollars at work in Democrat Run Colorado.
“Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has awarded some of the state’s first stimulus money to his former employer in a no-bid contract.
Ritter hired his former law firm, the Washington-based Hogan & Hartson, in a no-bid contract to review stimulus spending, The Denver Post reported Friday. It said the firm was paid $40,000 in stimulus money through June.
Aides to the governor insisted the contract was properly awarded. The state attorney general’s office deemed the contract necessary to allow the state to have speedy legal …

They’re beginning with the “Rich“, led by Mr. Tax Evasion himself Crooked Charlie Rangel:
“The House will propose raising taxes on people earning more than $350,000 a year to pay $540 billion for healthcare reform, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) said Friday.
House Democrats had been weighing a plethora of other tax increases, such as levies on sugary soft drinks and alcohol, that raised hackles within their caucus.
Instead, Rangel said Democrats will seek to enact one large tax increase targeting wealthier workers to generate the revenue they need to …

Yuk, yuk! Watch how Gibbs squirms when asked why Obama is backtracking on his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.

Looks like Joe the Plumber was more like Paul Revere! Might be time to begin gearing up the old fashion tax revolt!
Power to the People!
h/t Hot Air.

As I’ve told you, get ready to take out your wallets and purses to pay for Obama’s madness.
“White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won’t rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike.
“The president had said in the past that he doesn’t believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that,” Axelrod told me on This Week, “But there are a number of formulations and we’ll wait and see. …

Get ready, Obama’s coming after your money.
” June 12 (Bloomberg) — Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
Democrats will work on the bill’s details next week as they struggle through “what kind of heartburn” it will cause to agree on how to pay for revamping the health-care system, Rangel, a New York Democrat, said today. The measure’s cost is reaching well beyond the …