chuckwellborn https://www.chuckwellborn.com/ Chuck Wellborn Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:10:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.chuckwellborn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 chuckwellborn https://www.chuckwellborn.com/ 32 32 161369751 Taxing Social Security Payments https://www.chuckwellborn.com/taxing-social-security-payments/ https://www.chuckwellborn.com/taxing-social-security-payments/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:10:29 +0000 https://www.chuckwellborn.com/?p=428 Well-meaning proposals to change tax law are sometimes made without knowledge or consideration of their ramifications. A dozen years ago, I was one of the founders of the non-partisan New Mexico Tax Research Institute expressly because lawmakers needed to be made aware of the ramifications of proposed tax law changes. Over the years, its programs…

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]]> https://www.chuckwellborn.com/taxing-social-security-payments/feed/ 0 428 Give It Your Best Shot https://www.chuckwellborn.com/give-it-your-best-shot/ https://www.chuckwellborn.com/give-it-your-best-shot/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:07:21 +0000 https://www.chuckwellborn.com/?p=419 It’s pretty disappointing that the diminishing number of Republicans going all out for the President (e.g., Rep. Mark Meadows, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Rand Paul) lack imagination in their efforts to discredit the impeachment effort. Why keep blaming the Bidens, George Soros, the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration and the…

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]]> https://www.chuckwellborn.com/give-it-your-best-shot/feed/ 0 419 Kellyanne https://www.chuckwellborn.com/kellyanne/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:05:46 +0000 http://www.chuckwellborn.fruitstand.tech/?p=219 A mouthpiece who talks to the max Quite like the guy that she backs She’s not any nicer Than her colleague Sean Spicer But she’s better at alternate facts

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]]> 219 The Enemy of My Enemy https://www.chuckwellborn.com/lorem-ipsum/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:15:58 +0000 http://www.chuckwellborn.fruitstand.tech/?p=224 We’ve all heard the 2400 year-old doctrine “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. It was used extensively during the Cold War. But I’m not sure the President-Elect got this quite right in the case of President Putin. Mr. Trump seems to have cut out the middle-man and streamlined it to “The enemy is…

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]]> 224 The GOP Debate https://www.chuckwellborn.com/the-gop-debate/ Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:13:10 +0000 http://www.chuckwellborn.fruitstand.tech/?p=241 The Republican Presidential candidates are complaining about the types of questions they received at the last debate and are threatening to set their own debate rules. To help out, here are some questions they might be looking for: QUESTION 1: What is your favorite color? QUESTION 2: Who was your favorite teacher? QUESTION 3: What…

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