Archive for 'Taxes' Category
The Big Lie of 2008, Change Will Happen
22 January 2008Clearly the theme of this election cycle is change. A year ago I would have said security. But the American people want change, at least that is what our candidates keep telling us. We need change and they can deliver it.
I doubt it. First none of them are talking about the […]
The New Farm Bill Will Cost You 22 Hours of Your Labor
17 December 2007The Senate just passed a Farm Bill that will cost $286,000,000,000. Now there are roughly 100,000,000 active taxpayers in this country, defined by me as people who pay IRS taxes. If you are in the roughly 30% that don’t pay income taxes I am not counting you.
This is a 5 year bill and […]
Rights We Should Have
13 December 20071) Right Of Referendum
The citizens shall have the right by petition to create and change existing laws.
2) Spending Cap
Spending shall not be increased such that total spending is greater than 3% of the citizens wealth. This includes all expenditures of state government including all those off budget items.
3) Read The Bill
All bills shall be […]
The US Dollar’s Fall May Bankrupt Airbus And You Should Care
26 November 2007Now this is not great news. The engines are made by Pratt and Whitney.
This industry is priced in dollars, the Airbus A380 was sold at $300 million retail price for the double-decker super jumbo. That $300 million is now, $255. A 15% loss.
This may result in massive layoffs in Europe and a […]
Who Benefits From Rising Gas Prices?
20 November 2007Is it any wonder we just can’t seem to find a solution to higher gas prices?
Last — but by no means least -– is the sizeable chunk of gasoline spending that goes to your government, the second biggest beneficiary of rising gasoline prices. First, you pay 18.4 cents a gallon in federal excise tax. States […]
Gas Tax By State
22 October 2007U.S. Gasoline Taxes by Descending Tax Rates, as of Jan 06. We did have another “bump” in our fair share of taxes on the July 1st. And according to WTNH we could see another 8% in increases over the next 7 years. Remember we did have a surplus this year and last […]
Tax Bill Due, $9,815,000,000,000.00, Pay Up Slacker
2 October 2007That’s $30,000 per citizen, not voter. The national debt has been rising by an average of $1.36 billion per day since September of last year.
I have to wonder if this A reason why our dollar is dropping in value against all the other world currencies. I know the sub-prime lender market is a […]
Abolish the Incomes Taxes (IV): The Fair Tax
26 September 2007The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality.
The income tax is holding us back and making […]
Abolish the Income Taxes: Privacy (III)
19 September 2007Our privacy especially our financial records are being breached and given out to Eastern European Mafias at an ever increasing rate.
One of the largest sources of financial data to the Eastern Mafias is our Government. Having been forced to reveal our most intimate financial details to assure our public_servants that we are indeed paying […]
Abolish the Federal Income Tax and stop class warfare (II)
18 September 2007What passes for debate on Taxes nowadays quickly descends into an argument on “if the rich are paying their fair share”, or “should we raise the taxes on those who can afford it the most”.
This is a diversion tactic to take our limited attention spans away from what should be the true debate, on the […]