Obama is still coming after your wallet

We have the biggest tax grab and redistribution of wealth in the history of our nation. Even King George back in the day of our Founding Fathers did not tax the colonies like this and Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the rest of the Founding Fathers picked up arms and fought for their freedom over the taxes they had to endure.

Now we have this TRILLION dollar boondoggle of a spending bill on top of a TRILLION dollar boondoggle under G.W. Bush. Plus Obama says that we will probably need another TRILLION dollars sometime in the next 12 to 18 months. So 3 TRILLION dollars plus interest will have to be paid back by the American people.

How does Washington and state capitols plan on doing this? Raising taxes of all kinds. Now let me state something here. Make no mistake, no matter what it is called, such as FEE, USE FEE, REGISTRATION, et al. It is a TAX. If the proceeds go to the government, then by definition it is a tax.

So now we have Obama telling states they should increase their taxes to help pay for all of this government spending. A number of states are looking to increase or add toll to the roads you drive.

I know of two states so far, that are considering taxing the number of MILES you drive every year. You read that right. Massachusetts is looking to tax its residents by a reported penny or more per mile driven during a given year.

Now you may think that is not so bad. You drive 10 thousand miles in a year then you would pay $100 in extra tax. But what if you drive for work? You are a traveling sales person? Or your business is a delivery business? That will increase your annual tax rate tremendously. Of course all of that cost will be passed on to you the consumer.

Do you think a business can absorb $100 thousand dollars in increased fees per year without passing on the cost?

On top of that, Gov Patrick of MA is looking to raise its current gas tax. If he gets what he is asking for, it would mean that those in MA would pay a wopping 50 cents per gallon in state tax. That would be on top of the Federal gas tax. It would make the Commonwealth the most expensive gas tax in the nation.

State Capitols are not watching their spending. Washington is not watching its spending. Mayors and City and Town Managers are not watching their spending. So who has to pay for all of this? You and me in our taxes. So when you give the government more of your money, then that is less for you and your family. How hard is that to understand?

Your financial freedom is now under full all out assault. You see a part of liberty and freedom is to be secure in your own affects. If you cannot keep what you sweat and labor for, then you are not free, you have no liberty.

Let me repeat that for those of you have trouble with math. If you earn $1.00 and you have to pay out 60 cents of that dollar to the various governments in taxes, fees, tolls, etc. then that leaves you with only 40 cents to spend on your bills, home, savings and anything else you would want.

So let me see. You earn $1000 dollars and all you get to keep for yourself is $400 dollars. Is that what you really think is fair, even if you are a far left Liberal? How does that affect your ability to provide for your family if 60% or more of your income is going to the government to pay for others?

How can you keep your family free and secure is you can't earn and keep enough of your own money? This is a time for Americans to stand up against the government just like Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers did.

No, I don't mean pick up your gun and start a military civil war. But I do mean pay attention to what your local, state and Federal government is spending. Demand they stop spending. Vote for those who will spend and tax less. Get involved. Write and call your representatives about how you feel.

You can affect change if you speak up. You can affect change if you vote for those who will stop the spending insanity that is currently in office. Yes we can have a Revolution and it can be bloodless.

If we do not take this action then at some point our sons and daughters may actually have to pick up arms to spill blood to affect change. And that would be a damn shame since we have the opportunity right now to affect change with less pain.

Taxes are not governments money. Taxes are your money. You are the government. Or at least that is what the Founding Fathers intended. So if you get taxed to death, then it is your fault. As for me and my house, we will fight ever single tax we can. We will take ever legal measure under the Constitution to not pay taxes. We will put our leaders under a brightly light microscope on how, when and where they spend the taxes I do pay. You need to do the same. Every American has a Patriotic Duty to do the same.

To quote VP Biden, its time to Patriotic. Its time to help get America out of the rut. Its time to be part of the deal. Only this time I mean it to control government spending so that all Americans can keep more of its own money. After all, we all know how to spend our money a lot better than the government does. If you doubt that, then think about this.

Would you spend $160 for a hammer that you can pick up at the local hardware store for $20 bucks. Yea, I didn't think so. Well our government does and it has been documented over and over and over again. So you still want to keep giving them your hard earned money? Yea, I didn't think so.

Tax the fat.

This is for all of you who said that taxing and banning smoking was a good thing. Even though I don't smoke cigarettes, (I think they stink) I don't believe in telling someone in a free country what they can and cannot do pertaining to their health.

We have various cities all across the fruited plane banning trans fats in restaurants. You have Boston, banning Cigar Bars within city limits. You have smoking bans on private property. Now comes an idea out of New York State from the new governor there.

How about a tax on sugared soft drinks. But not a tax on diet drinks. How insane is this? Where do we live, the old Soviet Union? Who the hell do these people think they are?

Don't think for a moment this is going to stop here. The "correct" police will be coming after your food or vise soon enough.

I predicted this long ago. I said that there would be a time soon that some government agency or branch would seriously propose a "fat tax". Well low and behold, we have the Great Empire State Governor talking about just that.

Forget the fact that there is evidence that diet drinks are probably worse on your health than sugared drinks. It is a money grab plain and simple and you know who is going to suffer the most from this tax? The lower class. Yes, you got it. The very people the Liberals say we need to help by taking money from the rich and giving it to them.

Oh don't worry, the governor also has said that even though the state need to raise the extra cash, he also is going to propose a raise in welfare assistance payments. So there you go. They will give the people who drink soft drinks the most, the ability to pay for it by giving them more money so they can tax them at the cash register.

Now what do you think will happen when people drink less and less of sugared soft drinks? Will they cut the programs that these taxes will fund? Of course not. They will expand the tax to cover Snickers and Twinkies.

Listen. The Revolutionary war was started in part because of taxes. Now we have more taxes than George Washington and the Founding Fathers could of ever dreamed of. If you think they would go to war over the small taxes they had back then, what do you think they would do today if they were all alive?

First I dare say, they would have never let these idiots get elected. If they did get elected, they would have made sure that they didn't get re-elected.

A tax is one of the most freedom restricting things a government can do to its citizens without making laws (like prohibition) against such activities.

The people of NY need to stand up and say no to this kind of tax and to any other kind of new tax. We the people are taxed enough and we don't need the government telling us what to eat, drink, smoke, think, do or be. We have the sole right to those things.

Give me a break. This is the United States of America not the Soviet Socialist States of the Western Hemisphere.

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Mr. Snipes Goes to Jail

The nation, indeed the world, is all a buzz over the conviction and now three year prison sentence that actor Wesley Snipes received yesterday. I have a serious problem with this verdict and sentence and so should you.

First of all, Mr. Snipes was convicted by a jury. A jury of 12 Americans most of whom I am sure do not like paying their income taxes. Most of whom, I am sure, wish there was a way for them NOT to pay their income taxes and get away with it.

Yet these same people convicted Mr. Snipes of doing what they wish they could do. Now I am not advocating breaking the law but you have to ask yourself, how legal is the whole income tax system? Does not the IRS say filing is “voluntary”? If it is voluntary then why is Mr. Snipes guilty of not filing a return for three years?

Seems to me he volunteered not to file. Or has the IRS rewritten the definition of “voluntary” so that ordinary Americans do not know what it really means. I think that is the case since Mr. Snipes was said to have “willfully not filed” under a system that says it is only voluntary to file. Which is it? Are we compelled to file or do we really have the right to file only if we volunteer to do so?

Also, this is a full onslaught on race and wealth. Yes, Mr. Snipes is a high profile case in that he is rich, he is well known, he is black. All three play a part in this.

First understand that the black middle and upper class is growing leaps and bounds. Blacks are fast becoming a group that contributes greatly to the tax base of this nation and thus can start to think for themselves. They no longer are under the thumb of the US Government as wards of the state via welfare and other social programs.

This means that blacks must learn they still have their place and cannot be allowed to challenge the US Government in any regard.

Most people who do not file a tax return for three years would get a slap on the wrist, pay hefty penalties for any past due taxes and be on their merry little way. Mr. Snipes was a target and the Prosecution even said point blank they wanted to make an example of Mr. Snipes.

Did they need to make an example of him? Haven't countless other high and mid level profile cases served to do this? One would think so, yet Mr. Snipes is arguably the first black high profile case. Look around, millions of people, black, white, red, yellow, are getting rich in this country. It is estimated that the USA will have over 10 million millionaires by the year 2010.

That is a lot of money. A lot of that money will be in the hands of minorities. Minorities that once used to be relegated to low wages and government assistance. The government is making an example of Mr. Snipes simply because they can, not because it is the right thing to do.

This has a direct impact on your liberty and freedom. With every case like this, juries are giving the government more and more power to take your money. This verdict and sentence basically states that the money YOU earn is not yours. All money belongs to the government and what you get to keep is what the government is so kind and generous to let you keep.

Why else do the Liberals play class warfare to the hilt. It is to get their hands on your money. Remember history tells us a tax on the rich is only a delayed tax on every one else. The Alternative Income Tax should be a hard lesson to us all. This tax or otherwise known as the AMT, was intended to get rich people to pay at least some income tax. Well, this tax has started to hit every day middle class Americans. As it was intended.

Don't think for a minute that it was not intended to hit you or me in the middle class. Look at the Capitol Gains tax. Yes they said it was to hit the rich when they make a killing on stocks or real estate but who did it hit the most and the hardest? The middle class especially when they retired and began cashing in on their retirement stock plans or they sold their home.

Americans began to see that the rich were now them even though they were not rich. You thought it would have been a wake up call. But the Liberals put a clever spin on such things and we still have many of the taxes that were “intended” for the rich but now hit the middle class.

Income taxes was not something the Founding Fathers of our nation thought was a proper way to fund a government. Wealth taxes, which is what income taxes are, were the bane of the old world. Part of the reason our Founding Fathers went to war was because of taxes.

You think Mr. Snipes got what he deserved? I tell you it can and will happen to you or someone you know and care about. Your freedom and liberty are held hostage by high taxes. You are a slave to the government and if you think you are not, then look at Mr. Snipes. Look at others who now find that even though they have money and power, the government has more of both.

When you vote for someone who plays the class or race card you are inviting danger and you are putting your freedom and liberty in jeopardy.

Stop. Think. Vote!

Taxes are the Tyranny of the Liberals, and they get caught up with them too

Taxes are all the rage these days. Actually, taxes have been all the rage for centuries. People from across the planet in just about every modern (and pre-modern) century have decried about taxes. From the high taxes and levies from ancient China to the unfair taxation that lead to the American Revolution, taxes have moved people to action in order to stop the tyranny

Well, now we have a new kind of tyranny One in which moved enough of our Founding Fathers to take action. But now we have a problem. We have high taxes again and this time the powers that be don't see a need to reduce them, change them or make them more fair and respectable.

In fact we have a significant number who think that we are not paying enough in taxes. But that is not where this post is going. We all know how taxes force millions of families to work harder and longer than they should just to make ends meet. Well, OK so there are other reasons for the current economic woes including people biting off more than they can chew economically.

But that is what happens when you build an economy on taxes and spending. The citizens take a cue from their government. Our government wants more money so it taxes us. They use that money to spend and spend and spend. In fact, our governments need for cash is so huge that they will take something that does not belong to them.

Our government will tax us on everything. And if we don't pay what they say we have to pay, then they can put us in jail, make us pay ridiculous penalties and fees and even take what belongs to us.

It seems that Aretha Franklin is about to lose her home to property taxes. Yes I know. She is not all that different from many other stars of history that have built up a huge sum in back taxes. Well not in this case. Reports indicate that the Queen of Soul could lose her $700,000 home for about$1,000 in back property taxes. And the reports go around the world which makes the US look like stupid over taxed imbeciles

Before you run off and say too bad for the rich, think about this. Your neighbor, your parents or grandparents, even you could lose your home for the same amount or less.

You pay for something with all your hard work. You spend thousands of dollars in maintenance, improvements, etc. Then a Sheriff Deputy shows up at your door one day and says for less than a months wages you will lose your home. The government is going to take it, auction it and let someone else have it for about the same amount you paid your lawyer to help you buy the place.

Come on, that makes no sense. It has nothing to do with the fact that she or you did not pay a few hundred dollars in taxes on your property. The fact is, government spend so much that they need your money no matter how they get it, they will get it.

So in reality, you own nothing. The government owns everything. Even after you pay for it and care for it and improve it, the government can still take it should you decide to or be unable to pay a few bucks in taxes in order to keep it.

You may think I am being a little alarmist but how many times have you heard about someone losing their car or collections or other possessions do to unpaid or back income taxes? This is just proof that even what you own, you really do not own.

I know that any government can get their money through other means but they chose to take peoples possessions. Possessions in which they worked hard to get. Your home is no different. You pay thousands of dollars over the years, maybe even a million or so after you pay all the interest and the government can just step in take it, and then kick you out? How fair is that for anyone? A $700,000 home for less than 2 grand?

This is the very thing that our Founding Fathers would not stand for. This is the sort of thing they would rail against and even take up arms. I am not saying we need to take up guns and take on our government. Indeed not.

We have the ability to vote for the people who will do what is fair and right. But if you keep voting for people who will tax the hell out of you and then take your stuff should you be unable to pay those taxes, then you deserve to lose your stuff.

Undoubtedly, Miss Franklin is a Democrat Liberal. So she is now reaping the rewards of her vote since Liberals tend to be the biggest tax and spend people in our nation. But no matter what party your candidate belongs to, you need to make them understand that this sort of tyranny will not be tolerated.

Your possessions are yours. You paid for them. Taxing them forever is not right, it is not moral and taking them for a fraction of their value is nothing short of steeling. You or I would be locked up for doing what the government is doing.

This election season we need to tell the politicians, it's my money and I should get to keep it.

Hope and Change are Empty Liberal Programs

It looks like HOPE is alive and well. The Obama Hope Train is pulling into Texas and Ohio and it looks like it is leading the Clinton Train. But stop for a moment. Are you like me on this hope train? I hate it.

It is empty rhetoric and means nothing. I take that back. When someone starts preaching “hope” instead of giving you the details of what they want to do, you better hold on to your wallet. Better still, you better hide your wallet because they, the hope mongers, are coming for your hard earned money.

Have you noticed a very loud silence on the details of what Barack would do if he is elected to office? This is not by accident. The Obama camp knows exactly what his hope will bring to the whole of America. Higher taxes and bigger, much bigger government.

Although this is not the first time hope has been bandied about as a slogan but it has taken on new meaning of late. In fact it is the twin of change. You hear all about how America needs a change. A change in what direction? A change to what? I ask the question, what kind of change? The answer I get back is silence. Silence that is ear shattering.

Change and Hope, the twins that devastate a nation without rhyme nor reason because those who peddles such notions refuse to let us know what kind of change and what kind of hope they are selling us. They hide behind beautiful speeches that move you to tears but in the end, when you actually take the time to study what they said, you realize they actually said NOTHING.

Obama said in one of his speeches, “Yes we can.” He repeated that line again and again. But when you listen to that speech again and take the emotion and background noise out, you realize he didn't say a damned thing. But all of his speeches are empty. They lack true substance. They lack substance is because if he were to tell you exactly what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it, nobody but the hard core left would vote for him.

This is true of Clinton as well. Although she tells us a bit more in detail what she would do if elected, we are still left with rhetoric that reaches higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago. The big problem is the major media lets these people get away with giving us empty speeches. The media gives them a pass on having to detail everything in their platform. Yet when a conservative tries to get away with empty promises, they are called out on the mat.

Raise taxes? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you offer hope of a better tomorrow through government programs. Grow government bigger? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you see a new day where every person has an equal opportunity – an equal opportunity to access government services. Reduce their freedom? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you believe that everyone has a right to everything in life and that it is unfair if some have better choices than others. Tell them you will make sure everyone has the same choice as everyone else. In other worlds, no choice at all.

When you break it down, what you find in all the words of Hope and Change, from Jesse Jackson in the 80's to Bill Clinton in the 90's to Barack Obama in this decade, is empty rhetoric with nothing but higher taxes, less freedom and no choice. Hope and change are not political programs. At least not unless you are a left wing nut liberal. But for the sane majority, hope and change equals despair and devastation.

Could it be the change we need is a change from the liberal left? Could it be that our true hope lay in reverting back to the original intent of our Founding Fathers and our Constitution. Could it be that the road to glory is paved in personal responsibility?

Yes, I guess I agree, empty promises of change and hope are much more palatable. At least until we look into our wallets and see nothing but lint. The same emptiness we have with all of this hope and change rhetoric.

Sunday Brief 2 10 2008

Barack is on a roll or is he? It looks like Obama swept the 5 state primary/caucus yesterday. But did he really make gains on Hillary on the delegate count? Yes and no. There were not a whole lot of delegates up for grabs but since the two Democrats are nearly even in the count, every single delegate is going to count.

Next big steps will be in the states of Texas, Ohio and PA. But can Obama pick up those states? Can he win? Some polls suggest that if Obama were the Democrat nominee, that he would beat McCain.

Other polls suggest that Obama's lack of being specific about anything will hurt him in the general election because he has a very small record to lean back on. McCain has a huge record and that record seems to harm him when it comes to conservatives. But this is where Obama will have a tough time as well.

He will need to get specific about his plans. Inspiring and pretty speeches will not cut it when you have an opponent who presses you for specifics. Obama has not had to deal with that yet. Clinton won't press Obama on specifics for fear of having to give greater details on her own plans.

The who strategy here is, less is more for now. These Democrats are afraid to let you know there specific plans. Why? Remember a decade ago when Hillary was trying to get Hillary-care passed? Americans got the details and said no with a loud and deep voice.

She and Obama know that if they get specific on their plans, the American people will run away again. This is where a good strong Republican can win. McCain, despite his own liberal record, can win over conservatives and independents simply by getting Hillary and Barack to get specific about their plans and policies. Until that happens, we will have more flowery speeches and rallies by the two Democrats. there won't be anything relevant.
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• The wealthiest 1%, in 2003, earned 14% of the income and paid 35% of all individual income taxes.

• By comparison, the bottom 60% of all taxpayers earn 28% of all income and pay just 1% of all individual income taxes.

This should dispel the notion that the rich don't pay their fair share or that the rich need to pay more in taxes. We already know that the higher income earners help the economy and those at the lower end of the economy as well.

Many people who earn under $36,$15per year do so in an industry that caters to those who earn more than $150,000 per year. These high earners buy stuff. They buy lots of stuff. They get services. They get lots of services. So people who sell or service the high earners depend on those high earners to spend that money. If they don't have as much money because of higher taxes then those people who depend on them will suffer and they will suffer big time.

How do you keep the economy going strong? Simple, you first cut the taxes on the people who have the money to spend. Then you cut the taxes on every other economic group that pays taxes. When people have money to spend, they will spend it and those people on the lower end of the economic ladder will benefit and will not need government services as much or at all.

Now do the Democrats really want to help the "less fortunate" or do they just want to pay lip service? You be the judge.
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Waterboarding continues to be a hot topic on the political landscape. The UN (and we all know how reputable and fair the UN is) says that waterboarding is torture and needs to be halted in the USA.

The media has been focusing on this issue for months as well. Obviously, the media in general is against waterboarding. Why? Simply because it works without harming the individual being questioned. But many Americans, if you ask them, will tell you they are against waterboarding. Ask those same Americans if they know exactly what it is and they cannot tell you except they heard it was something bad.

I'm here to tell you that I have found out what this form of interrogation is and found it to not be torture at all. Interrogation is nothing but a mind game anyway and waterbording is a form of a mind game. If it gets people to talk and it does not physically harm another the person being interrogated, then it should be used.

Waterboarding, if done properly is a good, none lethal, non harmful way to extract information from an individual. And waterboarding has been proven to be far less harmful mentally than other forms of interrogation such as sensory deprivation.

Want to know more about waterbording? Go here:
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