As the rednecks down here in the South say, “Who’d have thunk it?”
About a year and a half ago we saw the beginning of the 9/12 and Tea Party movements. We were accused of being ‘astro-turf’, racist, trouble making folks inciting to riot and social unrest. In actuality, we were people who recognized incompetence and arrogance in our elected officials who were seemingly bent on installing a Socialist – Marxist government. We were appalled by the misdirected ‘stimulus’ and bail-out programs and growing power of big government and unions. We were dismayed by the increasing manipulation of Obama’s ‘Chicago’ politics and cronies. The disrespect of our Armed Forces, misuse of our Judicial System, failed Middle East policies, continued high unemployment and a poorly conceived and unconstitutional HealthCare program only made us more determined to increase our efforts. We evidenced a fiscal and housing policy compiled overnight that will take us years with undue hardships from which to recover. We saw an immigration policy completely in disarray with the administration pandering for latino votes and, of course, an increased pandering for gay and lesbian votes.
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Talk of tax cuts fills the air, which means the Left is getting fidgety. They’ve been forced to change from delirious big spenders who see a billion dollars as a rounding error, into flinty-eyed deficit hawks who insist raising taxes to reduce our massive budget deficit is the only responsible course of action. The speed of this transformation has left them dizzy. Consider these quotes from President Obama’s town hall meeting last Monday: Read More→
I don’t know why this surprises me.
I guess I expect the President of The United States to understand the importance of each and every word of The Declaration of Independence AND The Constitution. Apparently, neither one is on his reading list.
Just a suggestion, maybe if he skipped a round of golf every now and then, he’d have enough time to brush up on the documents that founded our Country. It may not improve his golf game, but it might improve his leadership.
President Obama “unveiled” his new “stimulus” plan in Wisconsin today. It was a lot like watching an alcoholic unveil his new plan to get sober by switching to lite beer:
We’re going to “fire up sluggish economic growth” by plowing another fifty billion deficit dollars into roads, rail, and airports? It’s hard to believe even the American media would be lazy enough to write such a headline with a straight face.
Does anyone seriously think our economy is just waiting for another fifty billion dollars’ worth of roads to come roaring back to life? I guess business owners have all sorts of property staked out for new factories and shops. They’re just waiting for someone to build roads leading to them. Does all of this Administration’s economic knowledge come from playing “Sim City” computer games?
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Back in the early part of 2010 when I was putting together the concept of TeaPartyConnect.com, I decided that other voices should be included and promoted. My thinking was that having other writers contribute to the site would add variety as well as expand the material presented from areas I wasn’t necessarily investigating.
I was using a tool called FeedDemon to subscribe to various conservative blogs and news sources (I can highly recommend FeedDemon, so get it!). In the previous year, I subscribed to many RSS feeds and I sorted through the wheat and chaff by identifying the sources where the best articles originated. That process produced a short list of great bloggers who I now follow on a daily basis.
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In his book “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962) Milton Friedman (1912-2006) advocated minimizing the role of government in a free market as a means of creating political and social freedom.
An excerpt from an interview with Phil Donahue in 1979.
Caroline Baum posted a great article on Bloomberg.com on August 15th, 2010 and it is instructive.
First, she reminds each of us that We, The People give Congress the power to levy and collect taxes. However:
There’s nothing in there about carving out special exemptions for certain individuals or groups; about using tax credits to achieve socially desirable outcomes, such as getting married and having children; or about doling out earmarks in an implicit exchange for campaign contributions.
How can we get Congress out of the tax-favor business?
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Today on WMOX, we discussed the History Channel’s new show, Jefferson. One of the many interesting facts about the author of the Declaration of Independence was the three accomplishments he was proud of that he had placed on his tombstone. They are (1) The Declaration of Independence, (2) the Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom and (3) Founding of the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom is powerful and short. Its preamble is in the style of the Declaration and worth reading. I have provided a link or check out this short but powerful prose.
The letter declining an invitation to attend a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is also very powerful. This phrase about the 4th is something we should all remember each year: “For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” For full text of the letter to Roger Weightman.
Be sure watch or DVR this show when it comes again on the History Channel. In the mean time checkout some the material the History Channel has pulled together on our most thoughtful Founder.
- The Professor
Words mean things and Reagan said them better than anyone else.
H/T: Breitbart.tv
The Tax Foundation has launched a Bush-era tax cuts calculator at www.MyTaxBurden.org, which allows taxpayers to compare their 2011 federal income tax liabilities under three scenarios: if all the Bush-era tax cuts expire completely at the end of this year, if they’re all extended into 2011 or made permanent, and if President Obama’s budget is adopted, which includes a combination of expirations and extensions.
Check it out here: http://www.mytaxburden.org
Although this is just a tax estimator, it purports to show how you will fare under the three potential scenarios described above.
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Set against the backdrop of today’s headline – 67% of Americans don’t approve of Obama’s economic policies, the film takes a provocative look at our deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Reagan and Obama and shows the marked contrast between Reaganomics and Obamanomics. The film contrasts two views of the role that the federal government should play in our daily lives using the words and actions of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
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Londoner Pat Condell states what we all should know about the mosque at Ground Zero.
On October 31, 2008, I sent out a letter to many of my friends regarding the upcoming Presidential Election. Although my expressed hope that the American People could see through the charade was proven wrong, I feel that with the November 2nd, 2010 election just around the corner, the letter deserves to re-read. I made several predictions in the letter that did come true and I stated my beliefs in a way that surprises me today considering that it was written prior to my involvment in Tea Parties (although I’m pretty sure the letter is a good indication of why I got involved in them in the first place). I’m proud to say that I had a pretty good grasp of the situation and my own beliefs in Freedom and the Constitution. We’ve all come a long way through this and we’ve all learned a lot.
Read this letter for what it is: the musings of an American Citizen concerned about the future given what was known then about the potential of an Obama Administration.
My Friends,
I freely admit that I am fearful of what might happen on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. As a business owner, if Barack Obama wins, my taxes are going to go up even if he does nothing but allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. As a Christian, I am concerned because Obama has stated without hestitation that his first order of business will be to strike down every State law against abortion and have the Federal government become the central authority in family planning and population control. As a radio personality, I am frightened by the re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine which like many laws has been severly mis-named and will do anything but provide fairness and instead will stop free speech in its tracks. As an individual, I am scared that the new levels of taxation on small businesses everywhere will cause the economy to contract and will impact my ability to earn a living by working for myself. As an American, I am worried that as Joe Biden has pointed out, Obama will be tested and many Americans could lose their lives in that test and many more could lose their lives trying to repair the damage done by his inexperience.
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In the course of reading an article questioning whether we should tax the rich, I saw that the author provided a link to a blog article which included some really interesting tax ideas. Although it was originally written in 2002, I still found it interesting enough to share. Below are the key points, but I highly encourage you to click on the link at the bottom and read the rest of the article. Come back here when you are done and post your comments and thoughts.
The Jane Galt Tax Plan
Fritz Schrank asks how we should simplify taxes. Well, here’s the Jane Galt version, guaranteed to please no one but its author:
1) Get rid of all our poverty programs, except those aimed at the disabled, and temporary unemployment assistance, and institute the negative income tax. That is to say, the system should be continuously progressive, from a steep negative rate of up to 100% on very low earners, gradually declining until it zeroes out around $28,000 a year, and then rising gradually until it maxes out around 35% on the top brackets.
2) Eliminate FICA and pay for Social Security and Medicare out of general revenue. It’s time to stop pretending it’s a pension system, when there are no assets in the “trust fund”
3) Eliminate the corporate income tax
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“I think the strategy was to bring in a huge number of people, overwhelm the system, and in the chaos that ensued they can steal the election…” Dr. Linda Hayes
Some months back I wrote a
series of articles about the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats’ flagrant defiance of the popular will. At the time, I mused that either they have become politically suicidal, or they know something that we don’t.
Now, this crop of Congressional Democrats is the most corrupt, seditious, self-serving bunch of scumbags to ever stain the halls of Congress, and that’s saying something! To imagine that they would suddenly flip and fall on their swords – sacrificing their political futures to heroically pass unpopular legislation – strains credibility to say the least.
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