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Taxes – By Ray Stevens

Lady Kathleen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:45:35 +0000

I ran across this video about taxes, and thought it would be a great one to post for a great laugh. And just think the best part about it, this country was started because people got tired of high taxes.

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Thank You President Obama

RodZ — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:22:08 +0000

Mr. President, you were amused and said we should be thanking you for cutting our taxes. Let me be amongst the first to thank you for allowing me to keep $13 dollars a month of my own money. It is going a long ways to making my life a lot easier. It has allowed me to purchase many of the things I have always wanted but could never afford. Why I can even purchase an extra 4.9 gallons of gas each and every month if the price doesn’t surpass $2.65 a gallon.
I am glad you are amused by the fact that you think we common people don’t realize what a monetary boon this was for us. I know that when you make upwards of $5 million dollars a year you can appreciate how much a $13 dollars month means to most of us. You certainly relate well to how hard it is to get from month to month on such a small amount of income.

Actually I would also like to thank you and the Congressional leadership for quadrupling the national debt and increasing our deficit with all the helpful programs you are implementing to guide us through our lives. I don’t know how I got to be this old without all the guidance from my government. I am so glad that you and Congress passed the stimulus bill and have spent the money in such productive ways, it thrills me to see the weekly unemployment number at over 450k each and every week. That 10% unemployment number is just a testament to how well that program worked.

The size of our government and the control it exercises just sends chills down my spine as I envision all the problems it is going to solve in the future. I admire all the forward thinking you and our leaders have put into taking control of our nations businesses and how well you are doing controlling the unions. Thank you for all of that. I cannot wait for the Cap and Trade, Finance Reform and all the other bills in the house to make it into law. This is going to increase our debt to levels that insure the success of our country,

Thank you so much.

RodZ

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Why New Jobs Bill? Last Stimulus Is NOT Working

RodZ — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:37:10 +0000

Ok folks lets get real. We hear how the stimulus has saved 2 million jobs and yet once again the latest jobs report says we just lost another 500 thousand jobs. What a bunch of crap. If you look at the big stimulus bill you will find a bunch on non job producing spending period. High speed internet for rural areas does not create permanent jobs. Studies and research for green technology does not create jobs. I have detailed many such items in previous posts. Government spending does not create jobs. Government spending on these levels only creates deficits and debt.
I have had conversations with some of you about the benefits of these policies. Many of you tell me that by putting money in the hands of people through extending unemployment benefits puts money into the economy. It does and it helps the unemployed for a short time. In addition one reader provided a link to an analysis by Mark Zandi Chief Economist at Moody’s Economy.com, published in Jan of 2009. I have read this report and now a year later I still think he got it wrong. Here was one prediction that I think will not occur “The House stimulus plan will not reverse the current recession, but it will provide a vital boost to the flagging economy. With the stimulus, there will be 4 million more jobs and the jobless rate will be more than 2 percentage points lower by the end of 2010 than without any fiscal stimulus. Without stimulus, unemployment will rise well into the double digits by this time next year, and the economy will not return to full employment until 2014.”
The unemployment rate is growing and certainly not be a full 2 percentage points lower by the end of the year. Full employment is not achievable by 2014 considering we need thousands of jobs a year just to employ new people entering the job market for the first time. He is right in his assessment that the plan will not reverse the current recession in fact I believe it will extend it long term. The more money the government borrows means less money available for private investment and growth. Private investment creates new business, expansion of existing business and JOBS.
We are faced with increasing taxes. The President has stated he gave 95% percent of us a tax cut. I won’t argue this but I will say that cut will be offset by the expiring of the Bush tax cuts next year. If you look at all the legislation you will find some tax relief to business but you will also find enormous tax increases in these bills. The state and federal governments are increasing consumption taxes. They are in the health care bill they are in the form of fees and taxes at the local and state levels. everything you buy or use seems to have a tax buried in it.
I know that if we continue to spend at this rate without regard to the long term consequences we will have an economic crisis worse that what we are experiencing currently. This government needs to look at the entire federal budget and reduce the cost of these programs. I don’t mind paying taxes, I don’t like paying taxes for social agenda items that we cannot sustain because the money is always spent on other things. Pay Go is a good idea but I don’t believe it will work without spending cuts, extreme spending cuts.

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Taxes explained in the billions

Lady Kathleen — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:35:26 +0000

How many zeros are in a billion???

This is too true to be funny. The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were Living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government Is spending.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain…let’s take a look at New Orleans ..It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), Is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS To rebuild New Orleans .

Interesting number… What does it mean?

A. Well… If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) You each get $516,528.

B. Or…. If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or…. If you are a family of four, Your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, DC: HELLO!

Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Gift Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago… And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt… We had the largest middle class in the world… and Mom stayed home to raise the kids .

What happened? Can you spell ‘politicians!’

And .. I still have to press ’1′ for English.

I hope this gets at least a billion views!!!

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OUR CONGRESS AT WORK

Lady Kathleen — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:24:30 +0000

This is one of their THREE-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

Two play solitaire; the guy sitting in front of these two… he’s on Facebook, and the guy behind them is checking out the baseball scores.

Should we buy them larger screen computers – or – a ticket home, permanently?

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Cap and Trade, Health Care Reform: Big Scams of the Century

RodZ — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:02:49 +0000

While we are all focused on the healthcare issue, the house passed The Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 and the Senate released its version of the bill named the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Most of us are unaware that these bills are not about creating green jobs, providing energy security and reducing pollution. Cap and Trade is a complex energy tax, period. It will affect all levels of production and economic activity in this country. The current leadership in this country has several agenda items it wants to impose on the citizens of this country, all designed to cost we the people more in taxes, remove more freedoms and expand government control.

I am perplexed by why anyone would want to pay more in taxes and want to have the government involved in our lives anymore than it already is. If you just look at the healthcare bills floating through the system you would realize they do nothing to lower our cost of medical care and they put the government in control of a major portion of the economy. If you look at the stimulus package you will see it has done nothing to create jobs. If you look at all the deals cut with the banks, unions, insurance companies and on and on you must ask yourself where is the help for the average citizen?

I keep hearing that we need to be more like the rest of the world, why? What made America the economic giant it used to be? Could it be a free market place? If you ask yourself, will the major energy suppliers of the world just go out of business when the oil runs out or will they be producing alternate energy? My answer would be that they will shift to the most profitable source of energy available and do it very well without any government interference (help).

Why would we want to be like the rest of the world when we have set the standard. One can make the argument that times have changed, it is a world market. I agree with that statement but would add, get the government out of the way and let us compete without handicapping us.

The truth is that people are like crabs in a bucket, if one is almost out the rest pull him back down. Don’t you think we should be out performing everyone else and not settling for being like everyone else?

I am sick and tired of hearing everyone blaming Bush, get over it, he’s gone. Why don’t we focus on fixing what is broken instead of fixing blame. Bush didn’t break healthcare or the climate or many other things we are having to deal with. If we have leadership that truly wants to give us change we can believe in, give us change that will enable us to be successful and not make us wards of the state.

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More Healthcare and Stimulus! Pelosi, Reed and Obama ruining the Economy!

RodZ — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:35:14 +0000

Well I took a week off to clear my mind, now I’m back and my brain is ready to explode. What are they thinking in Washington? The healthcare bills are exploding with cost. From what I can see the end results will further bloat the budget and debt of this country.

The stimulus is doing nothing to lower unemployment and is being spent in an irresponsible manner. The question is, what are we getting for our taxes?

I strongly suspect that those of us who pay taxes and have a good health insurance plan, will in fact, pay higher taxes and have a more expensive healthcare plan. It will also contain fewer benefits. Nice job Washington! I just want to scream. It seems to me that our wonderful leaders are bent on power and control. I listened to Speaker Pelosi give a little speech after the defense appropriations bill was past. It contained a little item that had nothing to do with the defense bill, but was forced through because no one want to cut off the financial support to our troops. Yes it was another social agenda item that had no business in the defense appropriations bill.

Pelosi stated in her speech that when she came to POWER this was an item high on her AGENDA! While we may have needed to afford these folks additional protections under the law, the defense appropriations bill was not the place to do it.

I wonder if Pelosi is driven by her obsession with POWER and an AGENDA. Perhaps she should realize that it is a privilege and an honer to represent the people of her district. Perhaps she should realize that she is not the queen of Washington.

I don’t know what our leadership is trying to do. Perhaps they should pull their heads out, open their eyes, clean out their ears, look around and listen to what “we the people” are saying. Perhaps they should stay out of the business of business and focus on creating an atmosphere where business could flourish and we the people can find jobs.

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Obama shuns FOX, Angry at Stephanopoulos

RodZ — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:43:46 +0000

Obama shuns Fox and runs into Stephanopoulos on ABC. Obama, Seeking media safe havens to promote (sell) his health care plan on sunday, ran into some resistance from George Stephanopoulos on ABC. Well I guess even the liberal news media can provide some surprises! Was that anger, frustration, or just a “parent” scolding a child I saw in Obama’s response?

I just don’t understand the rush to pass a bill that no one understands or can pay for. In the normal process of moving a bill through the legislature there a months of hearings, expert testimony, and legislators gather data, committees review and the bill is debated on the floor. What’s the rush on health care? none of the aforementioned has occurred on HR3200. How can six legislators have enough expertise to generate such a complex bill such as HR3200? Where were the public hearings? Where is the floor debate? Where is the cost analysis? Where is full disclosure to the American people? I spent the weekend reading HR3200, wow! I am not claiming to understand most of what I read, “THAT” is the problem, I don’t think most people can understand something this complex, including President Obama or the authors of the bill, Mr Rangle, Waxman, Miller, Stark, Pallone, and Andrews. This may explain why President Obama could not answer Stephanopoulos’s question about fines vs taxes. I don’t believe the President has read a one thousand page bill.

You also have to ask yourself which proposed health care bill are they referring to at any given point in the debate, there seem to be at least five floating around. These bills are in various stages of completion, but further add to the confusion. Until there is a comprehensive review of “WHY” the cost of health care is so expensive and the cost drivers are identified, no one can fix the problem.

This Administration and a majority of congress are rushing into chaos, trying to legislate a morals issue instead of legislating a true fix for health care.

It seems that the lights are coming on in some offices of the liberal news media and even some of them are beginning to question this administration on some of the details, questions the administration cannot answer.

So far the net result is that any liberal newsperson asking hard questions is branded a “JUDAS”

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