All Blog Posts Tagged 'political' (76)

I am pleased so many of you have expressed your opinions about the four Principles Based Taxes papers I posted. Your comments have been both of concern and of great interest to me. I may have raised the blood pressure of many of you. For this I am concerned as I wish no one harm. I am certainly not upset by your (mostly negative) comments, since anything as emotional as “taxes” is bound to evoke strong feelings. Unfortunately, I do not have time to respond to…

Summary: Two new taxes are proposed to replace present business taxes. A small flat tax assures businesses pay for general benefits they receive from publically financed functions. A value added tax (VAT) that is zero or small for value added within the U.S. and higher for value added offshore will drive investments and jobs to the U.S. and keep U.S. businesses globally competitive.

Taxes and other costs, i.e., regulations, entitlement mandates,…

Mr. Buffet is smart. He is smart enough to propose a new tax for “millionaires and billionaires” that he and many others likely will not have to pay. Buffet’s joke is on us, and President Obama is using this tax joke to garner votes through class warfare. Here’s why Buffet will not pay more taxes.

Mr. Buffet’s $46B wealth has been amassed through his company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. that has only paid out dividends once in its history. So, Mr. Buffet does not receive dividend income…

Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, is not a messianic political leader for the Czechs who were driven out of their homeland by the Nazis and communists. These exiles do not identify with his "moral" and political profile.

In fact, the participants in the…

Inverse Chronological Order Ending July 31, 2012

• Ridiculous Deficit/Debt Rhetoric & Senate Vote July 25, 2012
• Are Businesses and the Wealthy…

It has been all over the news - states enacting new voter ID requirements.  For most of us, the possiblity that the state we live in would enact a voter ID requirement probably does not even create a ripple in our pond.  Not so for the organized labor and Occupy Wall St. 

The newest state to hit the news with a new stricter voter ID law is Pennsylvannia and Lord help us the…

Politicians’ deficits and debt proposals lack credibility but provide (false) hope for many uninformed citizens.

Proposed Tax Increases and Spending Cuts Facts:

Every political season is filled with political rhetoric, media sound bites, and misinformation. This season is…

Our citizenry has been lead to believe by politicians that businesses and the wealthy are “bad greedy citizens” because they have too much power and receive special treatment. This works out nicely for the politicians since it provides food for their rhetoric. But is this conclusion true or false? The answer is “false.” The argument is up side down.

 Politicians in return for favors and money (bribes) bestow power and special treatment to businesses and the wealthy. The politicians…

Our citizenry has been lead to believe by politicians that businesses and the wealthy are “bad greedy citizens” because they have too much power and receive special treatment. This works out nicely for the politicians since it provides food for their rhetoric. But is this conclusion true or false? The answer is “false.” The argument is up side down.

 Politicians in return for favors and money (bribes) bestow power and special treatment to businesses and the wealthy. The politicians…

In the early 20^th century eugenics became a popular theory. Eugenics assumed that talent and genius were hereditary traits, and that selective breeding could improve the human race. Scientists measured physical and other attributes seeking the best solutions to race improvement. Nazi officials exploited this theory with their “experiments.” Today we understand this was a really bad theory.

 Today’s liberal/progressive theories include: (1a) printing money out of thin air,…

Most citizens consider a partly true or a “bent” story intended to scare, seduce or mislead others a lie. For sure career politicians bend the truth about everything, large and small. Thus, a career politician’s rhetoric is mostly a lie. We citizens have come to accept this as rather than demand the whole truth. Why?

A large percentage of U.S. career politicians are lawyers. Lawyers as part of the “adversary truth” process are trained to bend the truth and lie to benefit…

President Obama’s stump speech to “tax the rich” is more rhetoric than facts. Let’s look at his statements and the facts before we all jump to the conclusion these taxes will fix our deficits/debt problems. He proposes to let expire the (Bush) tax cuts for those making over $250,000 per year. He claims these tax reductions:

1. Have been a “major” contributor to…

One Year — Inverse Chronological Order

Does borrowing and printing money to create jobs make sense? While it sounds like a simple question, the answer is not so simple. Let’s begin by looking at the job impacts of the 2010 and 2011 deficits, the Federal Reserve’s “money printing“ quantitative easing, and the proposed budget for 2012 to 2022 recently released by the Obama administration.

The deficits for 2010 and 2011 total $3 trillion. The Federal Reserve “money printed” was many trillions more starting in 2009. Average…

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I just read an article in the Washington Times about the annual gathering of political science professors in, where else, the very liberal city of Seattle. These professorial pundits have labeled the TEA Party, among other things, as racist. Gee, Congressional Dimocrats AND college professors reaching the same conclusions? Who knew? Can we all say, "fellow travelers"?

Anyway, my response to the article:

Gee, who would've ever thought that tenured, ivory…

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Here’s some straight talk from a Democratic Congressman that pops the Washington drama balloon about the Debt Limit – Pete Stark (D-CA) told an audience Saturday morning that the Debt Limit debate is a ‘’political charade’. Not exactly anything that President Obama wants the American people to hear while he’s trying to convince them of the utter, complete and immediate need to raise the limit.

“You’ve…