- Post on taxing the rich -The little people 48% do not pay taxes except through hidden BUSINESS [CORPORATE] TAXES passed through to the consumer. In fact they also receive a check from the IRS for the earned income tax credit to refund their portion of the payroll taxes. IN the real world they can get more than they paid in if they have enough dependents [kids].So again the TAX the rich and reduce the tax on the poor is a strawman argument. The rich only pay taxes because they want to [our tax system is voluntarily] for if they did no desire to pay taxes they would just elect not to make any money [interest or profits from investments]. You see they can live on existing cash and wealth for many generations without ever paying a dime in taxes - of course they would not be risking wealth and creating jobs would they?So, the government of the Progressive/Socialist/Communist must find some way to entice the rich to take risk and to pay taxes. So, they place a death tax on the estate so the wealth gets in the hand of government to re-distribute. Hum, how does the Political class then get the support of the rich and wealthy doing things like that to them? Simple they create laws that let the rich and wealthy keep all their money without paying any taxes by creating things like "CHARITABLE TRUSTS" - The Ford, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Chase, Mellon, Gould, Gates, Buffet, and thousand of others have created. It keeps all their wealth and lets them have homes around the world, planes, and pay checks for family members that never stop.My point is that no tax system can ever be fair unless we tax consumption, for then all can save money and accumulate wealth by simply not spending [saving]. the rich will pay much more as they buy Mercedes while we all buy used compacts. They buy furs while we buy wool coats. They buy prime beef while we by choice. So, as you see then the tax is still voluntary but the rich must pay if they want the life style they now have.The moral of the story is to get out and make the Political class make the tax system dependent on consumption for it is fair and all citizens should pay some taxes so they are committed and participate in the government of our nation and would be more watchful of the actions of the Government.
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- Jon..here is a light duty quote from John Adams that brought a smile to me and I thought you guys might enjoy as well.He said in his lifetime he had come to the conclusion that " one useless man is a shame.. two useless men is a law firm .... and three or more usless men is a congress"...
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- The Constitutional issue of Crockett and Congress giving $ 20,000 charitable relief to Georgetown citizens.
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- “The Life of Colonel David Crockett” by Edward Ellis (The book was published in 1861 and is now in the public domain.)
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- Nathan is this back far enough to qualify as history - hum sounds like what we are saying today?
"So far as the Civil Law is concerned, slaves are not considered persons, but this is not the case according to natural law, because natural law regards all men as equal."
"The precepts of the law are the following: to live honorably, to injure no one, to give to every one his due."
รข€” Ulpian, Roman jurist, ~222 CE
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- Goldwater Institute DailyJune 9, 2011Can Arizona follow Rhode Island’s lead on health care spending?
Ten years ago, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona’s free health care system for low income people, cost taxpayers $506 million, 8 percent of the state’s general fund spending. Today, AHCCCS will cost taxpayers almost $1.4 billion, more than 16 percent of the state’s general fund spending. While AHCCCS spending has almost tripled, total state spending has risen by one third.In good economic times, one in six Arizonans was on the AHCCCS rolls. Today, it’s closer to one in five. Given the state’s budget crunch and explosive growth in this program, this year the legislature reduced spending on Medicaid (including AHCCCS) by around $500 million.
But bringing Medicaid spending back in line and righting the state’s financial ship won’t be so easy. The budget reduction is now subject to a lawsuit. Federal maintenance of effort requirements, prohibitions on co-pays and deductibles, and various other rules keep states from taking sensible steps to control costs.The federal government has mostly had a “my way or the highway” stance on Medicaid policy. Either Arizona plays by Washington’s rules or we lose two federal dollars for every one dollar we put into Medicaid.But there may be a way out from between this rock and hard place. Rhode Island was granted a waiver so that its federal Medicaid dollars are block granted back to the state. While Rhode Island receives a fixed amount of money, which might be bitter medicine in some years, it gets flexibility in exchange. Estimates of that small state’s savings are as high as $140 million.Arizona should pursue a waiver similar to Rhode Island’s. Otherwise, we will be forced to choose between funding Medicaid or funding schools, or eventually opting out of Medicaid altogether.Dr. Byron Schlomach is the director of the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Economic Prosperity.Learn More:Heritage Foundation: The State Flexibility Act: Moving Closer to Successful Medicaid ReformRead the online version of this daily email here.
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- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black
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- John Adams defined a republic as "a government of laws, and not of men."[2] Constitutional republics attempt to weaken the threat of majoritarianism and protect dissenting individuals and minority groups from the "tyranny of the majority" by placing checks on the power of the majority of the population.[3] The power of the majority of the people is limited to electing representatives who legislate within the limits of an overarching constitutional law that a simple majority cannot modify
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- If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. It is to be remarked that the phrase out of which this doctrine is elaborated, is copied from the old articles of Confederation, where it was always understood as nothing more than a general caption to the specified powers, and it is a fact that it was preferred in the new instrument for that very reason as less liable than any other to misconstruction. – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (1792-01-21)
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man’s house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man’s conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact. – “Property” in The National Gazette (29 March 1792)I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. – Annals of Congress (1794-01-10)Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – Political Observations” (1795-04-20)Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad. – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1798-05-13)
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
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