What incensed me most was his shameless lack of sincerity in accusing Republicans of “spending” on tax cuts; tax cuts that have been in effect for almost a decade – the infamous Bush Tax Cuts!

How on earth is a tax cut, any tax cut, considered spending? I may not have gone to Harvard like our beloved leader, but I wish some Ivy League lib would explain that one to me!

It’s been proven over and over again that tax revenue goes up when taxes are lower. Human nature is such that people will work harder and invest more when they are allowed to reap benefits from their labor. Therefore: lower tax rates = more revenue for the government = more money available for debt payment, and yes, spending!

So, with all due respect (which is none) Mr. Obama, tax cuts are not government spending! The government spending the hard earned tax dollars that are confiscated from the tax payer is spending. Got it? Capice? Comprende?

BTW Mr President: Can we please see your birth cirtificate?

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The law is intended to bring in revenue for the state and local municipalities where the tickets are written. The fines for going less than 10 mph over the speed limit could be up to $150. But there’s a silver lining for South Carolina motorists. The “slow speeding” offences wouldn’t be reported to the driver’s insurance company. Oh how sweet those South Carolina legislators are. Almost brings a tear to my eye.

This “Age of Obama” type of legislation will continue to spread throughout the country like bed bugs in a Mexican prison. States, cities, and towns will continue to dream up ways to milk taxpayers for everything they’re worth. Legislators in New York and New Jersey have already floated the idea of registering bicycles – what’s next?

Plain and simple, legislators know they can’t get away with taxing people’s incomes that easily anymore, so they’ll resort to taxing and fining behavior instead. Excuse me if I’m a bit uncomfortable with law enforcement officers becoming tax collectors. Especially when promotions and raises will likely be based on how much “taxes” are collected.

Just where are we headed with all of this?

How much longer before simply walking down the street minding your own business will make you a target for the revenue collectors? In NYC you can now get fined for lighting up a cigarette in a public park or beach. It doesn’t matter if it’s a crowed beach during the summer, or an empty park in the middle of the winter. It’s not about public safety – it’s about raising revenue. The only saving grace for already overtaxed NYC smokers is the fact that the city’s plans call for the Parks Department to enforce the law. It’s going to be tough finding time between their own cigarette (and other forms of smoking) breaks to enforce this silly law.

Law enforcement officers should be free to use their discretion and common sense in the performance of their duties. They shouldn’t be burdened by pressure to collect revenue to fund programs in order to get fat-assed politicians reelected over and over again. On the other hand, these fat-assed politicians should concentrate on ways to cut their bloated budgets instead of continuously searching for new and innovative ways to nickel & dime citizens to death. I can dream – can’t I?

The Drudge Report has linked to a story about a New Jersey politician who’s proposing license plates for bicycles. Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker, a Democrat of course, is introducing a bill that would require bicycle owners to register their bikes with the Department of Motor Vehicles and pay a $10 registration fee. The bill proposes a $100 fine for any cyclist riding in public without the license plate.

Question for the Assemblywoman: Would a unicycle only be required to pay $5?

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What’s next; scooters, roller blades, and baby carriages? Are the bicycles going to require annual inspections from a government run bike inspection station? What the heck, it would create more government jobs, and as we all know, people need jobs – right?

My wife and I often kid around about this subject, but how long before some municipality starts charging its citizens for every flush of the toilet. This would create more government jobs for the necessary meter installers and toilet inspectors. Or perhaps they could attach some sort of scale system within the toilet bowl, then tax you by how much you deposit into it. The environmentalists would love that one! While they’re at it, they can even fit each citizen with a meter that measures breathing and tax the amount of deadly CO2 we exhale into the atmosphere. With progressives in control the possibilities for raising revenue are virtually endless.

We need a candidate in 2012 that will run on radical tax reform. No more tinkering with the progressive tax rates here and there, but real reform that would shrink the IRS by 80%. I personally favor a flat tax that insures everyone pays their fair and equal share. The George Bush tax cuts of 2001 & 2003 removed millions of Americans from the tax rolls creating millions upon millions more voters who could give a rat’s tuckus if the rest of us have to pay through the nose. Under the right flat tax plan almost everyone would pay something; everyone would have chips in the game.

Of course, federal tax reform wouldn’t stop the big city mayors from nickel and diming us to death. It wouldn’t stop cash strapped states with huge welfare rolls and large populations of illegal immigrants from coming up with ridiculous ideas to bleed us for more cash. The good news is that the midterm election of 2010 not only gave Republicans/Conservatives large gains in the U.S. Congress, (thanks to the Tea Party and Obmacare) but it also produced unprecedented gains in state and local legislatures.

All of us non-progressives need to keep the pressure on politicians at every level. We need to draw a clear line in the sand that says we won’t be slowly but systematically robbed of our hard earned money and our God-given liberty. If we don’t, we’ll all soon be paying a fee for every breath we take and every bowel movement we make.

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Most people who don’t have their heads up their keisters realized that fact long ago.

The evil “Bush tax cuts” which according to the Left are the root of all evil, unfairness, and the current economic crisis, removed millions of more citizens from the tax rolls. At the time, Bush even bragged about it. Go figure!

The abominable progressive income tax system that has been in place in America for nearly a century rewards certain people, while punishing others. It usually rewards the leeches of society while punishing the producers. This is why Leftists love it.

As the AP story points out, millions of Americans are now excluded from paying federal taxes due to tax credits, deductions, and exemptions. Before I get e-mails from all the dummies out there; yes these people do get federal taxes deducted from their paychecks, but they receive it all back in the form of the yearly tax refund. Some even get refunds for more than what was deducted.

Tax cuts for the rich eh?

I know that there are some fellow conservatives who won’t like this, but I have always been appalled by the fact that the federal government gives tax breaks to people just for having children. Last time I checked, having children was a personal choice not a burden that some outside entity places on people. Is it fair that people who are single, or couples who don’t have children should in effect support those who choose to have them?

No it’s not fair! The entire progressive income tax system is the antithesis of fairness. It is used by politicians to pay off special interests, buy votes, control or modify people’s behavior, and to generally pit one group of people against the other. The Left loves the fact that almost half of Americans don’t pay any income tax. They love it because people who don’t pay any taxes are usually indifferent towards taxes being raised on the people who do. They’re more likely to fall in line with the whole tax the rich philosophy – the philosophy that leads to Socialism, then Communism, then to Marxism and totalitarianism.

I contend that we will never really be a true free-market economy and a free people until the current tax system is scrapped.

I personally favor a Flat Tax that is equal across the board, and that is paid by everyone. The Flat Tax should also do away with most if not all deductions and exemptions, and should be able to be filled out in 30 seconds on a document the size of a postcard. I also favor the total abolishment of the death tax (inheritance tax) and the capital gains tax. People should never be taxed twice on any of their earnings!

I and many others believe (Know) that a Flat Tax and a zero tax on capital gains, plus a drastic cut in the corporate tax would lead to an explosion of investment and capital. This combined with across the board spending cuts would create an economic boom that would make the Reagan years look like the Jimmy Carter years. It would also drastically increase revenue to the federal government.

It’s totally mind-boggling that many Eastern European countries who lived for decades under the heavy boot of communism have adopted the Flat Tax while the United States now heads in the other direction towards massive wealth redistribution and socialism.

Here’s a list of the countries that have a Flat Tax:

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Albania
Czech Republic
Estonia
Georgia
Guernsey
Kazakhstan
Iceland
Iraq
Jersey
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Mongolia
Montenegro
Mauritius
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Ukraine

Notice that no country in Old Europe (Western Europe) is on the list. That part of the world is steeped in apathy, debt, deficits, and socialism. This is the model that the Obama administration and the Democrat Party want us to emulate – and we are!

Conservatives, Libertarians, and other like minded people should demand that the next candidate to oppose Obama in 2012 put radical tax reform at the top of his or her agenda. I understand that right now our fight is against national healthcare, cap & trade, and probably amnesty for illegal immigrants, but at some point we need to declaw the politicians in Washington D.C. The best and probably only way to really do this is to throw the current progressive tax system into the toilet and flush it 100 times.

That’s really the only way that we will be able to preserve freedom and prosperity for future generations.