Death & Taxes

Tonight, I paid a guy to come to the house and prepare my returns, and everything went as expected. I knew I was going to owe some money to both the fed and the state, so it wasn't a big deal, and I'm not particularly annoyed about having to write the check. Hey, I earned some money, and it takes money to run the government, so I'm OK with pitching in. What does bother me, however, is the amount of time and money that Americans are forced to waste in order to comply with our tax system, and the fact that our tax system is used not only as a means of collecting the money needed to pay for services and benefits, but as a tool with which politicians and bureaucrats try to engineer our society and economy. If taxes are part of our lives as citizens, then every citizen should pay, and no person should pay more than another, relatively speaking, simply because some politician or bureaucrat thinks they should. That's why I believe in a national sales tax, as a replacement to the present system, not in addition to the present system. The point of our existence as humans or citizens is NOT to pay taxes. Paying taxes is not a moral act, it is a contract between people and a government for services. That's it, and if you look at it otherwise, or accept that the government has as right to your money, you have resigned your society to tyranny in the end. If taxes are collected on EVERYTHING that is sold, with the exception of food, medicine, health insurance, and a few other life necessities, and we exempt no one, it will tie the income of the govt to the prosperity and confidence of the people, and it will take one more method of abuse of power from that govt., both being desirable results. If a person saves their money, they will accumulate wealth. If they spend it, they won't. Think of how much simpler life would be. If there were no income or corporate taxes, there would be no loopholes to benefit certain groups. The poor, who actually get more from govt. than they contribute, would pay their fair share, based on the prices of things they can afford, and the rich would contribute an equal percentage, although a greater amount, based on the expensive things they purchase. Accountants would only be needed by businesses to keep management honest to owners/shareholders, etc., and to pay the taxes they collected from sales. If everything a company bought was taxed, and there were no deductions, for the purpose of the tax system, life would be better for everybody. As things stand now, entrepreneurs, inventors, business owners, and all the people who create the wealth of nations spend far too much energy and thought about taxes. Imagine how much more vibrant our economy would be, if those people focused 100% of that economic energy on doing and making things. Consider, too, the unifying effect that such a system would have, by taking away class warfare from the politicians. The poor envy the rich, and the rich resent the poor, and why is that? Who does it serve? 'Not the rich, and not the poor. As I send-off the check to Washington, DC, I don't resent the poor person who doesn't pay any taxes, because he has no money, and I don't resent the rich person who doesn't pay any taxes, because he has a good accountant. Me, I resent the people in Washington, DC, who have divided, conquered and enslaved us all to their will, and to the tax system that it created, for it's own benefit, not ours.

IS SARAH PALIN ACTUALLY HATE-ABLE?

You know, I've been observing politics in this country for a long time, and I'm used to the Left vilifying conservatives they think might threaten their goals, but this whole Sarah Palin episode has them absolutely frothing at the mouth, and I don't get it. I keep hearing people call her stupid, and say that she has no clue, or no experience, or whatever, and I'm stunned. Excuse me! The guy in the White House was a "community organizer", and got elected through the Illinois political machine? Hell, people, he's Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, and everyone is acting like the guy is Einstein! He's not! He read some well written speeches, but since he got the job, I haven't heard or seen anything from him to suggest that he is anything but an average intellect. Simply being liberal doesn't raise your IQ! In fact, I'm starting to think that liberals have one of two problems. Either they are stupid, or they are insane, because to continue to cling to political, economic and social policies that have proven, for almost a century, to be complete failures, you have to be one or the other. They can't actually all be working for our enemies, can they? That's the only other reasonable explanation.
Anyway, back to Sarah Palin. Excuse me, again, but, from a historical perspective, all the "best and brightest" from our "elite" Eastern universities who have been running our government for some time now have done a pretty crappy job, wouldn't you agree? I mean, what part of total screw-ups doesn't everyone get? What HAVE they done right? We're broke, our education system is a failure, our infrastructural system is obsolete, our criminal justice system is a joke, we can't secure our borders, we can't stop exporting jobs, etc., etc., etc. What exactly do they teach at the Ivy League schools? Stupidity and incompetence? Drug usage? Corruption? Yeah, we better watch out for that Sarah Palin bitch, she probably didn't take any of those classes in college!
Al-Freakin'-Gore went to Harvard and Vanderbuilt! Bill Clinton went to Georgetown, Oxford and Yale! Jimmy Carter had a fine educational pedigree! Yeah, all of them turned-out to be great leaders, didn't they? The two Bush Boys were Yale guys. Yep, you're right, we had some great strides forward under ALL their terms, didn't we?
So, what's the beef with Palin? Let me see, hmmm. Well, had she run for Prez, instead of McCain, and been elected, she probably wouldn't have been trying to nationalize our medical system, so the federal government could screw that up, and she probably wouldn't have nationalised GM and Chrysler. Oh, and she wouldn't be trying to screw the American economy into the ground with Crap and Trade, and regulate every aspect of our lives. Hmm, what else? She probably wouldn't have nationalised most of our financial sector, and she probably wouldn't have been kissing-ass on Castro, Chavez and Ortega, and selling-out the peoples of Honduras, Iran, N. Korea and other struggling nations around the world. OH, and we'd be developing REAL energy policies, that help raise our standard of living, and reduce the cost of energy, instead of guarantying the income of OPEC for generations through idiotic "GREEN" policies. She probably wouldn't have her people trying to undermine the Second Amendment.
Hell, there are probably lots of things she wouldn't be trying to tax, regulate or ban. What a crazy bitch!
I think her biggest problem with the mainstream media, and the liberal elites in this country is, someone might actually confuse her with being an AMERICAN.

LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATS

NO NATIONALIZED MEDICINE
NO CAP AND TRADE TAXES AND REGULATIONS
NO MORE FEDERAL ACQUISITION OF PRIVATE COMPANIES
NO MORE GUN CONTROL
NO MORE GIVING MONEY AWAY TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
NO MORE HANDING OUT TAX MONEY TO OBAMA SUPPORTERS
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF TALK RADIO

Taxes and regulation, and too much government spending, have turned California into a business and jobs wasteland, and thereby puts us in bankruptcy.

I keep hearing how our "best and brightest" go to Washington, to run our government, but I can't see how that could possibly be.

In 1 hour, studying California alone, even someone from the public school system could figure out that the Democratic federal agenda would do nothing but re-create the "success" of California for the entire country.

Or, is that what you guys are trying to accomplish? Are you actually working for the Chinese? The Arabs? The Russians? Who is it? It certainly isn't the American people!

FATE OF THE GOP?

So, anyone out there remember a little party called the Reign of Terror? Anyway, so, these French people got all pissed off at the monarchy (see: government), because their lifestyle and their ambitions were so great that they reduced the standard of living of the average French non-government worker to poverty and starvation, and one day these starving and angry French people dragged a bunch of these wasteful and high-living government workers and "leaders" out into the streets, and gave them really short haircuts. I mean, dude, it seems to me that the Democrats and the Imperial bureaucracy of Prince Obama might have missed that class, back when they were in public schools. Everyone is talking about the fate of the GOP. That's funny, because by the time Obama's spending and borrowing orgy is over, I'm thinking the American people are going to be looking for some serious payback themselves.