Taxed 2 Debt!

Small Businesses Take a Hit in Oregon

New taxes were raised up in the Northwest this week:

In Oregon, unions got together, public service/education, and hit the airwaves with a message saying: let’s make Wall Street pay, CEO’s and others. But, there’s a problem with that. The new state income tax rate of 11 percent will hit more than some fictitious monsters:

“The reality is that these taxes will be absorbed by employers who sign worker paychecks—from Nike Inc. to the corner grocer. Two-thirds of those hit with the new 11% tax rate are small and medium-sized business owners. Phil Knight of Nike dubbed the tax initiatives Oregon’s “assisted suicide” for business. “

Your Taxes Paid For This:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml

This was a large group of people who make money off of other peoples’ taxes taking a vacation to Denmark, to talk about a theory, and not do anything about it anyway.

From the article:

“But considering the size of the deficit, and the fact that that no global deal would be reached — critics question the super-sized U.S. delegation — more than 165 — leaving the impression there’s dollars to burn. In this case, more than a million.”

 We don’t mind, government/elected people.  We’ve got money to burn.  Just, next time, when you take a long intercontinental flight like this one, and got lots of time on your hands, think of new ways to tax us regular folk to pay for more trips.

Taxes paid for this:

This is part of a reoccurring series: Taxes Paid for This.  We hope you enjoyed.

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Farmers fall victim to the Estate Tax.

From the article linked above: “Moreover, farmland close to urban centers is often lost forever to development when estate taxes force farm families to sell off land to pay taxes,” and also this: “It would be a travesty if the next generation was forced to abandon the farm, just to pay the taxes.“

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Unusually cold weather snowman, what's your feeling on global warming?

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The French Taxation:

There’s been some articles in nerd land (where I was born and reared) about France creating new taxes for the internet. The French see Google as a cash cow, and are happy to go a piece all the while saying it’s for the arts–in particular the arts that have been “hurt by the internet.”

So by taking from those who have adapted to what customers want, they will be giving to a group of artists who have refused to change with the times.  Innovative, indeed.

Oui! I want to tax your love.

While this may not seem applicable to us here in the states, it truly is.  The French government is considered progressive by our leaders and is an example of a system that many liberals find ideal.

Have you tried to get a gallon of gas in France the last couple of years?  The price is somewhere around 9 dollars a gallon.  This is not because of the cost of the oil, but the plethora of taxes tacked on.

Right now I’m reading Alexis De Tocqueville’s exploration of the United States in the 1800′s, a book from a brilliant Frenchman who came to America and wrote an account of everything that America stood for: Democracy, freedom, the ease of mobility in economic status.  Now we’re looking the back over the ocean, and our leaders are pining for Socialism.  Something isn’t adding up.