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You Paid For This: Mayberry Shakedown

Andy Griffith, who of course played the iconic role of Andy Taylor in the 60′s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, has been hired by you. Didn’t know you had that kind of swag? I didn’t either. I’m not going to harp on Andy here, because he’s old and he sees the writing on the wall: get all the money you can now because it’s about to get bleak.

But you should know that you paid for this: You paid for the hiring of a celebrity to alter your own opinion. How duplicitous of yourself. It cost 700,000 dollars. I’m not going to show the video, instead I’m going to show some good old fashion, non-socialist Mayberry. Enjoy:

Also, there’s some promising news out of Missouri where they voted no to allowing the federal government to force you to buy things.  Read about it here. “With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law…”

That’s a good video above, isn’t it?  The government could have shown this for free across the nation instead of spending the jack, and people would have been happier and less demeaned.

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Radioactive Rabbit Poop….

…is not a metaphor for the Stimulus Package, it’s a part of it.

“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.

A new AP report linked above states that many jobs that were given raises were counted as saved jobs in the White House Report this month

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The raises may have been needed or promised earlier, I don’t care about that so much as I care about someone getting a raise and it counting to Obama’s Big Stat Fantasy Job Saving League.

There should be an outcry here, but I’m not sure where it’ll come through.  Fox News is blacklisted a la 50′s Red Scare–apparently fiscal conservativism is the new Witch.  So, if AP reports on this, where is the accountability?  This is not something that should be allowed to drop through the daily news cycle.

We’ll keep our eyes open.

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The Income Tax Won’t Be Enough

A look at the history of the Income Tax:

In a way, the income tax can seem like one of the easiest taxes to get out of.  Bums pay no income tax.  If you don’t work, you don’t pay–an ironic outcome considering the idea of taxes are to promote the benefit and growth for the country.  Ratified permanently in 1913, the Income Tax was a way to get a piece of all that money people were earning, instead of solely on indirect taxation.

Imagine sitting in on a meeting where this idea was pitched  “We’ve got them already coming in, how do we get them leaving now?”  Some would argue that they had to come up with an idea such as an income tax at all, but most would not argue the reason: national debt.  When the nation was spending money, albeit one bill was the Civil War a few decades before, a necessary expense, but when the nation was spending money, it wasn’t fun to think about the future.  Spend it and live in the moment–that’s how we’re wired.

But eventually, when the fun wears out and you realize you’ve got to pay that bar tab, you have to raise the capital.  And that’s what the income tax was born, due to large amounts of national debt.  The government was in a hole and had to find a way to tax the people twice on every dollar.

Now that’s a weird statement, you might say.  Twice on every dollar.  Imagine you lived somewhere where the government was paid off of the things you purchased.  And you generated income in order to purchase more things, ergo the government was paid more when you bought more.  That was the United States of America before 1913 more or less, but afterward you were not only taxed on the things you bought, but that income you raised to buy those things.  In the sales industry, that’s called getting them twice, the extended service warranty and the rust proofing of the undercarriage.

But this won’t be enough to carry the burden that’s about to be placed on our country, that is now placed on our country.  New taxes, creative ways to dip into other people’s money will be created.

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Day 1

So here I am…not a writer or blogger or activist or anything..Just a citizen of the Republic of the United States of America. I am not eloquent or brilliant. I am not a wacko or “right wing activist”. I am just a simple small business owner who cannot seem to get ahead in the world. Over the last few years, I have tried to get to the bottom of it….tried to discover where I am going wrong….tried to cut my spending…tried to come up with new ideas…just tried to live the American dream and make a comfortable life for my family. And where has that got me? Well that will all be explained over the next few posts. I will spill my life for the world to see. But, for now, I can tell you that one word describes my feelings and gets worse every day…that word is FRUSTRATION. I hope that maybe one person will overlook my poor grammar…my poor spelling…and my random thoughts and be able to contribute/learn/toss around ideas and hopefully contribute to REAL CHANGE in our system. We shall see what happens….

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