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Each year my wonderful wife does our taxes and gives me a total of how much we actually pay in taxes (total bill – fed, local, sales tax etc.) and the percentage of my income. Here is this year’s letter to my senators/rep. If you like it, modification for your use or outright plagiarism is definitely encouraged. Dear Mr. Senator, It’s that time of year again. The weather is warming up, the days are getting longer, the trees once again are showing signs of life and the Federal Government once again confiscates my earnings. Yes, I know they have been...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants all Californians to have medical insurance. So he's going to force them to have it. Schwarzenegger abandoned his opposition to mandated employer-based health insurance and embraced the idea as his own. "Everyone in California must have insurance. If you can't afford it, the state will help you buy it, but you must be insured," Schwarzenegger said last month. Of course, his "solution" won't solve the problem. By making medical care look cheap to people, expanded insurance will push prices up even faster. Everyone will end up paying more. But politicians benefit because the costs will be...

WHY AM I SKEPTICAL ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING? A 21-page report from something called the "Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change" has been released today...in Paris, no less...and as expected, it's predictions are dire. According to the report: "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level." Yeah right...we've heard all this before. But the biggest bombshell here is this one: no matter what we do, global warming will not be reversed. It will go on...

WASHINGTON -- Fifty-seven years later, the Sumner Elementary School in Topeka is back in the news. That city's board of education is still wrongly preventing the right people from getting into that building. Two educators wanted to use Sumner for a charter school, a public school entitled to operate outside the confinements of dictated curricula and free from many work rules written by teachers unions. Their school would have been a back-to-basics academy for grades K through five, designed to attack Topeka's 23-point gap between the reading proficiency of black and Hispanic third-graders and that of whites. When the school...

Two weeks ago, U.S. drug agents launched raids on 11 medical-marijuana centers in Los Angeles County. The U.S. attorney's office says they violated the laws against cultivation and distribution of marijuana. Whatever happened to America's federal system, which recognized the states as "laboratories of democracy"? According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, 11 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington) have eliminated the penalties for physician-approved possession of marijuana by seriously ill patients. In those states people with AIDS and other catastrophic diseases may either grow their own marijuana...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9EiSJaXww Title says it all - must see - Very Funny!!!

School Soda Ban •Major Soda Brands Agree to Halt Sales to Public Schools The nation's largest beverage distributors have agreed to halt nearly all soda sales to public schools, according to a deal announced Wednesday by the William J. Clinton Foundation. Under the agreement, the companies have agreed to sell only water, unsweetened juice and low-fat milks to elementary and middle schools, said Jay Carson, a spokesman for former President Bill Clinton. Diet sodas would be sold only to high schools Cadbury Schweppes PLC, Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. and the American Beverage Association have all signed onto the deal, Carson...

FAIRTAX RALLY MAY 24th! Well, we're going to have that FairTax Rally you've been begging for. It will be at the Gwinnett Convention Center on Wednesday, May 24th at 7:30 p.m. Many of our radio stations are making plans to send a few busses full of listeners to the rally ... others are coming on their own. If you can't come to the rally there is a way you can participate. Letters! We want letters! We want letters detailing your support for the FairTax! We'll dump those letters on stage during the rally to show the level of support! Then...