http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/taxation/ en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:16:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472531/posts Fiscal Policy: The latest data show a record number of people with no tax obligation. We also have the highest-earning nontaxpayers ever. With more riding the wagon and fewer pulling, it should soon break down. A record number of the 142 million tax returns filed in 2008 resulted in no taxes owed, according to the Tax Foundation's analysis of the latest IRS data. About 51.6 million returns, or 36.3%, were filed by those whose deductions, exemptions and tax credits wiped out any federal income-tax obligation. These aren't people who have overpaid their taxes or had so much withheld from their... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472531/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:16:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473712/posts The letter that Ralph Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, recently sent to the American people reflects what America has become under the welfare state. Here is what the letter states in part: "Your response is important. Results from the 2010 Census will be used to help each community get its fair share of government funds for highways, schools, health facilities, and many other programs you and your neighbors need. Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share." In that one paragraph lies the plunderbund society in all it majestic glory. Everyone is supposed... Campaign for Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473712/posts#comment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:14:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2470657/posts William J Federer's awesome work called: "Faith in History" - program broadcast on TCT TV and found in the Videos on Demand section of the TCT.TV website. In this program, William Fderer is Talking about where our founders mentioned “the unborn” in the word “posterity”. Also talks about our huge national debt and how it has tripled (or is it quadrupled?0 since O became President... He also quotes President Thomas Jefferson who cancelled every federal tax on everything except on salt - and, the economy BOOMED! Jefferson's 2nd Annual Message to Congress message to Congress including this: "We are able... Faith in History program - William J Federer - as found on TCT TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2470657/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:35:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470348/posts “Tax the rich” has been the inveterate battle cry of liberals from the beginning. The left believes in creating massive entitlement and welfare programs all in the name of fairness. Equal rights, it seems, don’t apply to the wealthy. Ironically, the idea only ends up hurting the very people it’s supposed to help. Early in 2009, Maryland raised its tax rate to 6.25% for income earners of $1 million or more and saw a decline in tax revenue as high-income taxpayers emigrated to tax-friendlier states. While it may seem that few families make an income of a million dollars, sole... American Thinker via CDS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470348/posts#comment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:51:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459945/posts http://www.waterforfighting.org http://www.petitiononline.com/CWPOSSE/ Media Release: This Saturday, February 27, 2010 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. California Watershed Posse Co-Founder and executive director Oscar Braun will be interviewed live on Santa Cruz KSCO AM radio by host and station owner Michael Zwerling on his Saturday Special show. The California Watershed Posse is proposing a controversial California statewide ballot initiative that would significantly change property taxes, present restrictions on air, land, and water resource use, and otherwise reset the economy of California. The proposed ballot initiative appears below. KSCO radio serves much of the Central Coast of California and can also be... http://www.cwposse.org/waterforfighting/campaign.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459945/posts#comment Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:05:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459576/posts Conservatives in Britain will hold their first Tea Party protest in Brighton on Saturday, with British member of the European parliament (and frequent Fox News guest) Daniel Hannan giving the keynote. The party web site is here. “Labour has raised more than a trillion pounds in additional taxation since 1997. Yet, unbelievably, Gordon Brown has still managed to run up a deficit of 12.6% of GDP (Greece’s is 12%). A far lower level of taxation brought Americans out in spontaneous protest last year,” Hannan wrote for the London Telegraph. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459576/posts#comment Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2457736/posts Though the Glenn Beck clips are classic examples of the nonsense this nitwit pushes out all day on his radio and TV shows, the interview with Samantha Bee from the CPAC future is the funniest thing I ever did see. Gunfloss... All independent voters should be rounded up, hog tied, have their eyelids stapled open like Alex and forced to watch this 3 minute video. One viewing would be enough for these 40% of the voters to end of all this crazy right-wing crap once and for all. Kick! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2457736/posts#comment Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:19:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457253/posts Today I was selected ordered to participate in the American Community Survey (ACS). Never heard of it? Neither did I, until the edict arrived in the mail from the Community Organizer in Chief, via one of his many bootlicking lackeys, Robert M. Groves, director of the United States Department of Commerce. I’ll receive the survey in a few days, the edict tells me. The 28-page questoinaire [download a pdf here] is separate from the Census. My response to both (emphasis theirs) documents is “required by U.S. Law.” Snip First I’ll be sending the notification letter back marked, as you saw... NoisyRoom.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2457253/posts#comment Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:57:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453339/posts If you’re known by the company you keep, then the United States may want to re-think its economic policy. The 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, a joint publication of the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, measures the world’s nations according to a range of criteria from the ease of starting a business, to protection of property rights, to various forms of government interventions. Among the 15 “biggest losers” during the past year was the United States, placing it among the likes of Libya, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Venezuela. (The inclusion of the relatively more respectable United Kingdom is cold... Acton via CDS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453339/posts#comment Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:54:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448165/posts As part of his promised new focus on jobs, President Obama yesterday hosted a bipartisan jobs meeting. But he has yet to propose many pro-employment specifics -- and his overall economic plan remains unmistakably anti-job. Other than a few odd ideas like using TARP funds paid by banks to fund more government programs, Obama's main push is for a "jobs" bill like the $150 billion measure the House has already passed, which includes various tax credits and new spending to supposedly create jobs. But the spending there is hopeless -- it's more of the same ideas that failed in last... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448165/posts#comment Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:37:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445842/posts Colorado is considering becoming the fourth state to force online retailers like Amazon to charge state sales tax. The Senate Finance Committee backed the proposal late Thursday. The House has already approved the measure, one of 13 tax bills proposed to balance the state budget. Colorado retailers back the bill, saying online retailers should have to collect taxes just as they do. But small, home-based businesses that earn money by linking customers to online stores fear that change could cost them their livelihoods. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445842/posts#comment Sat, 6 Feb 2010 18:33:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2445173/posts This clip from The Great One is from his first hour on Tuesday (Feb. 2). He responds to Obama's inane demand that we, the American citizens "tighten our belts" while he spends like an entire ship of drunken sailors. Mark also talks about a Reuters piece that mysteriously disappeared from their website, but Drudge caught a screen shot of it. The article talks about how the middle class is about to get hit with tons of taxes - which Obama had promised would not happen - as a result of many of the Bush tax cuts expiring and a number... Mark Levin via Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2445173/posts#comment Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:41:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444559/posts So at what point does this stop? How on earth do we the people who pay for this stuff get it to stop? It seems elections don't fix it. You listen to the campaign promises and we end up with more spending and more taxes. From the smallest local taxing body to the federal government this has to stop - somehow. We have to elect national level representative that will look at the larger picture - I don't really care if my representative brings federal dollars to my area - THEY ARE MY DOLLARS AND I DON'T WANT TO SPEND... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444559/posts#comment Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:01:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2444293/posts Liberals think they can tell people how to live. To micromanage individual lives they invent macro reasons like saying that one person's health decisions effects the financial health of all. Keep in mind, of course, that with the advance of a socialistic economy the government will have increased opportunity to tax out of existence any proclivities you have which the government deems to be harmful to the financial well being of society. Liberals have instituted heavy punishing taxes on cigarettes because the medical costs necessary to keep smokers alive is prohibitive. Liberals are attempting to tax fatty foods because heavier... CMR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2444293/posts#comment Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:19:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441594/posts TAMPA - The questions no longer are if or when Tampa will get high-speed trains to Lakeland and Orlando. What's now important is how the Bay area can make the rail system pay off. The Obama Administration on Wednesday announced that Florida will receive a "down payment" of $1.25 billion toward the eventual $2.56 billion required to build the project.... The Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441594/posts#comment Mon, 1 Feb 2010 02:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437212/posts Taxes: On the eve of President Obama's first State of the Union address, two Democratic congressmen are advising him to extend the Bush tax cuts instead of letting them expire. Now that's a stimulus. We hear that the administration is considering taking a more populist tack as it sails the choppy political waters of 2010. Some of President Obama's plans reportedly include several tax tidbits for the "middle class," including a doubling of the child care tax credit for families below $85,000 in income, and $1.6 billion for child care and a cap on student loan payments. Such transparent populism... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437212/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:31:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435870/posts PORTLAND, Ore. – If any Americans are willing to fork over more to state governments in 2010, it might just be those of Oregon, where voters are deciding the fate of two proposed tax increases that target the wealthy and corporations. Oregon voters the past two weeks have been marking referendum ballots on two tax issues, one raising rates on people who make more than $125,000 a year in taxable income — $250,000 for joint filers — Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435870/posts#comment Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:05:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2431038/posts Only raw and unrestrained liberalism could have destroyed the world's 8th-largest economy. Boasting unparalleled assets in agriculture, high technology, entertainment, and tourism, and blessed with ample energy resources, deep-water ports and ideal weather, California has nonetheless managed to turn itself into a perfect dystopia. California's governor offered this in his last State of the State message: "We need to work with the feds so that we can fix the flawed formula that demands that states spend money they do not have." Certainly that's a good start from Schwarzenegger, who only recently, as part of a degrading suck-up routine, graded Obama's... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2431038/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:18:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430580/posts The tax department is brainstorming a kind of data mining most often associated with Homeland Security. Is a bar underreporting its sales? Annual reports from liquor wholesalers would show it. Is a pizza franchise selling more pies than it is reporting to the state? The chain’s parent company might have to show how many pizza boxes it sent to the local shop. Is a car dealer low-balling its sales? Check the records over at the DMV. The new approach makes New York a leader in the pursuit of tax cheats and has put tax professionals and businesses on alert that... Post Standard-Syracuse NY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430580/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:48:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2427039/posts About a month ago, I received a tip from Larwyn on Obama’s Latest Big Brother Plan. To say it is chilling, is the understatement of the century. After I read about it, I immediately felt ill… I had not blogged on it because the last month has been hectic, but this indeed is something that will fundamentally ‘change’ all of our lives and not for the better. The White House plans to expand the Office of Personnel Management. Most Americans don’t even know what this Office is, much less how dangerous it now is. First excerpt: The Office of Personnel... Noisy Room.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2427039/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2423397/posts When Pharoah, king of Egypt wished to oppress Bnei Yisroel, he first chose heavy taxation as a method. It is clear from the text that the priority of Pharoah was not a national building campaign, but to reign in what was perceived as a foreign population for which Egypt felt both compelled to control but afraid to allow to leave.more APRPEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2423397/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421008/posts Fiscal Policy: The new year saw the death of the estate tax. But like Freddie Krueger, this epitome of class warfare and wealth redistribution is sure to return to wreak havoc among the living. Once dubbed the "Paris Hilton" tax, the levy is supposed to target the inherited wealth of the super-rich who really didn't earn it or don't really need so much of it. Or so we're told. But at some point, even inherited wealth was created and taxed in its creation. The death tax is double taxation, and just because you can't take it with you doesn't mean... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421008/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:07:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420402/posts Socialism's greatest lie is that it promises the people something for nothing, services and programs of all kind that will either be "free" or more affordable than the free market variety. But just like the ads promising you a free iPod or a chance to make millions from home while you yawn, socialism is not something for nothing, instead more often it's nothing for something. The idea that the government will take care of you is appealing, entire nanny states have been built on that proposition. But the government can't take care of you, it can't even pay its own... Sultan Knish http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420402/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:21:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419810/posts The lesson to be learned from Sweden of today (a nation lead by a - predominantely - Conservative government) is that during a global finacial crises, a government brave enough to sell off some formerly nationalized businesses to the free market could finance tax cuts and pay off national debt. I guess this is preferable to one striving to take on hefty loans in order to try and save unhealthy companies and launch costly health care reforms. But, it's not for me to say in the case of America, as I'm not a citizen of that country (although I sure... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419810/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 03:26:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416207/posts As we prepare for the final round of debate over health reform, perhaps the most contentious issue will be financing. Both the Senate and House agree that most of the financing for reform should come from scaling back overpayments to Medicare insurers and providers, as well as excise taxes on some of the sectors that will most benefit from 30 million newly insured consumers. But the two houses remain apart on where to find the remaining dollars. In the Senate, the gap is closed by relying on the "Cadillac tax," a 40 percent assessment on insurance plans with premiums of... Washington (Com) Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416207/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:39:57 GMT