Eliminate Taxes on Businesses

I mean it, completely eliminate taxes on Businesses.

I will tell you why.... even as we speak businesses do not pay any taxes, taxes are calculated into the cost of doing business, and thus are added into the price the consumer pays for those products or services.. That's right they extra money from their customers and transfer that money to the government. That’s right when you tax business you tax the people who buy from them. Raise taxes on Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart will raise prices.
Since people are the ultimate consumers, people pay all the taxes. There is not a corporation in America that pays taxes, because they pass that burden along, to their customers. When a customer earns their money, it is taxed by the Nation, in many instances the State (41 states have income tax), and in some cases even their local municipalities tax their income. The when a person buys something (in most cases) that consumer pays a local sales tax, as well as a state sales tax.

On top of everything else the consumer also pays the tax burden of the companies they buy from as well as the person who produces the raw materials, the manufacturers, distributors, the shipping companies and even the cross docks of the products they buy. It would be hard to say the least to even calculate how much of every dollar earned and spent goes into government coffers.

As a passing thought, if you tax a company and they lose money, they get those taxes back. So if you don't tax them they don't get any money back, when they lose money.

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", May 7, 1918

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

One Chance Only

Here in Florida, during our election process; Our Governor Charlie Crist decided he wanted to be our Senator, when Senator Martinez stepped down. His first step towards this process was to appoint someone who had no aspirations to hold on to it.... in other words someone to keep it warm for him (I'm surprised he just didn't appoint himself to the position). This made it so Charlie wouldn't have to run against an incumbent. Then our RINO (Republican In Name Only) Governor, announced his candidacy for the Senate seat. However, a young upstart by the name of Marco Rubio (keep your eye on him), announced his candidacy. During the primary Marco handed Charlie a sound defeat. Now here is where my problem is Charlie, announced he was running for Senator as an independent. Now he has already run as a Republican and lost, and he wants another chance? This is wrong, If someone runs for office and his own party doesn't want him that should be it. If he wants to run again, he must wait until the next election, The story has a happy ending as far as I am concerned. Marco beat Crist, and even if Crist received all the votes the Democrat candidate did, Marco would have still won, since Marco pulled in a majority vote (over 50%). Of course all this would be a moot point if my idea of a general primary where every candidate ran and the top two were our choices during the general election. By the way I am still advocating the number two man (or woman) becomes the Lt Governor, and that they both act not only as Governor and Lt Governor, but as the State's two Senators.

Owe Taxes? No Government Job!

According to an article written in the LA Times on September 10th 2010; 41 "Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone. We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. 638 workers on Capitol Hill owe the IRS $9.3 million in back taxes. Tom Daschle was the president's top pick to run the Health and Human Services Dept. But it turned out the former Democratic senator, who was un-elected from South Dakota in 2004, owed something like $120,000 to the IRS for things from his subsequent benefactor that he just forgot to pay taxes on. In the House of Representatives, 421 people owe a total $6,524,892. In the Senate, 217 owe $2,774,836. In the IRS' parent department, Treasury, 1,204 owe $7,670,814. At the Labor Department, where Secretary Hilda Solis' husband had some back-tax problems before her confirmation, 463 owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one workers for the Federal Reserve System's board of governors owe $1,076,733. Over at the Justice Department, which is so busy enforcing other laws and suing Arizona, 1,971 employees still owe $14,350,152 in overdue taxes. Then, we come to the Department of Homeland Security, which is run by Janet Napolitano, the former governor of Arizona who preferred to call terrorist acts "man-caused disasters." Homeland Security is keeping all of us safe by ensuring that a brave Dutch tourist is aboard every inbound international flight to thwart any would-be bomber with explosives in his underpants. Within that department, there reside 4,856 people who owe the tax agency a whopping total of $37,012,174."

According to ABC News: "Currently, only IRS employees can be terminated for non-payment of federal income taxes -- a measure Chaffetz wants extended to all federal agencies. The IRS has the lowest level of tax delinquency among its employees than at any other federal agencies, according to the most recent statistics."

This is unreal! and it is a slap in the face of all Americans. Our taxes pay their wages! If they are not going to pay their taxes, they should not be eligible to hold those positions. Elected officials should be ineligible to run or hold office if they cannot pay their fair share. How can they expect us to pay our taxes (the ones they raise all too often) if they don't pay theirs.

Anyone who runs for office, should be audited by the IRS. Their records for the past 10 years should be released for public scrutiny. If they are found to be delinquent, then they will not be placed on the ballot. Anyone already in office found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 6 months), will be removed from office; then they will be ineligible to run again.

Anyone who applies for a government job (or appointed to a government position), will have an IRS background check added to their list of qualifying standards. If they are found to be delinquent on their taxes, they will be removed for consideration for any government position. If they are already employed by the government and found to be delinquent on their taxes (and do not bring their account current within 12 months), they will be removed from their position and marked ineligible for rehire.

Government, should set the standard. That's The Way It Should Be.

South Fulton FD Refuses to Put Fire Out
A family is left without a home and with 3 dead dogs and a dead cat, after the South Fulton Tennessee fire department refused to put their house fire out since the family did’t pay a $75 fee to warrant their services.
The Cranick family, who lives in Obion County, next to South Fulton forgot to pay a $75 yearly fee for for fire service. Obion County does not have a county wide service, so they rely on South Fulton’s fire department to respond to any fires, but only if the homeowners pay a $75 fee each and every year. The Cranick family forgot to pay the fee, so the fire department refused to respond to the emergency call.
The fire department eventually showed up, but only to put out the fire that had spread to the neighbor’s yard, watching the Cranick’s house burned to the ground. “They put water out on the fence line out here. They never said nothing to me. Never acknowledged. They stood out here and watched it burn,” said Gene Cranick.

ARE WE KIDDING??? No, I am afraid not. This actually happened or didn't happen. Were I a federal prosecutor, I would bring the fire chief up on charges under the Rico act. Who runs the South Fulton Fire Department anyway? the Mob? the Mafia?, or the Cosa Nostra? These arrogant thugs have tarnished the brilliant reputation of firefighters everywhere. They might as well quit their jobs as firefighters, and take up careers more suited to their demeanor, becoming Lawyers, used car salesmen, or loan sharks (if those professions will have them).

First of all, the way it should be, is when someone doesn't choose to pay the fire response fee, and they have a fire, they get charged the entire cost of the fire department responding (gas, wages, etc.....). The fact that they stood around tells me they were intimidating the family.

What is next, Police allowing criminals to assault, or kill you, if you haven't paid them in advance?

Before and After

It is said the office of the presidency ages a man these pictures prove it....
My question is "How stressful could the job be if it affords a man 7 vacations in two years?" but, then again maybe that is what is aging him....