The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville has a report on the FairTax rally at The Landing in Jacksonville Saturday where about 3,000 people came out to support and to learn about the Fair Tax.
About 3,000 or so people filled The Jacksonville Landing courtyard to cheer talk radio guru Neal Boortz, members of Congress and others promoting a plan to replace America’s income and payroll taxes with a scaled national sales tax.
In Pensacola this week, members of the The Pensacola Fair Tax Advocates Meetup Group will be attending the April 15th Tea Party at University Mall from 3pm – 6pm. Showing our support for not trying to spend our way out of a recession and borrow our way out of debt. The consequences of which amount to inter-generational theft.
We have no right to deprive future generations the freedom we have by
making them live under the burden of our debt. Their choices will be limited. When it comes to family values, doing this to future generations of our family is no ‘value’ I would subscribe to.
The IRS said today that their tax revenues are down 25% from last year. No problem, those of us left that are still working will just pony up. Remember, according to Vice President Joe Biden, paying taxes is an act of patriotism.
A teaching moment here. Under the Fair Tax, there would be no 25% decrease in taxing revenue. Why? Because the revenue is not taken from the worker’s income. The revenue is instead, taken upon consumption of goods and services, not on your income. And, because income and investments are not taxed under the Fair Tax plan, businesses that have moved off shore to escape the current tax system will have a reason to return and put their $13-15 trillion to use right here in the United States.
Not to mention the unknown trillions of new business from companies around the world that have not yet done business in the United States, that would see the United States as a relative tax haven and locate here.
‘Never allow a crisis to go to waste, they are opportunities to do big things.’ This is ‘rule one‘ as explained by President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual.
What does that mean to you?
To me it means President Obama is not going to rebuild the economy until he first transforms it into his socialist version. Complete with a ‘youth corps’ large enough to include ACORN.
Plans to rebuild the economy come last, not first.
If you think your government is taxing too much, spending too much, and borrowing too much, there’s a good reason for that. Just look at this 20 year chart.
While whining about the $1.3 trillion dollar deficit he inherited, Obama’s way of fixing this is to spend over 4 times that amount, AND, in the same breath will say that he is going to cut the deficit in half in 4 years. The numbers of what the Obama administration wants to spend in his first term is equal to all the spending done by the first 43 presidents combined. And, is the first President of the United States to commit generational theft in the process.
The Congressional Budget Office, the number crunchers in Washington that Democrats loved to quote under the Bush administration, is today poo poo’d by these same Democrats because the CBO’s estimate of Obama’s policies are not the same as the administration’s own number crunchers. The CBO says it is unsustainable. And they are trying to delegitimize the CBO for that. Remember, shooting the messenger is what they do. No matter who or what the target.
Look at the chart. Neither of the estimates are acceptable. All the administration has is spin and deception to force this burdensome debt onto our children and grandchildren. And they could care less.
‘Never allow a crisis to go to waste, they are opportunities to do big things,’ as explained by President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual. What this means is, President Obama is not going to rebuild the economy until he first transforms it into his socialist version, and after that he plans to rebuild the economy in its new and devalued state where the people are less free and the government wields and holds all the power. That is not the change we hoped for or voted for. And that’s why Tea Parties are springing up all over the country.
People who love this country the way it has been for the last 200 plus years are gathering to say, Stop The Spending, Stop the Government Growth, Stop Limiting Freedoms, Stop Nationalizing Business and Industry. Stop!
The Tea Parties are free. Stand up and let our elected officials see you. Come and join us at both if possible.
First one is in Santa Rosa County on Saturday, April 11, 2009 from 11:00 to 1:30 PM at the Farmer’s Opry House, 8897 Byrom Campbell Rd., Chumuckla. This event is to protest the increased taxation and spending by the Federal Government. Bring your American flags; wear patriotic attire, and a big smile. A Dutch treat lunch costing $12.50 each will be served. Music to be provided by the Opry’s Sawmill Band. PLEASE RSVP by April 9 at srcteaparty@yahoo.com or call Wayne Smyly 850 994-1443
The second one is in Escambia County on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, from 3 PM to 6 PM in front of University Mall in Pensacola.
The UN Commission on Population and Development just ended their session after some serious debate over the UN’s role in abortion. They agreed to not have a policy that creates a right to an abortion.
I have to agree with Iran’s position here. And this makes the first time I’ve agreed with Iran on anything.
Up until the eleventh hour, the contentious term “sexual and reproductive health and rights” remained in the draft document. Just prior to adoption, Iran took the floor to object to the phrase which has never before been included in any negotiated UN document. Iran stressed that the term remained problematic for a number of delegations and urged the Commission to revert back to previously agreed upon and carefully negotiated language from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action, which is understood not to create any right to abortion.
In an attempt to get consensus, the chairwoman from Mexico suspended the meeting and after twenty minutes, returned to the room and announced that Iran’s proposal would be accepted and that the term “sexual and reproductive health and rights” would be removed from the text. The document was then adopted by consensus.
This news would put the Left in America on their heels, since abortion is the holy sacrament of their practice, and the UN is their most quoted reliable source.
It also says something about just how liberal other countries are when it comes to the subject of abortion. For the Left in America, saying that the rest of the world is on-board with abortion ‘rights’ and we need to catch up with them is pure spin because, obviously, they’re not.
What they don’t know won’t hurt them. Or in this case, what they won’t know won’t hurt them. You probably won’t find news of this UN action in your local paper or on TV. From no major media, here are two accounts of the UN Commission’s action.
Who knew that schools were such big profit centers? Apparrently, the Bush-Kennedy education bill that doubled the level of government spending on education worked so well in generating federal revenue and creating jobs that President Obama wants to double it again. That must be the reason this was in the ‘economic’ stimulus bill.
The first round of school dollars from the economic stimulus law is going to states this week.
Public schools will get an unprecedented amount of money – double the education budget under President George W. Bush – from the stimulus law over the next two years.
